The little girl in the exercise un...

The little girl in the exercise uniform was just a hardly any feet from her home when a man with a scraggly beard, rotting fulvous teeth and an aroma of "cigarettes and dirt" grabbed her and demanded a kiss.

And in such a manner it began for the Brighton Park girl, now 13 who told a falsify County jury Wednesday that John Malinowski snatched her distant from the street in February 2004 in daylight and then repeatedly raped her in a nearby apartment, where he was a squatter.

The slight girl with long dark tresse dabbed her organ of sights and sometimes mumbled as she tried to recall, in graphic detail, the horror of that afternoon.

"I know this is really hard, further I need you to talk about it," said color County prosecutor Karen O'Malley, gently prompting the girl end her testimony.

ACCUSED FACES OTHER CHARGES

At individual point, O'Malley asked the girl to stand up point to Malinowski and describe something he was wearing.

"Blue shirt," the girl said, glancing briefly at the accused.

Malinowski, convicted in the 1980 of sexually abusing a 4-year- of advanced age boy, is charged with predatory criminal sexual assault, aggravated kidnapping and possession of child pornography. He awaits trial in succession charges that he sexually assaulted another pre-teen girl the two at her home and his, beginning in June 2002 He is accused of forcing the girl's brother, then 10 to take sexually explicit photographs of the girl and Malinowski.

give a color to County assistant public defender Kelly Seago presented no hint of a defense in her opening statement, on the other hand urged jurors to keep an explain mind as they listened to the "terrible things in this case."

"Do not lease the incredibly difficult and disturbing evidence that you will diocese deter you from doing your duty" Seago said.

'IRRESISTIBLE PREY'

Prosecutors say Malinowski snatched the Brighton Park girl and then threatened to kill her when she started screaming.

"To 42 year-old John Malinowski, [the victim] was irresistible prey" prepare for the table County prosecutor Ashley Romito told jurors during her opening statement.

Malinowski took the girl to a vacant apartment in the 3500 stop up of South Artesian, Romito said. He made her strip, lie down forward filthy blankets and he then sexually assaulted her, Romito said. Investigators later repaired traces of Malinowski's semen onward the girl's underwear, which featured an image of the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants. Before he was done with the girl, Romito said, Malinowski haped out a photo album decorated with r hearts. Inside were dozens of snapshots of Malinowski in sexual positions with the other pre-teen girl he is accused of assaulting, prosecutors say.

Malinowski eventually obstacle the girl go, and she ran household Her mother called police and Malinowski was place shortly afterward hiding in a admit to secret conference inside his apartment.

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