June 18, 2000
lomeTbwn COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK Ulestlani) (Dbserwr Your hometown newspaper serving Westland for 36 years aW ^aw Sunday, June 18, 2000 hometownnewspapers.net 75C Volume 36 Number 5 Wastlang, MteNoan OeOOo HomeTown Communicator* Natwof«4t Glad you're my dad Victim feared for life • In emotional testimony Thursday, a woman described a brutal assault in Westland. Charges include attempted murder. BY DAHHELL CLEM 8TAWWWITO dcIea>Ao«JtoiB««oiUBUiet Raped, beaten and crawling on soggy ground in a dark, wooded area of West- land, a 48-year-old woman feared she was going to be killed when her attack er got into his pickup truck and started aurr Pacma n ft* MA*UY the engine. THE WEEK "To myself I said, 'He's going to run Thanksl Above, Valerie over me with his truck/ "the victim Poma, 2% of Westland testified Thursday. "I thought he was holds the picture frame she going to kill me because of the blows f^Wmmmg^Lwdf made for her dad, David, and the strikes and the way he was' for Father's Day at the beating me. I thought, This is it.'" Westland library this past Instead, she said, her attacker drove off after he forced her to perform oral MONDAY week. With Valerie in the sex, raped her inside his truck, and photo when she was a baby beat and kicked her so brutally that, is older sister Melissa. At she still winced in pain Thursday from City Hall: The Westland right, Darcy Vines, 5, of broken vertebrae and ribs she suffered City Council will meet 7 Westland works on the pic May 29.
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