By Shayna Jacobs
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — Jurors heard opening statements Monday in the trial of two East Village police officers charged with raping a drunk 27-year-old woman who they were supposedly helping get home.
Partners Kenneth Moreno, 43, and Franklin Mata, 28, are accused of taking advantage of the alleged victim in her 506 E. 13th St. apartment.
Attorneys for the officers have argued the woman was too intoxicated to remember significant portions of that evening. She was partying with friends in Park Slope but could not recall how much she drank or how she got home, they said.
Prosecutors allege the officers used their positions of authority to gain entry to the woman's apartment four times that evening and then use her for sex while she was incapacitated.
Moreno allegedly had sex with the woman while Mata stood guard, but both are charged with rape, burglary, official misconduct and other offenses.
They face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
