MANHATTAN — The victim in the alleged rape case against Giants legend Lawrence Taylor said she was beaten and coerced into lying about her age by a pimp, the New York Post reported.
The unidentified 16-year-old girl said her alleged pimp, Rasheed Davis, 36, hit her in the face and kicked her before she entered Taylor's Holiday Inn hotel room in Montebello, N.Y. last Thursday.
"I told him I wasn't going to the hotel, and he said, 'You're f---ing this up, it's $300'," the Bronx girl told the Post. "He hit me in the face, so I covered my face."
Taylor was arrested last week and charged with third-degree rape for allegedly having sex with a minor. The underage victim said she told Taylor she was 19 years old.
"He [Davis] told me to tell him my name is Carmen and I'm 19 years old," the victim told the paper. "He [Davis] told me repeatedly and I had to repeat it back to him."
Taylor admitted to Ramapo police that he had sex with the girl for money, according to court documents in the case against Davis. However, the attorney for the Hall-of-Fame linebacker has vehemently denied any claims that Taylor had sex with the girl.
Taylor faces up to five years in prison if convicted of the rape charge and patronizing a prostitute, a misdemeanor.
