An 81-year-old Brooklyn woman has recounted the moment her grand-nephew raped her at the man’s trial in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The octogenarian who allowed her grand-nephew, Jewell Powell, 36, to live on her couch for about a month in 2019, said things changed on June 13, 2019 when he raped her.
“He was my favorite,” she testified. “I hate him.”
“I was in my bedroom watching TV. I got up to go to the kitchen. He was there naked. He grabbed me,” she recalled.
She added that Powell dragged her to her bedroom and raped her adding that he got furious when she tried to fight him off.
“When I kicked him, he put me back on the bed, put his hands on my throat and said, ‘Next time you do that I’ll smother you,’” she said.
Afterward, Powell gave his great-aunt a knife and told her to kill him, the woman told the court. When she refused to, he threatened to kill himself, she said.
Powell was arrested two days later after the woman reported to her grandson and daughter. He has been held at Rikers Island on $70,000 bail.