“He came to our dorm room and he was wrestling one of my dorm mates. I pretended as if I was sleeping. He then started to choke me and asked me to tap out if I wanted him to stop. I could not as I passed out. I woke up after a while‚” the young man said.
The young man said his dormitory mates told him he had passed out for a while.
“He also choked another dorm mate‚ who pretended to pass out. This happened on the same night‚” the young man said.
The third witness‚ a 16-year-old boy‚ also described how Rex would walk past him‚ and then put him in a headlock.
“I would struggle to breathe‚” the boy said of the incident which occurred during 2016.
He also said he had seen Rex watching pornographic videos with some of the boarders.
The fourth witness‚ who is now 16‚ described how in 2016 Rex had massaged his back and later put his mouth on the boy’s genitals.
He also accused Rex of grabbing his genitals on more than 20 different occasions at the school.
In addition‚ Rex had choked him on four occasions in 2016‚ he told the court.
The case continues on Thursday.
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