On May 18, 2002, Carlos “South Park Mexican” Coy was convicted of sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl.

The jury spent eight hours deliberating before returning the guilty verdict.

Coy, 31, faces up to life in prison. Jurors began considering evidence in the sentencing portion of his trial on May 20.

The sentencing phase has been marked with controversy and confrontation in and out of court.

Prosecutors are hoping to send Coy to prison for life and have so far brought in eight women who testified that they had sex with him when they were 12, 13 and 14 years old.

Four of the women testified Monday (May 20) in the punishment phase of Coy's trial.

A 14-year-old girl testified that she had sex with the rap musician back in February, when Coy was out on bond for the case he was just convicted.
The girl told jurors that she got Coy's telephone number from a friend, and then called him.

"He asked what I looked like, so I told him," she said. "Then he asked how old I was. I said, '14.'"

The girl said that Coy and his friends then came to pick up her and her friend at 3 a.m., and then drove them directly to a motel.

"Me and Carlos were kissing, and he gave me hickeys all over my neck as we drove to the motel," she said.

She testified that Coy's friend then got them a room, and then Coy gave the driver $100 and told him to come back in an hour.

"He started taking off his clothes," she said. "He asked me to take mine off, so I did, and we had intercourse."

On Monday, a young woman who gave birth at 14 to Coy's son testified Monday that the rap musician offered to marry her, but her parents did not approve.

"My family didn't want me to have anything to do with him," she said of Coy.

It was her first sexual relationship, she said, and the couple neither used nor discussed birth control. At the time, he was about 22 and she was 13.

Asked by prosecutor Lisa Andrews if Coy knew her age at the time, the woman said she wasn't sure. But she said he sometimes picked her up at the middle
school where she attended seventh grade.

Although the woman sued Coy two years ago for $28,000 in back child support, she said Coy had provided for her financially and emotionally since their son was born. "If I needed something, he would get it. Whenever I needed something, he was there for me and my son."

Family, friends and fans of the rapper have been rallied with signs of support for him outside the courthouse.

Coy’s common law wife, Gina Acosta, got into a heated exchange with one of his former business partners. Extra officers were called out to calm a dispute that started with pushing and shoving in the courthouse and resumed on the street.

Acosta testified on behalf of her husband.

"My husband is an innocent man," said Gina Acosta. "All these people that are after him. It's just a motive: Money, money, money."

A heated exchange also occurred outside the Harris County Courthouse between the family of the nine-year old victim whom Coy has been convicted of molesting, and Coy’s family. The family of the victim wants Coy to receive the maximum sentence, while Coy's family believes he was wrongfully convicted and should not be sent to prison.

Members of both families screamed at each other in front of shocked onlookers. The argument broke out shortly after the trial was dismissed before the Memorial Day weekend.

"We want to see justice done," said a family member of the victim. "We want to see justice done."


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