THE NEW YORK TIMES: A member of the traveling entourage of a Saudi prince was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in prison for the rape of a 26-year-old woman who fell asleep in his room at the Plaza Hotel after a night of barhopping.
During a two-week trial that ended in February, the woman and a friend testified that the man, Mustapha Ouanes, now 61, had introduced himself to them at a bar in Greenwich Village in January 2010. Wearing a finely tailored suit and hat, he seemed harmless, they testified, so they accepted his invitation for an early morning breakfast at the hotel.
After eating, drinking more and smoking hashish, the women fell asleep on the bed in Mr. Ouanes’s hotel room and awoke to find him raping one of them, they said. » | Russ Buettner | Thursday, June 07, 2012
