Victims: Car ride led to rape

HARPER WOODS -- One by one, four school-age girls and women said Dennis Danell Whitsett lured them on separate occasions into his black Lexus, made an unplanned stop at what he said was his house for a cell phone delivery and, within minutes, raped them. Whitsett, 31, of Detroit usually offered to take the girls and young women, who were walking in Detroit during daylight hours, to breakfast, the witnesses testified Thursday in 32-A District Court. In each case, however, Whitsett changed the plan and overpowered them inside the house of a woman with whom he had once lived, the victims said. As he listened to the testimony from the girls and young women, who ranged from 14-22 years old, Whitsett repeatedly shook his head and his family often scoffed.

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