A 22-year-old Lawrence woman was frightened and bleeding severely from her crotch area when she was found in a car that police stopped one night last October, according to testimony today in Douglas County District Court.
"She had significant injuries," Lawrence police officer Robert Neff said.
Officers found blood on the car's back seat where the woman had been sitting, and they saw that blood was dripping from her pants onto the pavement as she was helped from the car, Neff said.
Neff testified at the start of a preliminary hearing for Matthew P. Jaeger, 22, who faces several charges for allegedly attacking the woman at her Lawrence apartment on Oct. 9 and then forcing her into his car. Neff was one of several officers who responded to a report of a disturbance at an apartment complex in the 1200 block of George Court.
A car matching the description of one seen leaving the complex was stopped by officers several blocks away. The woman was sitting in the back seat with a man who officers identified as Jaeger. She sat with her knees together and her hands holding her crotch, Neff said.
The woman refused to respond or get out of the car despite several requests, Neff said. Instead, the woman often glanced over at Jaeger, he said.
"She looked extremely frightened of him," Neff said.
Police were able to help the woman to an ambulance and take her to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Medical staff at the hospital were stunned when they saw the damage that had been inflicted on the woman's vagina, Neff said.
During cross-examinations by Carl Cornwell, Jaeger's attorney, the driver of the car said he was trying to take the woman to the hospital. He said Jaeger also wanted the woman taken to the hospital.
The driver, Evan Carroll, said he and Jaeger had gone to the woman's apartment after a night of drinking. Carroll said there was a struggle in the apartment between the woman and Jaeger and that Jaeger forced the woman into the car.
Testimony this morning revealed that Jaeger and the woman had a rocky relationship at the time of the incident and that another man was with her the night Jaeger went to her apartment. That man fled after Jaeger allegedly broke out the apartment's front window and climbed in.
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ksdivakat (anonymous) says…
To bad he cant receive the same justice as he imposed on her! What a jerk! I hope they fry his a$$!
smitty (anonymous) says…
Still want to know how this driver(Evan Carroll) is fairing on charges against him. If there are even any charges and why?
Tab (anonymous) says…
Does anyone know how the victim is doing?
blahblahblah (anonymous) says…
check this out...
http://www.lawrence.com/blogs/nuckoll...
1029 (anonymous) says…
What?! Why does this article leave out the fact that the car was travelling AWAY from the hospital when it was pulled over?
Confrontation (anonymous) says…
I hope this pig's money from Daddy isn't enough to buy him the case. It just disgusts me that more and more men are torturing women and getting away with it. Thank goodness someone took the time to call the cops and get a vehicle description. If not, this poor woman likely wouldn't be alive to have a court date.
geniusmannumber1 (anonymous) says…
Look, not to detract from the atrocity of this particular situation, but
"It just disgusts me that more and more men are torturing women and getting away with it."
Do you have anything to substantiate this statement?
blue73harley (anonymous) says…
"That man fled after Jaeger allegedly broke out the apartment's front window and climbed in."
Substitute "spineless coward" for "man" and I believe the sentence would be more accurate. I hope the gutless wonder at least called 911 to report the disturbance.
tvc (anonymous) says…
logic, please do not insult vaginas!
1029 (anonymous) says…
If I was at some girls house and her "ex-boyfriend" showed up in a rage and broke in, I might take off if I had the chance. Maybe I had just met her. For all I know, maybe they hadn't really broken up and she was just using me to get back at him.
Perhaps she insisted that the guy run away because she thought Jaeger would kill him. Who knows. I don't know that you could necessarily come to the conclusion that one is a "spineless coward" without knowing the exact situation that was occurring. However, if the girl was terrified and anticipated that Jaeger was coming to physically harm her, and the guy took off simply to save himself despite her pleas for protection, then I agree that he is a "spineless coward".
OldEnuf2BYurDad (anonymous) says…
"-the "other guy" that fled may take some heat for leaving - but jaeger is nuts and had a knife:.tough call"
No, I'm thinking I'd run, too. That guy just would have gotten killed, and she woulda been attacked anyway. It's not like they were married, or that the guy even cared for her. I'm into chivalry... but I'm not into dying for nothing.
If he really cared about the girl (at some point in their relationship), he'd show it now by admitting his crimes and doing his time. Going to trial will just traumatize her all over. We'll see if he's a junior weenie or a major weenie by how he does/doesn't come clean.
notajayhawk (anonymous) says…
OldEnuf2BYurDad (Anonymous) says:
"If he really cared about the girl (at some point in their relationship), he'd show it now by admitting his crimes and doing his time."
I'm thinking if he really cared abut the girl he might not have carved her up in the first place.
"Going to trial will just traumatize her all over. We'll see if he's a junior weenie or a major weenie by how he does/doesn't come clean."
The betting is now open - and early returns have the odds at 100,000:1 in favor of major weenie.
mommaeffortx2 (anonymous) says…
makes you just scream and yell. what the heck is wrong with people.
linswri (Lindsey Taylor) says…
These are the kinds of actions that make me lose faith in humanity. My prayers are with the young girl, she must (still) be going through absolute h*ll.
JaegerOJIkeTurner_NoDifference (anonymous) says…
Poor Jaeger had to leave his Malibu digs to make it for the preliminary hearing. Daddy's high-priced lawyer (the same Carl Cornwell representing Edwin Hall, the Olathe man that kidnapped and murdered an Overland Park teenager that disappeared from a Target store) thinks it is unjust the monstrous Jaeger faces aggravated kidnapping! Here's to hoping Jaeger's money is for naught, and Cornwell's representation proves to be futile. May justice be served.
gerbilsniper (anonymous) says…
JaegerOJIkeTurner_NoDifference (Anonymous) says:
(the same Carl Cornwell representing Edwin Hall, the Olathe man that kidnapped and murdered an Overland Park teenager that disappeared from a Target store)
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allegedly kidnapped and killed.
somebodynew (anonymous) says…
OK, is it just me, or is my internet so slow that this story is not updated. I just watched Channel 9 News who did a complete story including the victim testifying (protecting her idenity BTW) and the fact he was bound over for trial.
Why is that not on the LJW with an update from the 1:00 version of the story. Pretty lame in my book.
Pywacket (anonymous) says…
Okay, Marion. Very reasonable comments. If we hold back the dogs until conviction, though, is it okay with you that we sincerely wish upon him in prison: that overdue lynching, personal violations of varied and imaginative design, mental and emotional persecution, and every other sort of jailhouse retribution his fellow inmates take it upon themselves to carry out upon his person?
Don't spend a lot of time thinking your answer through--I plan to wish these things upon the soulless monster with our without your approval.
LogicSound04 says, "Since this Jaeger guy seems like a giant vagina, its only fair that we exact the same treatment upon his whole body that he brought upon this poor woman's privates."
What?! Misogynist much? You wish the same things on this guy that the rest of us do, but is there not a way to express this w/o insulting all of womankind? Since when is "vagina" a synonym for "piece-of-trash, depraved, vicious, vindictive, immoral, scumbag"?
I await any possible explanation you might have to offer. (Hint: "I was drunk/stoned/half asleep when I typed that" might--possibly--fly, but it's doubtful.)
Pywacket (anonymous) says…
Sounds like justice to me!
srj (anonymous) says…
Just a preliminary hearing. Stupid qustion, but will the victim testify?
And you know Evan Carroll will get pinned as the attacker by Jaeger.
I hope she is okey. Women just need to to leave before abuse gets this bad, and men need to realize to leave before things get out of hand and they end up in Lancing with new "bunkmates"
JaegerOJIkeTurner_NoDifference (anonymous) says…
Cornwell is not nearly worthy of praise as Marion claims--he is afterall, trying to pin the blame on the innocent (I know this as fact) bystander who happened to be at the apartment (as an invited guest by the not-yet-at-the-time victim). Said bystander then didn't merely "flee," but made sure not to be murdered (a likely consequence, if you happen to know Jaeger, which I do) and then got the victim's brother (who lived just a short distance away).
Not sure if Cornwell will continue trying to transfer blame on the innocent, as Mental Lightwight Number One (Jaeger) slipped up recently, causing doubt to be cast on his already dubious account, and Mental Lightwight Number Two (Carroll) is not exactly corroborating Jaeger's original claims, either.
I realize your motivation, Marion, but matters are rarely as tidy as your articulate musing on the behalf of Cornwell aimed--especially in the cases of trial lawyers. Consider me still unsympathetic to their dealings with the devils of society. Even if Cornwell is just that concerned with the sanctity of our system, the boatloads of Jerry Jaeger's money can't be discouraging him.