Jack William Kramer on trial for allegedly raping Calgary woman in front of husband

Chilling details of a brutal rape were read aloud in a Calgary courtroom as Jack William Kramer's sexual assault trial got underway Tuesday morning.

Kramer who wasn't arrested until 2014 faces numerous charges including sexual assault with a weapon and forcible confinement.

The alleged victim was the first witness to testify following the prosecutor's opening statement and detailed an hours-long ordeal during which she was raped several times including once in front of her husband by a masked man in their home two decades ago.

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"He said 'step one, I'm going to f**k you in front of your husband ... step two, I'm going to f**k your daughter,'" thewitness whose identity is protected by a publication bansaid she was told by her attacker.

It seems the attacker's plan to sexually assault the victim's 15-year-olddaughter was foiled when he discovered the husband had escaped.

Nearly two decades after the attack,RCMP found Kramer's DNA on duct tape used to bind the woman's husband in the couple's home, according to prosecutor Rosalind Greenwood who made an opening statement to Provincial Court Judge Allan Fradsham.

'Shut thef**kup'

In July 1995, the woman who lived on anacreageon the southwest edge of the city with her common-law husband, daughters and stepson, woke up to find a masked manstanding over her with a knife.

"I thought right then and there we were going to be stabbed," she testified. "I started to scream and kick my legs out of complete fear and he kept telling me to 'shut the f**k up.'"

For the next two and a half hours, the man marched the mother around the family's home and sexually assaulted herwhile her husband was duct taped.

In the basement of the family's home, the woman says her attacker told her, "I'm going to rape you now."

At times during her testimony the woman's anguished voice broke and she wept as she described having to watch the man take her daughter out of her bedroom.

"I was so weak, I'm so ashamed that I couldn't help her," she said. "My poor little daughter."

'You're safe'

The evening had begun as a "regular summer night" for the family. They had eaten dinner, watched a movie and gone to bed, according Greenwood.

Around 12:30 a.m. the couple woke up to the intruder who then bound both with duct tape.

The attacker told the couple that there were people outside the home who would kill them if they tried to escape. At times throughout the ordeal, the man would go outside and shout updates to his accomplices.

But in Greenwood's opening statement she told Fradsham the Crown's theory is that Kramer acted alone.

Eventually, the victim's husband was able to "wriggle free" from the duct tape and ran to a neighbour's for help. The attacker left the home and police arrived.

"You're safe," said one of the first officers on scene to the terrorized woman.

At the centre of this trial will be the identification of the masked man, said Greenwood.

Aside from the duct tape, Greenwood said a witness a strip-mall security guard will place a brown Chevette Scooter that belonged to Kramer's girlfriend's father close to the scene both before the attack and fleeing the area afterwards.

Greenwood and prosecutor Gord Haight will call 22 witnesses throughout the trial.Defence lawyer Allan Fay is representing Kramer.

The trial is set for six weeks but is expected to wrap up in about four.

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