Emotional witnesses recall alleged abuses.

Byline: Rebecca Nolan The Register-Guard

A woman who says she was raped by a Eugene police officer when she was 19 years old described the alleged attack Tuesday in emotional testimony in Lane County Circuit Court.

The woman, now 23, wept as she recounted the details in the ongoing trial of Roger Eugene Magana. Her husband became distraught and had to leave the courtroom.

"I was telling him I didn't want to," the woman told the jury. "He wouldn't stop."

The woman was one of three alleged victims who took the stand Tuesday. Testimony is expected to continue at 9 a.m. today.

Magana, 41, is being tried on a total of 52 charges. He's accused of sexually abusing more than a dozen women during his eight years as a Eugene police officer.

Throughout the trial, the prosecution has used cellular phone records, officer work records, dispatch logs and computer keystroke audits to back up the women's stories and build a time line for Magana's alleged misdeeds.

The former officer disputes the women's allegations.

The young woman said she met Magana in 2000 at a party at the home of one of his relatives. She had been drinking, and he offered to take her for a cup of coffee and drive her home, she said.

Instead, he took her to a parking lot at the Eugene Airport where he allegedly grabbed her head and forced her to perform oral sex, the woman testified. She resisted, and at one point got out of his pickup truck. He threatened to arrest her for underage drinking - even though she got the alcohol from members of his own family, she said.

"Who are they going to believe, a 19-year-old drunk or a police officer?" he allegedly told the woman.

He then drove her back to her car and she had no option but to drive home drunk, she testified.

About a week later, Magana called and said he was coming to her apartment, she said. Despite her protests that she had to go to work, the officer entered her home, checked the rooms for other people, and took her to the bedroom, where the woman says he raped her.

Another woman, 48, testified Tuesday that Magana groped her and coerced her into performing oral sex, months after he responded to a domestic violence call at her home in 2000. She said he promised her protection and help with legal issues in exchange for the act. Her roommate testified that the woman was terrified of the officer, who would call her and allegedly demand that she meet him places. He also came by the house a half-dozen times, the man said.

The woman sought advice from an attorney, who she said told her not to bother fighting the Eugene Police Department.

A third woman, well-known to police, said Magana stopped her on the street one night in 1998 and told her she was wanted on a warrant.

Magana told her to meet him near the railroad tracks in the Whiteaker neighborhood, where he picked her up in his patrol car. He drove her off the road and demanded oral sex, she said.

"I started crying and asked to be let go," she testified. "He said he couldn't do that or he would lose his job."

The woman, 30, eventually complied. She said she was afraid for her life.

She later told another Eugene officer, Jerry Webber, that still another woman was regularly performing sex acts with Magana to get out of warrant arrests. Webber testified Tuesday that he confronted Magana, but the officer denied the accusation and said the woman was spreading the same rumor about Webber. Webber said Magana told him the woman had since written him a letter thanking him for helping her kick her drug habit.

Webber also told Magana's supervisor of the woman's allegations, but nothing ever came of it, he said.