The sexual battery victim sounded distraught and was hard to understand when she called her father after reportedly being raped.

The 18-year-old woman's father testified Wednesday in Huron County Common Pleas Court. He received a call from his daughter, who was using her best friend's cell phone, at 3:25 a.m. Dec. 29, 2010. His daughter had been playing Beer Pong with her best friend, the suspect, Cory N. Puder, and Puder's best friend.

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Puder, 23, of 941 Jarvis Road, Wakeman, is charged with two counts of sexual battery in connection with sexually assaulting the 18-year-old college student who had been drinking. Puder, a Marine, was on leave and the victim was home during Christmas break.

Some time after the victim took the stand, Huron County Prosecutor Russell Leffler requested she identify Puder. Tears welled up in her eyes as she refused to look toward the defendant.

After a lengthy pause, Leffler asked the victim if she would say what Puder was wearing.

She didn't turn her head. Crying, she very quickly glanced to the other side of the courtroom, looked back at the prosecutor and said Puder was wearing a purple shirt.

The father told Leffler about how his daughter sounded during the phone call.

"She was sobbing, almost uncontrollably. (It was) almost hard to understand her," the father said.

His daughter then told him she'd been raped.

The victim, now 19, told her friend a similar story. The victim said she fell asleep on a couch in the living room while the group played Beer Pong in the kitchen because she didn't want to drink any more.

"I was tired of drinking. ... I just couldn't drink anymore," she said.

When Leffler asked her what she remembered happening next, she recalled hearing Puder saying her name "vaguely," but she was concentrating more on sleeping.

Next, she said she woke up on her back next to the couch with her pants and underpants pulled down.

"He was over me. ... His pants were pulled down," the victim said.

"I yelled, 'What are you doing?,'" she said. "He jumped back like he was shot."

Puder leaned toward her to pull her pants back up, she said, but she told him not to touch her.

"He pulled my underwear up for me and I told him to get away," she said.

A few minutes later, she walked to the room where her best friend and her boyfriend -- also Puder's best friend -- were, but she said she didn't completely pull her pants for some reason.

"My pants were halfway down my thighs," the victim said.

"I was asleep. He took advantage of me. I don't know if that's coercing," the victim told Puder's attorney, Ed Rhode. "It was something you don't forget."

The victim's best friend also testified Wednesday.

She said her friend came into the room where she and her boyfriend were after the incident.

"Her pants were down. ... She was crying," said the victim's best friend, who also testified that her friend's zipper and belt buckle were undone.

The friend said she tried to get the victim to talk about what happened, but she wouldn't talk much until the boyfriend left the room to talk to Puder.

"I asked her if she was raped and she said, 'Yes,'" the friend said.

She said she later heard her boyfriend tell Puder "it was better that he leave." The friend also said she saw Puder fully clothed after the alleged incident and didn't see any scratches on her friend's face.

While waiting for the victim's father to arrive, the friend said she and her boyfriend didn't press the victim for details, but tried to console her.

Huron County Sheriff's Lt. Annette McLaughlin, who is now retired, testified Tuesday that Puder wasn't at the apartment building when she arrived about 3:45 a.m. The victim's father had arrived 10 to 20 minutes after his daughter called. He called the sheriff's office soon after he got there.

"She had an odor of alcohol about her body," the father said, adding that his daughter seemed to be intoxicated.

At the direction of McLaughlin, the father took his daughter to Fisher-Titus Medical Center so she could be evaluated. Because no sexual assault nurse examiner (aka SANE nurse) was available, the father took his daughter to Firelands Regional Medical Center in Sandusky.

"I didn't see any injuries," said SANE nurse Lisa Haley. "Her hair was well kept."

The victim's friend and crime scene investigators said they didn't see any signs of a struggle in the living room where the couch was. The friend and victim said there had been no flirting with Puder before the incident.

One or two more state's witnesses might testify today.