Victim Details Bogus Mob Ploy

A towing operator was accused of luring a coworker with promises of an initiation, then raping him

The Philadelphia Inquirer

July 26, 2006

By Kathleen Brady Shea

Inquirer Staff Writer

An admitted drug addict testified yesterday in Valley Township District Court that he thought he had received an offer her he couldn’t refuse.

Interested in what he viewed as the “easy way to make money” in the Mafia, he said he agreed to meet his employer, a Coatesville towing operator, for a night of initiation on Sept. 25, 2003, to prove his loyalty.

Instead, the man testified, he became a rape victim of Mark Ethan McFall, who was ordered held for trial yesterday on his fourth set of sexual assault charges involving former employees in Chester County. McFall, 41, of Coatesville, faces charges in a fifth assault in Atlantic County where he waived extradition earlier this month.

Magisterial District Judge Grover Koon dismissed three lesser charges against McFaIl, a former police officer in South Coatesville, after defense attorney Justin J. McShane argued that the statute, of limitations had expired. Assistant District Attorney Andrew M. Rongaus reserved the right to refile them.

The former employee, who was 19 at the time of the alleged assault and had worked for McFall for six days, testified that McFall told him he had mob connections. The man said he believed him because McFall seemed to receive “special treatment” at a Thorndale pizza shop and always had ready cash.

Under cross-examination by McShane, the alleged victim said he did not come forward until late April or May because he feared McFaIl would retaliate.

Asked by McShane why he called McFall in 2004 if he was afraid of him, the man explained that he needed to get out of a rehab program in Nevada and knew he could “manipulate” McFall.

Using an expletive, the alleged victim said, “I wanted to [get] him like he [got] me. He took something from me that I can’t get back.”

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