Convicted Lynn rapist acquitted on additional charges

SALEM – A convicted Lynn felon currently serving a 15-year state prison term for rape was found innocent of a second rape and molestation charges in Salem Superior Court.Brian Emanuel Jr., 31, formerly of 129 Allen Ave., went on trial this week on charges of rape, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 and threats to commit murder arising out of an incident at his Allen Avenue home on Aug. 4, 2008.Jurors deliberated for about one hour Thursday afternoon, acquitting him of all charges.Prosecutors maintained he digitally raped and improperly touched a 22-year-old Lynn woman in his Highlands home.Emanuel took the stand and convinced the jury that he had offered to pay the woman $200 to have sex with him and that when he did not give her the money she got mad and reported the allegations.Attorney John T. Haggerty was his defense lawyer in the case.Judge David A. Lowy presided over the three-day trial.Emanuel was convicted in February of 2009 of raping and brutally beating a woman in his home then at 8 Halford Place in 2007.In that case the then 35-year-old woman testified that it was about 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 6, 2007 when Emanuel picked her up at a rotary in Revere.He offered to pay her money in exchange for sex and she agreed.He then picked up his girlfriend and all three went to his Halford Place for sex.Once inside the home, Emanuel physically abused the victim, striking her with his fists, pulling her by her hair as she begged to go home, but Emanuel refused to let her out of the house, she had testified.At some point he took her into the bathroom, stripped her and then to a bedroom where he forced her to perform oral sex on him and his girlfriend while calling her offensive names.The victim testified at the trial she was held in the home for about three hours before Emanuel drove her back to the rotary in Revere. She then went home and reported the incident to authorities.Emanuel has a criminal record dating back to age 18 and has other convictions of assaults on young women in 2001 and 2003.