DiMuccio

In a small house on a lonely stretch of road in Harrisville, a man tortured and raped a friend of nearly 20 years and held him against his will for several weeks last winter, even tying him up in a trailer in the woods when the friend wanted to get away, according to indictments filed this week by a Providence County grand jury.

Domenic R. DiMuccio Jr., a 43-year-old truck-driver, has been indicted on 22 charges, including 5 counts of first-degree sexual assault, 11 counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, 5 counts of simple assault and 1 charge of kidnapping.

The victim, now 35, accused DiMuccio of beating him with an ax handle, a flashlight and boots, stabbing him with a fork, smashing a light over his head, slashing him with a meat cleaver and screwdriver, threatening him with a chain saw and shoving a running shower hose into his mouth. The man said that DiMuccio repeatedly sexually assaulted him over a period of several weeks and forced him to drink his urine. (The Journal does not identify victims of sexual assault.)

And, the victim told the Burrillville police that when he wanted to leave, DiMuccio allegedly handcuffed him and duct-taped his eyes and mouth, and left him tied up overnight in a trailer in the woods, according to an affidavit filed in District Court, Providence.

“I felt like I wasn’t going to come out of there alive,” the victim told the Burrillville police.

DiMuccio is scheduled to be arraigned on the indictments on Dec. 17 at Providence County Superior Court. He has been held at the Adult Correctional Institutions without bail since his arrest in February. Over the last 14 years, DiMuccio has been arrested on a number of charges, including assault and disorderly conduct, but most were not prosecuted.

The alleged physical and sexual assaults, which the attorney general’s office said began last December and ended in early February, were discovered by the police when the victim was taken to Rhode Island Hospital by his mother on Feb. 7.

When he spoke to Burrillville police detectives from his hospital bed, the man’s head was disfigured and swollen, his left eye forced closed, and glass was still embedded in his scalp.

The man said in the affidavit that he’d known DiMuccio for 20 years, but the friendship became violent just a few days after he moved into DiMuccio’s house at 295 Sherman Farm Rd. The attacks were spurred by DiMuccio’s drinking and ignited by small things, such as DiMuccio demanding to see a television program, the victim told the police.

The first time he was assaulted, the victim said in an affidavit, DiMuccio shoved him into a bathroom mirror, hit him with an ax handle and then dragged him into the shower and turned on the cold water. The victim said DiMuccio wore a yellow rain suit and used a chain saw to cut the aluminum casing of the shower as an example of what he could do to his body, according to an affidavit. The victim said in the affidavit that DiMuccio told him he was wearing the rain suit for a reason: “He kept telling me that my blood wouldn’t get all over him if he cut into me.”

The victim said the beatings continued. When he told DiMuccio that he was going to move out, DiMuccio became violent, the affidavit said. DiMuccio bound him with plastic ties and handcuffs, duct-taped his eyes and mouth, and tied him up in a trailer in the woods overnight, according to the affidavit.

“I had to tell him that I wouldn’t leave,” the victim said in the affidavit. “I had to tell him whatever he wanted to hear to get him off me.”

amilkovi@projo.com