A man who treated his rape victim like a “piece of live pornography” and used a permanent marker to write lewd messages on her has been sentenced.
Rapist Marquis ‘Kees’ Monte Rex Mack will spend at least two years behind bars for the horrific attack on a Canberra woman he met at Braddon’s Hopscotch bar in 2021.
The carpenter’s apprentice and rugby player He was sentenced by Chief Justice Lucy McCallum in the ACT. Supreme Court on Tuesday after he He previously pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent and one of threatening to distribute an intimate image.
“Every time a woman is treated as a sexual object or labelled as a man’s possession, the community is impoverished,” said Chief Justice Lucy McCallum. Canberra weather reported.
The nightmarish attack on the woman began shortly after she agreed to meet Mack, who was 19 at the time, in a parking lot near the bar in December 2021.
The court heard the woman had hesitantly agreed to engage in sexual activity with Mack, but later physically and verbally withdrew her consent.
Mack then raped the woman and wrote on her body with permanent marker.
Using a black pen, Mack “tagged” the woman with the words: “Kees was here 12/12/21 at 1:39am,” “Kees is a dad,” her phone number, and her social media accounts.
Marquis ‘Kees’ Monte Rex Mack (pictured) was jailed for three years on Tuesday
Marquis ‘Kees’ Monte Rex Mack met the woman at Braddon’s Hopscotch pub (pictured) in 2021 and lured her to a car park where he raped her.
Chief Justice McCallum called the writing a cruel act that demonstrated Mack’s view of women “as possessions or conquests,” noting that he “found it so funny that he had to show it to his colleagues.”
“As if that excused his use of her body as a sexual object that he could label and share,” the judge said.
‘Every person has the right to choose the manner and terms in which they engage in sexual relations.’
The court heard Mack repeatedly told the victim to keep quiet during the assault and only stopped the attack when other people entered the car park.
He later told police he “had 100 percent permission” from the woman.
However, Mack had filmed the brutal attack in footage that showed the victim repeatedly telling him to stop.
On one occasion, the woman demanded that Mack stop filming her, saying, “What the hell are you doing?”
He replied, “Oh, trust me. It’s not going anywhere.”
“Relax, no one will know it’s you.”
His social media shows that Marquis ‘Kees’ Monte Rex Mack likes to tag himself with permanent marker.
The apprentice labourer (pictured) filmed the horrific attack and wrote ‘Kees was here 12/12/21 at 1:39am’, ‘Kees is daddy’, his phone number and social media on the woman’s body.
The victim said she was not only in pain from the horrific rape (which included oral sex and bareback sex), but was also forced to relive the ordeal as she removed Mack’s writings from her body.
“I couldn’t look in the mirror without seeing the disgusting writing that was written all over my body as if I were property,” the woman said in a heartbreaking victim impact statement.
‘The most painful moment of that night was excessively rubbing my skin to erase the permanent marker from my chest to my knees.
‘I scrubbed my skin for an hour until the marker was replaced by almost raw skin.’
Disturbingly, Mack’s social media account features several photos of himself tagged with derogatory terms in black marker and posted the same month as the rape.
The chief justice found that Mack had prioritized “the pleasure and entertainment of himself and his companions above all else.”
“The attacker, in fact, treated the victim, whom he had only met that night, as if she were a piece of live pornography,” he said.
“… It must be considered that the aggressor knew that the victim did not give consent.”
Rapist Marquis ‘Kees’ Monte Rex Mack (pictured) will be eligible for parole in just two years after raping a woman and ‘marking’ her body with permanent marker.
The Chief Justice also found that Mack did not understand the full effects of his crimes, admitting only that his actions had a “negative impact” on the victim.
Mack was sentenced to three years in prison, two of which he must serve before being eligible for parole in May 2026.
If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual, domestic or family violence, please contact 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) for help.
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