Brother Rice Teacher Demanded Unprotected Sex: Lawyer

A prostitute accused of brutally stabbing more than a dozen times Brother Rice teacher Al Filan swiped at her tears while faced with photos of the crime scene in court Tuesday.

Defense attorney for Alisha Walker told jurors of a sex exchange gone awry, a teacher who felt duped, and what the woman called a desperate act of self-defense.

Alisha Walker, now 22, and another woman visited Filan’s home Jan. 18, 2014, after he contacted them through Backpage.com. It was Walker’s third encounter with Filan—a man she called a “really good trick,” who was “always just really sweet,” and had paid her $500-$600 on past occasions—but the other woman’s first.

Filan became enraged over being ”cat-fished” when the second woman’s appearance didn’t match her photos, argued Walker’s attorney Patrick O’Byrne. After an argument, Filan negotiated a half-hour of sex with the women for $300, but when he insisted on unprotected and the girls refused, he demanded his money back. The verbal confrontation devolved into a physical one, Walker told detectives during a videotaped interrogation played in court Tuesday.

She told of how he “punched me in the face and hit me a couple of times ... cussing me out the whole time,” reports the Chicago Sun-Times. He came at her with a knife, which Walker grabbed and turned on him, stabbing him “I don’t know how many times,” though police would later say it was 14. He was alive when they fled the scene, she told detectives in the interrogation, later seen sobbing uncontrollably at the news that Filan was dead.

Orland Park police found his body several days later, amidst a blood-soaked scene of ”her dark knee-high boots, two cell phones and a peach purse that had a bloody $50 bill,” police said. Prosecutors say she did “absolutely nothing” to save his life, in such a panic to leave that her high-heel shoes tracked his blood through the scene as she left him behind.

It was the first full day of proceedings for the jury of nine men and five women: an assistant principal at a middle school in the southwest suburbs, an accountant, a commercial airline pilot, a printer and an elementary school teacher.

Cook County Circuit Court Judge James Obbish told jurors he expects deliberations to begin as soon as Friday.

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