Marquis ‘Kees’ Monte Rex Mack: Canberra rapist who treated woman ‘as a piece of live pornography’ learns fate

A man who treated his rape victim like a “piece of live porn” and wrote lewd messages on her with a permanent marker has been convicted.

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 apprentice carpenter and rugby player was convicted by Chief Justice Lucy McCallum in the ACT High Council on tuesday after he previously pleaded guilty to two charges of sexual intercourse without consent and one charge of threatening to distribute an intimate image.

“Every time a woman is treated as a sexual object or labeled as the property of a man, it impoverishes the community,” said Chief Justice Lucy McCallum, the Canberra Times reported.

The nightmarish attack on the woman began shortly after she met Mack, then 19, in a parking lot near the bar in December 2021.

The court heard the woman had hesitantly agreed to sexual acts with Mack, but had then physically and verbally withdrawn her consent.

Mack then raped the woman and wrote on her body with a permanent marker.

Mack ‘tag[ed]’ the woman in black pen, writing the following words: ‘Kees was here on 12/12/21 01:39’, ‘Kees is dad’, his phone number and his social media accounts.

Marquis ‘Kees’ Monte Rex Mack met the woman in 2021 at Braddon’s Hopscotch bar (pictured) and lured her to a car park where he raped her

Chief Justice McCallum called the writing a cruel act that shows how Mack views women “as possessions or conquests,” and found it “so hilarious that he had to show it to his buddies.”

“As if that were an excuse for his use of her body as a sexual object that he could tag and share,” the judge said.

‘Everyone has the right to choose how and under what conditions they have sex.’

The court heard Mack repeatedly told the victim to be “quiet” during the attack and only ended the attack when other people entered the car park.

He later told police he had the woman’s “100 percent consent.”

However, Mack had captured the brutal attack on footage that showed the victim repeatedly urging him to stop.

At one point, the woman demanded that Mack stop filming her. She said, “What the f**k are you doing?”

He replied, ‘Oh, trust me. It’s not going anywhere.’

“Just take it easy, no one will know it’s you.”

On his social media, Marquis ‘Kees’ Monte Rex Mack likes to tag himself with a permanent marker

The apprentice carpenter (pictured) filmed the horrific attack and wrote ‘Kees was here 12/12/21 1:39 am’, ‘Kees is daddy’, his phone number and his social media accounts on the woman’s body

The victim said she was not only in pain from the horrific rape – which included oral sex and condomless sex – but was also forced to relive the ordeal as she removed Mack’s text from her body.

“I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror without seeing disgusting messages plastered all over my body, as if I were a piece of property,” the woman said in a harrowing victim impact statement.

‘The most painful moment of that night was the excessive scrubbing of my skin to remove 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 has multiple photos of himself on his social media account with derogatory language written in black marker, posted in the same month as the rape.

The chief justice ruled that Mack “placed the pleasure and entertainment of himself and his comrades above all else.”

“The perpetrator treated the victim, whom he had only met that evening, essentially as a piece of live porn,” she said.

‘…The perpetrator must assume that he knew that the victim did not consent to him.’

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 a permanent marker

The chief justice also ruled that Mack failed to understand the full consequences of his crimes, as he only admitted that his actions had a “negative impact” on the victim.

Mack was sentenced to three years in prison, of which he must serve two years before he is eligible for parole in May 2026.

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