According to reports published in the Daily News, Nayef Al-Mutairy picked up the old man at a Manhattan gay bar in February 2009. Prosecutors said the victim invited Al-Mutairy back to his apartment where the burglary and the rape allegedly took place.

Reports also claim that Al-Mutairy and the victim were both under the influence of alcohol when the defendant beat him with a hanger, stole $60 and three watches, and raped him twice. In addition, the defendant allegedly forced the man to go to an ATM machine and withdraw more than $1,000.

The reports also said that Al-Mutairy cried when he was found not guilty of charges of kidnapping, burglary and sex abuse. Al-Mutairy’s lawyer claimed he was just a gigolo and the case amounted to “rough sex for money between two consenting adults.”

It was a matter of a consensual S&M (Sadomasochism, a form of sexual role-playing) but “something went wrong,” said a juror. Contradictions and vague evidences however discharged Al-Mutairy.

Defense lawyer Henry Asbill said that the 69-year-old victim, who is married, lied to the defendant.

Assistant District Attorney Maxine Rosenthal said the victim was separated from his wife when he was approached by Al-Mutairy outside the Townhouse bar on Feb. 16, 2009.

Rosenthal also told jurors in Manhattan Supreme Court they will hear a phone call confession by Al-Mutairy.

Al-Mutairy told a hearing on April 13 that he is a homosexual and was soliciting sex with the old man when he approached him in the bar.

However, his lawyer claimed that it was just rough sex between two adults who were completely drunk.

Al-Mutairy could have been sentenced to 25 years if charges of burglary, kidnapping and aggravated sexual abuse were proved. Earlier, the court rejected an attempt by the Saudi Embassy to bail him out.

Al-Mutairy threatened the old man not to go to the nightclub again or to the police. The defendant stayed in prison for six months without contacting an attorney or the Saudi Embassy until the news came out in the papers. It is unclear now what will happen to Al-Mutairy, but in cases similar to his case, Saudi students are sent back home and dismissed from the scholarship program.