WARREN — A Youngstown man is scheduled to stand trial beginning today on six felony counts involving the sexual assault of three minor females in Warren.

Darll A. Mack Jr., 25, of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is facing three counts of rape that each carries potential life-in-prison sentences, plus three more counts of gross sexual imposition.

Jury selection is expected to begin this afternoon in the Trumbull County Common Pleas courtroom of Judge Cynthia Rice. Court records show the three juvenile victims as well as a Warren police detective and representatives from Trumbull County Children Services and the Akron Children’s Hospital Child Advocacy Center in Boardman are expected to testify.

Mack was indicted secretly on Sept. 1, 2022, by a Trumbull County grand jury. He has been incarcerated in Trumbull County jail since that date in lieu of a $500,000 bond.

The Warren police and Trumbull County sheriff’s office investigated the assaults that allegedly took place in the spring of 2021 in a Warren apartment. The alleged victims are girls who were ages 9, 6 and 4 at the time of the assaults. He is accused of inappropriate touches to the 6-year-old and raping the 4- and 9-year-old, the indictment states.

The state is expected to introduce as evidence the testimony of the young victims as well as statements the defendant made to investigators. The defendant also has submitted to a polygraph examination and those results may or may not be brought up at trial.

If convicted Mack could get a maximum of life in prison. He rejected any prosecutor’s offers for a plea bargain at his last pretrial on March 8, court records show.

A second jury trial is scheduled to start today before Common Pleas Judge Sean O’Brien. Defendant Karindu Mallory, 43, of Williamsburg Street NW, Warren, faces an aggravated robbery charge with a firearm specification. Mallory is accused of holding up a Dollar General store in January 2022.

If convicted, Mallory could face up to 19 1/2 years in prison, including three mandatory years because a firearm was used in the crime.

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