MARTINEZ — The three women and one girl who testified in a 25-count felony case against Louis Ray Coleman all come from different backgrounds. None of them know each other.

But they do share one thing in common: a very similar story about the horrors they allegedly suffered at Coleman’s hands. While details differ, the stories have a common theme: He used force, fear or deception to get them alone, then repeatedly sexually assaulted them while forcing them to ingest alcohol or drugs.

Coleman is charged with kidnapping, raping and trafficking two of the alleged victims during a multi-day period in June 2016. The other two women have been called to testify as corroborating witnesses.

But according to the defense, Coleman is just a charmer with an unlucky habit of mistaking 12-year-old girls for adults. His attorney, Adam Burke, said the adult alleged victim was actually cheating on her husband with Coleman, and made up a kidnapping story because it was the only feasible lie she could concoct.

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The other alleged victim, who says Coleman kidnapped her off the streets at gunpoint when she was 12, was “troubled,” a “runaway” and “the worst type of liar,” Burke said, adding that he felt sorry for the girl. He described her as a drug user and “the type of person who’s willing to do drugs and have sex with drug dealers,” like Coleman.

Prosecutor Diana Weiss, though, asked jurors what the odds were that four complete strangers would all accuse the same man of raping them, independently of one another.

“Either that man is the unluckiest man in the history of the universe, or in fact he is a monster,” Weiss told jurors.

Coleman faces life in prison if convicted of all counts, which include kidnapping, rape, sodomy, forcible lewd acts, human trafficking and stealing a car. Many of the charges carry a special allegation for use of a firearm. On top of that, Coleman has a prior conviction for a sex crime against a 12-year-old girl who testified during trial that Coleman sexually attacked her and forced her to drink alcohol 22 years ago.

Coleman testified in his own defense, admitting to sexual contact with both alleged victims but insisting he didn’t rape anyone. Burke said one of the alleged victims, the 12-year-old he’s accused of raping last year, admitted on the stand she’d lied and said she was 16 or 17.

Burke encouraged jurors to find Coleman guilty of three lesser offenses of illegal sex with a person under 14 years old, and to find him not guilty on the other counts.

“He admitted he had sex with a 12-year-old…why would he admit those things to you unless he was being truthful?” Burke said, later adding, “No one did anything they didn’t want to do.”

Weiss, though, said police recovered ample evidence that both victims had been raped, beaten and suffered injuries. Coleman created a world of “fear, violence and exploitation” to control his victims, who were forced to stay in the backyard of an abandoned house in Richmond during the ordeals, she said.