BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. -- A girl was in court Tuesday to face the man who is charged with raping her -- a man who is also accused in the rape of another woman and the murder of a Boca Raton nanny.

The girl, who is now 16, was 14 years old at the time of the alleged rape. She said she had met Jerry Wiggins in 2003, when they lived in the same apartment complex in Coral Springs. She said Wiggins took her to an apartment where he overpowered her and raped her seven times throughout the night.

The teen, who cried throughout her testimony, said that when Wiggins was preparing to leave for work the next day, she was able to escape. She said she immediately went home, told her mother what happened, and called police.

Wiggins was arrested last January in the rape of a Charlotte, N.C., woman. The woman picked Wiggins, whom she knew as "Jay," out of a lineup.

Investigators said DNA from the Charlotte rape matched DNA in the murder of nanny Monica Rivera-Veldizen. She disappeared from a Boca Raton Publix on West Palmetto Park Road Jan. 2, 2004. Her body was found three days later in some bushes a short distance from the home where she was living and working.

The DNA from the North Carolina rape also matched DNA in the rape of the Coral Springs girl.

Police said Wiggins was on the run after the alleged Coral Springs rape because when the girl called, she gave police the wrong apartment number. By the time they figured out they had the wrong address, Wiggins took off before officers arrived at the apartment.