The rape trial for former State Representative Ted Klaudt resumes tomorrow in Pierre.

Klaudt is accused of tricking two of his former foster daughters into letting him perform vaginal exams on them in a Pierre motel room. The girls thought Klaudt was helping them get into a reproductive egg donation program.

Klaudt doesn't deny lying to the girls, but says his actions technically weren't rape.

A key piece of evidence for the prosecution is a series of emails Ted Klaudt admits to writing in which he pretended to be a fertility clinic agent.

The prosecution believes the emails prove Klaudt coerced one victim into letting him perform those exams.

Through a series of nearly 70 email messages, using the name of supposed fertility clinic agent Terri Linee, Ted Klaudt convinced rape victim A.M. his egg donation exams were legitimate.

Klaudt used Linee's name to detail how he had done exams with other clients in the past. And he uses the woman's name to coach A.M. through the procedures.

After an initial vaginal exam in December 2005 at his home in Walker, Klaudt, or Linee wrote, "It would help if you could relax more. I know it's hard but please try harder to relax for the testing."

A common thread throughout the emails is Klaudt tricking the girl into asking him to do the procedures. Under the Linee name he writes, "He will gladly do it to help you, he said. But he wants you to be the one to ask him for the help."

Later, Klaudt uses that identity to ask A.M. to repair her relationship with him. He writes, "Ted is about the greatest guy I know. He is always there to help anyone, isn't he?"

"Be open and honest with him. Ted is the most caring person I know and if you show a need of compassion and love, he will give his shirt off his back."

A.M. often cried during the so-called tests. Klaudt used the emails to tell her to toughen up.

"You need to promise you will not do the crying act stuff. He feels like he is hurting you. You are 18 now and it's time to start to act like an 18 year old girl. I don't mean to sound rude, but come on girl it's not like you are a virgin." 

Throughout the course of the emails, right through the time he campaigned and lost a bid at the state senate, Klaudt used the Linee name to promise A.M. tens of thousands of dollars if she proved to be a successful egg donor.

A.M. believed for several months the emails were from Terri Linee before finally suspecting she was actually Klaudt.

Klaudt Emails