Before the eight-months-pregnant ex-girlfriend of Sean 'Diddy' Combs testified at his trial this week, Combs's lawyers asked the judge to seat Casandra 'Cassie' Ventura on the witness stand before the jury entered the room.

Her pregnancy is a 'beautiful and wonderful' thing that could be 'a source of potential sympathy' and cast their client in an unfair light, they argued.

How desperate of them. How revealing.

And how satisfying that their motion was denied by the judge.

On Friday, Ventura, the long-suffering alleged victim of Combs's depravity, walked to the stand – in full view of the jury – for the fourth-straight day to tell of the horrors, she says, she suffered.

Well, I say, if she has the jury's 'sympathy', she damn well deserves it.

Before the eight-months-pregnant ex-girlfriend of Sean ' Diddy ' Combs testified at his trial this week, Combs's lawyers asked the judge to seat Casandra 'Cassie' Ventura on the witness stand before the jury entered the room.

Her pregnancy is a 'beautiful and wonderful' thing that could be 'a source of potential sympathy' and cast their client in an unfair light, they argued. How desperate of them. How revealing.

Ventura and Combs started dating when she was 21 and he was 37. The relationship – if you can call it that – lasted on and off for 11 years. And within their first few months together, she says, Combs cajoled her into joining his now infamous 'freak offs' - baby-oil-greased sex sessions with male prostitutes that lasted up to four days.

Ventura has excruciatingly recounted, through tears, the humiliation of allegedly being forced to perform sexually countless times, with countless men-for-hire.

The 'freak offs,' she says, led to her contracting UTIs, developing mouth sores from hours of oral sex and gastric issues from the drugs she'd take to numb herself.

All the while, Combs looked on and masturbated, testified one male prostitute. And if this alleged vicious voyeur's every sick whim wasn't indulged, Ventura said, he would fly into a rage.

Male 'escort' Daniel Phillip said while he was having sex with Ventura, Combs threw a liquor bottle at her, then dragged her out of the room. Phillip claimed he could then hear Combs pummeling her. When a violently shaking Ventura emerged, she flung herself onto terrified Phillip's lap, he said.

Ventura detailed the consequences of the alleged ongoing abuse (before and after the 'freak offs'): head contusions and fat lips from head stompings, leg bruises, a cut forehead that required sewing shut by a plastic surgeon.

During one inconceivably appalling 'freak-off,' Ventura testified that she was choking on urine from a hired hand, and when she dared complain about it, Diddy joined in to complete the degradation.

What type of person would even be capable of such violent perversions?

Perhaps the same person who happily welcomes six of his children (the youngest is, mercifully, not out of diapers and not in attendance) to watch his trial from the gallery?

Ventura and Combs started dating when she was 21 and he was 37. The relationship – if you can call it that – lasted on and off for 11 years. And within their first few months together, she says, Combs cajoled her into joining his now infamous 'freak offs.'

Combs's kids – sons Quincy, 33, Justin, 30, and Christian, 26, and daughters Chance, 18, and twins D'Lila and Jessie, 18 – have paraded into the courthouse seemingly dressed for the Grammy Awards.

It might as well be an award show. Among the Combs family entourage (including mother Janice, 84, in a blonde wig and clothed like an urban cowboy) is a videographer. Someone tell Brett Ratner that when he's done at the White House there's another job!

Joking aside (it's the only thing to keep me from barfing), why are the kids, especially Combs's teenage daughters, there?

The defense team has been through discovery, they knew what vile allegations would be raised and what they'd admit.

Combs's violent outbursts were fueled by alcohol and drugs, said defense lawyer Teny Geragos in her opening statements on Monday. The beatings might warrant domestic violence charges, she conceded, but not sex trafficking and racketeering to which he's pled not guilty.

The jury might not condone Combs's 'kinky sex,' she argued, but that's not a federal crime.

What should be a federal crime is allowing one's children to sit through that filth about their own father. But Diddy doesn't seem to mind, nauseatingly flashing his family a heart symbol with his hands and blowing his momma a kiss.

The twins flew back to California on Wednesday to attend their prom, which under any other circumstances might be sweet. Though, it makes me wonder if they're likely to have any shred of innocence left.

Combs's kids – sons Quincy, 33, Justin, 30, and Christian, 26, and daughters Chance, 18, and twins D'Lila and Jessie, 18 – have paraded into the courthouse seemingly dressed for the Grammy Awards. (Pictured: Jessie, Chance and D'Lila Star Combs). 

It might as well be an award show. Among the Combs family entourage (including mother Janice, 84, in a blonde wig and clothed like an urban cowboy) is a videographer. Someone tell Brett Ratner that when he's done at the White House there's another job!

What should be a federal crime is allowing one's children to sit through that filth about their own father. But Diddy doesn't seem to mind, nauseatingly flashing his family a heart symbol using his hands and blowing momma a kiss.

A source close to the Combs family told the Daily Mail on Thursday how 18-year-old D'Lila is taking it all: 'She doesn't agree with everything he has done, she hates to hear about all the sexual things.'

'No one wants to hear about that from their dad,' the insider said. 'That part is disgusting to her, of course. She has learned more than she ever needed to know about her father's sex life. But she's not going to turn her back on him.'

Poor kid.

If only her father cared more for her than the positive optics of her sitting through hours of these putrid revelations.

And what does Combs's mom have to say for herself?

'She's staying strong with her very close family and a solid foundation of faith,' said the source.

How Christian of her.

It's all almost too horrifying to believe. But if I were on the jury, I'd lock him up and throw away the baby oil.