Student reports rape in downtown Athens (w/police report)
October 7, 2008 by BRITTANY COFER
Filed under News
A 20-year-old female University student reported a rape to Athens-Clarke County police on Saturday.
According to the report:
She and a group of friends went downtown Friday night to celebrate a birthday. The woman said she remembered going to Topper’s to buy the friend a lap dance for her birthday. She said a white male, approximately 23 to 25 years old, was buying her drinks, and she thought he might have put something in them.
She said at some point she began to walk home and was separated from the other girls. She told police she did not remember anything after leaving Topper’s until she was at the Exxon on Martin Luther King Parkway and saw a black male following her.
She said she started to walk faster, and he began walking faster. At that time she reached down, took off her flip flops and began to run. She said she did not remember anything else until she was home and inside.
She told police she had scrapes on her stomach, left elbow and she was sore between her ribs and buttocks.
Police collected her clothing and the victim told police she was missing her black strapless bra.
Police did not find the bra between the Exxon and her home. The victim was also missing $20 in cash from her pocket.
The last rape reported by a University student was in May. This is the second violent incident near campus this semester.
An attempted armed robbery occurred Sept. 15 near the administration building when a student was held at gunpoint by two men.
