2008 Woodie Awards
Report: No evidence to support possible rape at frat party
Issue date: 5/19/08 Section: News
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According to the Athens Banner-Herald, police are discontinuing the investigation of the alleged incident without further proof of physical evidence. The paper reported that unless someone verifies she was sexually assaulted at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house, the case is set aside.
"Without DNA or a witness, there's no chance of charging anyone with anything," Capt. Clarence Holeman, assistant commander of the Athens-Clarke police Criminal Investigations Division, told the Banner-Herald.
According to the Banner-Herald, police sent potential evidence to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's State Crime Lab for analysis, but experts found no traces of semen, Holeman said.
ACC detectives examined clothes she wore to the party, but didn't find any semen there either, he told the Banner-Herald.
A lack of physical evidence doesn't mean the woman wasn't sexually assaulted, Holeman said, but she may have hurt herself falling down when she passed out.
"We're not closing the case, just putting it to the side," Holeman told the Banner-Herald.
Meanwhile, the University investigation into code of conduct violations against Phi Gamma Delta are ongoing. Kimberly Ellis, associate dean for student affairs in the Office of Judicial Programs, told The Red & Black it will be at least next week until anything happens.
A University police report states alcohol could be obtained for those under the age of 21 and IDs were not always checked during party.
According to the documents obtained by the Banner-Herald, most Phi Gamma Delta fraternity brothers tell a different story from their guests. The report states "the victim in this incident stated that she obtained the alcohol that she drank from a residence and at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house. She stated that the majority of the alcohol that she consumed was at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house." The report goes on to say that a bar was outside the house, and that "she would ask a brother to make her a drink and they would comply. The victim in this incident is under the age of twenty-one" the report says.
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Chad
posted 5/18/08 @ 9:32 PM EST
If she wasn't raped, she should be CHARGED and PROSECUTED for FALSE REPORT OF A CRIME. She should also, in addition to whatever time she has to serve for COMMITTING A SERIOUS CRIME, have to PAY for what must surely have been an EXPENSIVE and TIME-CONSUMING investigation representing WASTED TIME, MONEY and RESOURCES that could have been spent catching REAL CRIMINALS. (Continued…)
James
posted 5/18/08 @ 11:25 PM EST
Agree with Chad 100%. Police department and prosecutor's office - let's step up to the plate and not let this one slip away. Anyone who "knowlingly" files a false police report should be prosecuted and if convicted get the same sentence the person would have received had they been wrongly convicted. (Continued…)
FJ
posted 5/19/08 @ 11:46 AM EST
Frank J here.
While I agree with Chad and James in their assessment that if this female knowingly filed a false report of a sexual assault she could and should be charged with the appropriate crime. (Continued…)
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posted 5/20/08 @ 3:17 PM EST
still waiting on The Bobster...
nobody important
posted 5/21/08 @ 1:57 AM EST
Y'all need to read the article again. Nowhere did it say that she wasn't raped. It simply said that no semen was found and that there were no witnesses to an assault. (Continued…)
idiots
posted 5/22/08 @ 6:05 AM EST
She also didn't press charges; she simply contacted the police and had a rape kit done so further investigation could be done to see if she was raped. (Continued…)
FratCap
posted 5/27/08 @ 5:17 AM EST
If she did not know if she was raped, the perpetrator must have had a very small penis.
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