Stanford U Swimmer Denies Rape, Admits Sexual Activity With Victim

Although two graduate students cycling inside Stanford University’s campus in Palo Alto caught kicked out swimmer Brock Allen Turner, 19, on top of an unconscious woman, the athlete who had competed in the London Summer Olympic Games insisted he wasn’t raping her.

He told the Santa Clara County Superior Court when he entered a “not guilty” plea to file felony rape charges that it was consensual sex between him and the woman who is not a student at the university but whom Turner met at a party in the campus, reports San Francisco Gate.

The San Jose Mercury News reports that Turner said he only fondled her. They never had sexual intercourse and he kept his pants on, although the bikers caught him on top of the victim.

In denying that he sexually assaulted the victim, the swimmer said, according to court documents, that she allegedly enjoyed the activity. The police report quotes Turner as saying he merely wanted to hook up with her.

But the two male graduate students who saw them near the Kappa Alpha fraternity house on Jan 18 at about 1 am said they intervened because the woman was apparently unconscious.

A police deputy described the victim as partly naked and lying near a garbage bin and a tree, with her hair knotted and completely covered by pine needles. The woman was brought to a hospital where it took her hours to wake up. Her underwear was found on the ground where the alleged rape happened.

Turner admitted drinking seven cans of beer, which explains the alcohol in his breath when arrested. He attempted to flee when the two cyclists stopped and restrained the swimmer and called the police.

The victim’s last recollection was that after four shots of whiskey at the Kappa Alpha party, she went with her younger sister and a friend to a bathroom in the creek area and talked to a few men on the way back to the fraternity house. She didn’t remember having kissed anyone or agreeing to have sex with anyone.

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