Mutt

Reading this summary of the girl's statements to the police I don't think this is rape. I do believe everything the girl says, mostly because there are many opportunities where she could have made Bryant look much much worse being a 'he said, she said' case. I think Kobe was wrong but to me this isn't a rape, certainly not one worth putting him behind bars for.

When an adult female flirts with a celebrity, accepts an invitation to his hotel room alone late at night, then engages in a 5 minute long make out session consensually ............ sorry, things happen, she got fucked when she really didn't want to, boo hoo, happens hundreds of thousands of times all over the world. She did say 'no' a couple of times, according to her,not that forcefully.

I've already spoken to people who are interpreting Kobe's request to her to keep her mouth shut as some kind of admission that he knew he did something wrong. No - what he was asking her was to keep her mouth shut so his 18 year old wife wouldn't find out. That's what Kobe was worried about. I don't think he thought he was taking her against her will.

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Summary Of Accuser's Statement To Det. Doug Winter
Alleged Victim Tells Detective She Was Raped From Behind, Against Chair

UPDATED: 8:01 p.m. MDT October 9, 2003

Eagle County Detective Doug Winters said he talked to the alleged victim at her parents home and convinced her to be interviewed at the sheriff's department.

The alleged victim told Winter that she was excited about meeting Bryant, a new guest at the resort. She said that while she was showing Bryant and two people in his entourage up to their rooms, he pulled her aside and asked her to give him a tour of the hotel.

She said there was "mutual flirting" during the tour, Winters said.

She said Bryant invited her back to his room and she went in and sat on a couch while he sat on a chair nearby. They chatted about tattoos and he asked her to show the tattoo she said she had on her ankle. She did. He asked if she wanted to go in the hot tub and she said no.

Winters said that her shift was ending and that she wanted to go home. "She was starting to feel a bit uncomfortable," Winters said.

When she thought she was leaving, she asked for Bryant's autograph in which he replied that he would give it to her later when she came back to his room.

She said he asked her for a hug and she gave him one and then he began kissing her mouth, her neck -- actions she said she agreed to. She said the kissing lasted about 5 minutes. She said he then began to grope her breasts and butt. He began putting his hand under her panties, and she told him that she had to leave.

She said she was trying to leave when Bryant "grabbed her around the neck," Winters said.

She said that he was trying to block her movement. She said she was afraid and he started to follow her as she moved toward the door. She said that he had both of his hands around her neck and was "controlling her movements."

She said he then bent her over a chair, pulled up black dress and pulled her panties down. She said that she told him that she needed to leave "and at one point, stated 'No,'" Winters said.

She said she began crying when the sexual intercourse started and didn't stop until it was over about 5 minutes later. She said the sex was painful.

She said she told Bryant "No" at least twice. When asked if she was yelling "No" she told Winters that she said "No" in a normal voice. She said he had ignored her.

She said that while the intercourse was occurring he asked, "You're not going to tell anyone, right?" She said no. He asked her to look at him and again confirm that she would not tell anyone. She said she did that because she was afraid he would hurt her even more. She said when the incident was "about to end" she started prying his hands off her neck, and then he stopped.

She said Bryant wasn't holding her neck so tight she couldn't breathe but she was afraid that he was going to choke her.

She said she turned around and pulled up her underwear. The woman said that Bryant forced her to kiss his penis after the attack. She said Bryant asked her to go clean up in the bathroom. She said she was in the bathroom for about 5 minutes, fixing her hair and wiping her face. Before she left, Bryant reminded her that she shouldn't tell anyone and she said she would remain quiet. She said she then went down to the front desk and finished her work and then told the bellman everything that had happened.

Winters said that while he was interviewing her, there was another deputy in the room as well as a victim's advocate. The interview was videotaped but the videotape was not allowed to be submitted in the preliminary hearing because it was deemed too prejudicial. An audiotape of Kobe Bryant's statement was also pulled from the preliminary hearing.

Winters said that before she began telling her story, he told her that if this was a false accusation, that she would be in big trouble. She said that she understood.

Winters said she sounded serious when she was telling him her story.

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