If those details are true, it's the very definition of attempted rape. Are they true? Who knows. I kinda have my doubts. I'm not sure why a college girl is sneaking a college boy past her sleeping roommates and into her apartment for any reason other than sex. The victims are always afforded leniency with details when there are no witnesses. But all we have are her word vs. his word vs. what the police put in the report, so that's what I'm going on. If he tried to have sex, she said no, and he grabbed her by the throat...there's only one place that is leading. I guess my main point, though, is let's not try to excuse an alleged violent assault as just typical college boy drunkenness simply because he's a football player.
No it isn't. It's a drunk idiot making a clumsy pass at a woman who allowed him into her apartment late at night.
Attempted rape to me is forcing someone into a bed, holding them down, and taking them by force. He did lay hands on her. Did he attempt to forcibly remove her clothes? No. Did he use a weapon, or threaten to use a weapon? No. Did he beat her for refusing his advances? No.
He tried to grab her a couple times and she fought him off. I don't call that rape. It may pass muster for sexual assault though, but there isn't even any indication that he touched her in a sensitive place.
I've heard of far worse.
I'm not saying he isn't stupid for doing it, and that he shouldn't be in trouble, but that's a far cry from rape IMO.
Most cases like this there is actual contact of the females body by digits or other body parts. Nothing even close to that occured here.
