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In reply to the discussion: WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Says to Leave London Embassy 'Soon' [View all]Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Conflate two separate encounters.
#1) Sleeping woman is not the same woman as the holding down woman.
#2) "Sleeping woman" was not actually sleeping according to her own police report. After the night together. she woke up in the morning and had gone out to bring back breakfast for the two of them and laid back down and was half asleep with Assange when he initiated sex. Her complaint was that he initiated sex without a condom, an act to which she acquiesced. When the police altered her statement to say that she was raped. She refused to sign the statement. She. refused. to. sign. the. statement.
#3 ) Held down woman. Her testimony was that they were engaged in foreplay and that she wished to reach for a condom. Her testimony was that Assange was laying on top of her making it impossible to reach said condom. Her testimony says that she did not use WORDS to express desire not to have sex without a condom but rather, gave physical clues... closing her legs, stiffening up... i.e., not that into into it. Her testimony then says, that Assange, recognizing, her NON VERBAL CUES, asked her what was wrong, (HELLO! HE INITIATED THE DIALOGUE TO FIND OUT WHAT HAD GONE AWRY) and when she expressed a desire to use a condom, he complied.