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I hope that this isn't too 'much' for this site, but since it's not pornographic, it's not spam, and it's not a flame, i think it'll be ok.
I find it hillarious, but if you have a fairly week constitution, you probably shouldn't read about this fairly disturbing sexual incident.
Well, I stop stalling and get to the goods:
"75-Day Sentence In UConn Dorm Incident
The Hartford Courant, July 4, 2006
By DAVID OWENS, Courant Staff Writer VERNON --
A former University of Connecticut student admitted Monday to his role in a bizarre incident in which he, and allegedly two others, ejaculated onto a female student while she slept in a dorm room.
At Superior Court in Rockville, Zak Allan Brohinsky, 20, of Simsbury pleaded no contest to a single count of first-degree reckless endangerment and was sentenced to 75 days in prison. He is the first of three former students to settle a case that prompted the state legislature to close a loophole in the state's sexual assault law.
Brohinsky was in court last week and opted to have his case placed on the docket for a jury trial. Assistant State's Attorney Elizabeth Leaming kept her plea bargain offer on the table, and on Monday, Brohinsky's lawyer, Elizabeth Foran, told Leaming that he wanted to accept the deal.
Brohinsky, who had already apologized to the victim, apologized again Monday when entering his plea. He also agreed to cooperate with the state if the cases against the two remaining defendants go to trial. Brohinsky is the son of Scott Brohinsky, UConn's director of university relations.
"Sometimes good kids do some bad things, and I believe that's the case in this matter, that Zak has accepted responsibility," Scott Brohinsky said Monday. "I think he expressed profound remorse and he's committed himself to making amends. He hasn't wavered from that commitment. Those who know him are confident that he will not waver from that commitment."
Charges are still pending against Jared Skvirsky, 20, of Brookline, Mass., and Martin V. Piscottano, 19, of 72 Root Road, Somers.
All were initially charged with disorderly conduct, conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct and public indecency. They were not charged with sexual assault because what they were accused of doing did not fit the definition of sexual assault. Leaming has said that a charge of sexual assault would have required "some kind of contact between the intimate parts of the body involved" and that "semen is not defined as an intimate part."
But the case prompted the state legislature this spring to expand the definition of sexual assault to include contact with bodily fluids.
According to arrest warrant affidavits, the incident began in the early morning hours of Sept. 24, 2005, in Skvirsky's dorm room in Watson Hall, where he and the female student went after they met at a party at the Carriage House Apartments off campus.
The two began kissing, and then the woman stopped, deciding she didn't like it. Because it was late and she didn't feel safe walking home alone, she decided to stay in his room and fell asleep on a futon. Skvirsky fell asleep on his bed. Both had been drinking, but said they were not drunk, an affidavit said.
A short while later, Brohinsky, Skvirsky's roommate, came into the room with his friend, Piscottano. They tried to wake the woman so Piscottano could sleep on the futon, but she would not get up, according to an affidavit.
The three men watched a porn video on a computer and then took turns ejaculating onto the woman's face and body, an affidavit said. The woman said that when she woke up, she felt something on her and thought she had drooled on herself, an affidavit said.
After Brohinsky and Piscottano left the room, the woman asked Skvirsky what was on her face. He said he didn't know, according to an affidavit. The woman returned to her dorm room and washed her face, but was concerned about the substance.
The next day, Skvirsky sent an instant message to the woman stating, among other things, that "they were really drunk" and ejaculated on her, an affidavit said.
According to an affidavit, Brohinsky and Piscottano got together, and Piscottano typed a story they all planned on memorizing and repeating in case the woman called police. Brohinsky also e-mailed the made-up story to the woman, hoping that she would buy it and not call police, according to an affidavit.
The woman went to police on Sept. 27 to press charges."
So... Now that you've read it through, discuss. I think the weirdest part is that it's classified as reckless endangerment. How is it endagering anyone?
Sincereley,
Pat
Edited by {SF3G}pat 2nd Lt., 04 July 2006 - 12:51 PM.
