re: No charges filed against Jameis Winston

My roommate freshman year just got his heart broken by his long-term girlfriend, and these two girls that were best friends were interested in him. Well he didn't like one of them and refused her advances when he did have that girlfriend, but when he was single, the girl he rejected dumped her best friend onto him. The other girl slept over in our dorm (which was literally the size of a broom closet with two beds in it), and I even left the room for them to have "alone time" at her request. The next day the girl he rejected and the girl he slept with both confronted him telling him he basically HAD to get into a relationship with this girl. He declined and said he literally just got out of a long-term relationship. So that night they call him over to their dorm at like 3 AM to say they were afraid of him and that somehow he forced her into sex. I was there, there was nothing forced about it. She asked ME to leave the room so they could bang.

Long story short, they went to the cops and the cops called him down to the campus PD. I went with him and they explained that they were thinking of pressing charges for sexual assault. My testimony saved him because I literally watched this entire thing unfold. He wasn't pursued for charges but had to go to a disciplinary hearing and was found not guilty there as well. These girls almost ruined his life because he had been reluctant to date her the day after sleeping with her.

Not saying this happened here, but things honestly can go from simple encounters to "he raped me! clearly he had no interest in wanting to date me so what we did didn't matter. It's rape!".

Again, I'm not a rape enabler, this is just my first hand experience of when I was a college freshman and watching things unfold. Legitimate rapes happen. It's awful and traumatizing. But sometimes people let their emotions get in the way of the truth.