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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Shortly after the alleged rape, the alleged victim went to both the hospital and the police. The rape kit indicated numerous lacerations around her vagina consistent with rape. She offered to take a polygraph test when questioned by police. She also had bruising around her neck consistent with the story that Kobe had been forceful with her.
When the police questioned Kobe, he denied anything happened multiple times. Until they told him there was physical evidence. That's when he offered to pay her off. Including asking the officers "“Is there any way I can settle this whatever it is, I mean…?”
His defense was that he also got rough with the other girl he cheated on his wife with.
The victim had her name drug through the mud, namely that she had schizophrenia that required medication at one point and that she was sexually active (as a 19 year old!). Perhaps more serious, the court inadvertently released her name and address and she began to receive death threats.
With the defense allowed to enter her sexual activity into evidence, the death threats, and public humiliation, she decided to withdraw from testifying.
This was a case of how money can buy you great PR if nothing else. But fortunately we don't have to decide if the alleged victim was truthful or not. We can take Kobe's word for it:
You know what a sexual encounter that one party doesn't consent to is called? Rape.
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My comment was more in his incredible work for youth basketball, his philanthropic work, and his work with women’s basketball.
There’s a lot more to Kobe Bryant than his his sexual assault.