-PJ
Actually, the accusation’s specifics don’t really point to rape. Her specific claims don’t include anything he said to suggest he was going to have sex with her. SHe implied a lot of things in her statement, things that the “felt” might be happening.
Feelings are real for a person having them, but feelings are notoriously bad for determining fact. “I felt he might kill me inadvertently”, but nothing she said actually happened comes close to something that would kill a person.
She didn’t even say he tried to kiss her.
Even if you presume the entire incident happened exactly as she said, what she claimed was he got on top of her, held her down, put a hand over her mouth when she screamed, and attempted to remove her one-piece bathing suit from underneath her clothing (which sounds like she’s saying he was trying to unhook her bra, not realizing she was wearing a bathing suit).
And before anything actually happened, by HER account the other guy in the room jumped on them both, and then she left and they did not follow her.
So, an “attempted rape” where the supposed “assistant” actually stops it, and where the accused would-be rapist stopped before anything happened, didn’t pursue the “victim”.
Note: if they find any evidence that ANY of this happened, he is DONE because he issued a blanket denial. He can no longer argue that she misunderstood. It would even be hard for him to argue that the woman actually came on to him, because his blanket denial included the idea of even being at a party with her.