“It’s the seriousness of the charge, after all.”
The seriousness of the charge, not the facts of the event
he groped her at a party and he stopped after she protested. It’s not serious.
My favorite part is that they were upstairs and he “turned up the music” to drown out her protests.
How did he do this, since the music and party were on the first floor? Did he carry a remote in his back pocket?