[MinuteGal]

My previous posts on this subject indicate I'm not on Kobe's side. However, one thing bothers me.

If what she says happened was happening to me, I'd be screaming my lungs out. I'd take that chair and swing it around on his face. I'd fight like a banshee. Screams often drive attackers away.

After all, they were in a hotel full of people and it appears his bodyguards were in an approximate room. It's not like they were in the middle of a remote desert somewhere where screams would go unnoticed. I haven't read where he duct-taped her mouth.

Perhaps she was paralyzed with fear. Perhaps some women react differently when raped. I don't know. All I know is that something doesn't compute here, at least to me. I would be yelling so loud it would wake up every customer and staff person in the entire hotel.

Leni

[PLOM...NOT!]

I dunno...have you ever been raped? Have you ever been raped with somebody's hands wrapped around your throat? Have you ever been raped by a 6 foot something 200+ pound man from behind with his hands wrapped around your throat? It's hard to speculate what you would or would not do.

[najida]

I know several women who have been raped because of something stupid they did (their own words) and they didn't report it....Opened a door, got in a car, got alone, went somewhere...whatever.

And they while they said no, and struggled, the problem was that they initialy liked the guy or at least didn't see him as any kind of threat. They had a certain level of trust. The best way I can put it, is that the shock of having that trust violated was paralysing while they were trying to process what was happening to them.

Their stories (that I knew years before this whole Kobe thing) are SO much like this girl's story, that I believe her. Case of Dumb Girl Syndrome.

[BabsC]

it appears his bodyguards were in an approximate room.

Actually I understood the bodyguards were on a different floor than he and that within those first 24 hours I thought it had been reported that he had switched rooms with one of the body guards.

The more I hear of the type of defence lawyer he has procured and the flip flops in his denials and the ring and tatoos, I'm starting to think this whole "clean as a whistle" player was far from it.

Anyone that has dated or known a "jock" in high school knows their attitude of their superiority and it takes good character or an outside character to reign that attitude in. I have a feeling with Kobe's ability on the court he probably has never really faced the consequences of his actions off the court. Just IMO of course of past experiences.

[Wright is right!]

"After all, they were in a hotel full of people and it appears his bodyguards were in an approximate room. It's not like they were in the middle of a remote desert somewhere where screams would go unnoticed."

Actually, Kobe's room was at the end of a first-floor hallway. His bodyguards were in rooms on the third floor. There were no people in rooms near Kobe's.

Michael