The Post reports that 32-year-old Fermin Flores was at the Second Avenue San Loco when the victim walked in alone to the restaurant.
“The victim ordered a drink but the bartender refused to serve her because she was drunk,” Flores told cops Jan. 14 after he was arrested. “She seemed like she was drunk … by the way she moved and spoke.”
Flores, who works as a cashier at the San Loco in North Williamsburg, said that he asked to walk the woman home. He waited for her outside and stayed a few steps behind her, according to his statement. At her East Seventh Street apartment building, he claims that she invited him upstairs.
Flores, who lives in Washington Heights, also told police that he had six beers that night. The DA has charged him with rape, burglary, criminal sex act and strangulation. He has pleaded not guilty.
[Photo from the outside the alleged crime scene from Jan. 13]
Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] NYPD investigating possible sexual assault on East 7th Street
NYPD releases surveillance video of East Seventh Street rape suspect
2 comments:
what else would he say.
Rape is fucked up. Date rape is fucked up. Two drunk people having sex that one regrets later, is not rape. regardless of the very real fact that men can usually physically dominate women. To me, the question of whether or not she invited him makes the difererence. whether or not he was actually drunk is also important. Also, how drunk do have to be to be incapable of choosing? it gets blurry when people are still walking and talking on their own. There are important distinctions we need to know so that the guilty parties can be punished and the wolf crying victims can be weeded out to protect people who.really were raped. people who cry wolf or embellish about sexual crimes really hurt people with valid accusations.
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