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GSU student reports rape
No arrest as police investigate
GSU police

A Georgia Southern University student reported being raped by an “acquaintance” in her college dorm room early Sunday morning.

According to Georgia Southern University police reports provided to the Statesboro Herald Wednesday in response to an open records request, officers were called to East Georgia Regional Medical Center Sunday morning regarding “a possible sexual assault.”

The 20-year-old female victim, a resident student, told police she had been forcibly raped by a man she listed by name. The rape occurred sometime after 4 a.m. in her Eagle Village dormitory room on Georgia Avenue, she said.

The victim said she wished to file a report about the alleged rape and handed over clothes she said she had worn during the ordeal. She also asked to be taken to The Teal House, a sexual assault counseling center, for a rape kit and examination, reports said.

The victim told officers they could find a pink paper bracelet, showing admission to a local bar, in a trash can in the dorm room. She said the bracelet belonged to the suspect. Police recovered that, as well as another paper bracelet on a shelf in the closet, according to reports.

Officers gathered the evidence and filed the report, but as of Wednesday morning, there had been no arrest in the case, according to Bulloch County Jail records.

The case remains under investigation.

 

Herald reporter Holli Deal Saxon may be reached at (912) 489-9414.

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