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PAGE 22 THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY ICWS MAY 1. 1991 Alleged date rapist rebuts woman's story by Lucinda Couto No problem. Saving miMions every month. hfoldingmyovvnortof). Definitejyahitcnrm Haentsaapeuysin(erTy piggybankdied.

"Early Sunday morning, without any protest or argument on the part of Ms. Koestner, we engaged in intercourse. Afterwards, we went to brunch together, and during this time she began to express regrets about the morning's occurrence," he wrote. "After spending the day talking about the intercourse and our relationship, Ms. Koestner and I returned to our respective residence halls to do school work.

The next day she sent me word that she was extremely upset and confused and needed some time apart from me to think." The week-long separation ended with several long conversations, "at all hours of the day and night," he said. After fall break, they spoke again. He said Koestner did not mention date rape or sexual assault, allegations he learned of when the dean of students told him that he was being charged through the college's administrative disciplinary system. Koestner said Monday that the man's letter has "some lies in it." She said she knew the man for about a week and a half, and ate at restaurants with him a couple of times. She said she felt comfortable with him because he didn't pressure her to have sex Sept.

28, the first night he spent in her dorm room. The next night, however, they returned from a date and he began to pressure her to have sex, she said. He pressured her for about four hours before he raped her, Koestner said. "Maybe there wasn't physical violence, but getting on top of me is force. Pushing my legs apart is force," she said.

"He didn't beat me up. I didn't end up with bruises." That morning at brunch, Koestner said she "was in shock. I was in shock all day. I didn't want to face the fact that this happened to me." After telling her parents about the incident, she said, she and her father went to the Williamsburg commonwealth's attorney about her case. She said she was discouraged from pursuing criminal charges because the case would hinge on whether she had given consent.

Newport News Daily Press WmJAMSBURG, Va. The College of William and Mary freshman alleged to have raped fellow student Katie Koestner has challenged the woman's account of the incident, saying that he and Koestner had dated for three weeks and had spent the night before the alleged rape in her dorm room, at her invitation. The man, who told his version of the story in an unsigned letter in the student newspaper, said he was found guilty by a college hearing officer of sexual assault for emotionally pressuring, not physically forcing, Koestner to have intercourse. The man, who has not been charged with a criminal offense, said he was telling his side of the incident because Koestner has appeared on national television to tell "her side of the issue without rebuttal," and has "been able to take many liberties with the truth." The student newspaper, The Flat Hat, published the man's letter without revealing his name. The Daily Press of Newport News, agreed not to name him as a condition of an interview in March.

He refused to be interviewed on Monday. Koestner stepped into the national limelight when she agreed to be named in the Washington Post and on the Larry King television show as a victim of date rape. Although the names of rape victims are customarily withheld, Koestner said she agreed to be named because "a name and a picture brings the story closer to the heart" In the letter that appeared in the April 26 edition of The Flat Hat, the man labeled her campaign "one woman's private war." "I believe that date rape is wrong, both criminally and morally, and that those found guilty of rape should face severe penalties. however, have had the misfortune of being wrongly branded as a date rapist, and I understand the terrible consequences of being falsely accused of that crime." He said the couple spent Friday night, Sept. 28, in her room and Saturday together.

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