Premier League footballer 'raped woman at university party and showed video to pals'
A Premier League footballer has been accused of rape
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A woman has claimed she was raped by a Premier League footballer at a university party eight years ago.
The alleged victim claims the attack happened in her own bedroom and she hadn't met the footballer in question prior to the incident.
The footballer, it's claimed, came through an elite academy and was working towards becoming a Premier League star at the time.
The woman says he now plays in the top flight. In an interview with the Daily Mail, she says she was 'unable to move' and had 'zero attraction' to the man.
A woman has claimed the footballer plays in the Premier League
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"I was on the bed, completely unable to move," she told the publication.
"My dress was hoisted up but still on.
"That is reaffirming because why would I have my dress like that if I wanted sex? I didn't understand what had happened."
The woman also claimed that the footballer even filmed the alleged attack - with the footage then circulating among his friends.
"He had filmed it [the assault] and my housemate, who had heard what was in this video, had come to ask what was going on," she said.
The woman continued: "I don't know exactly what was shared.
"Part of me wishes I'd seen the video, so I had some form of evidence.
"I don't think I had any idea what was going on.
"It's still there in my mind, but how it got from him being sat in a chair to that...if I was with it, I'd surely remember him filming."
She insists she wasn't drunk and wonders if 'something else was involved'.
"There is no way in hell that I could have been drunk enough to black out," she stated.
"Either something else was involved or trauma took over.
"How I felt the next day was so different from a hangover. I was overwhelmingly confused and tired more than anything."
The woman continued to say that the thought of going to a football match brought on panic attacks in the years that followed.
She now watches the sport on TV with a remote control in case the alleged attacker's face appears.
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And she also fears she's not the only victim, too.
"How he treated me in that situation — aside from the actual rape — speaks of someone who is very confident doing that stuff and doesn't view it as sexual violence," she said.
"He'll just think the video is banter with the lads.
"I'm not stupid; this will have happened to someone else, too."
Prison, for her, wouldn't be enough.
"I wouldn't want him in prison. I'd want him to acknowledge it happened," she said. "I'd want him to explain to me why it happened."
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