The Tale of Eric Frimpong
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:01 am
I’m not really sure which forum this belongs in, but given the direction I’m sure it will go, I think politics is the best place for it. It’s long, and I apologize for that, but shorter than either of the two linked articles at the bottom.
Eric Frompong was a Ghanaian midfielder for the UCSB men’s soccer team in 2005-2006, winning the school’s second national title in any sport in 06. In mid-February of 2007, a freshmen girl, called Jane Doe, accused him of rape.
According to Doe, she, her friends, and older sister went out to celebrate that night because she had just gotten a part-time job and her license back after a juvenile DUI conviction. They took shots in the dorm, went out, drank beer, took more shots, and her group gradually broke apart, her sister going off to visit some old friends and Doe’s friends returning to their dorm. She was walking alone down Del Playa Drive and was trying to get into a frat party she knew a couple of guys at. Frimpong was leaning on a car outside and started talking to her, and convinces her to come back to his house to play beer pong with him and his roommates. They arrive at Frimpong’s house around midnight, he introduces her to his roommates, and they begin playing pong for 10-15 minutes until she announces she needs a cigarette, and they leave for a park next door. There is a guy who has followed them from the frat to Frimpong’s house and now to the park, whom Doe confronts. This is later revealed to be Doe’s ex-boyfriend, Ben Randall, and who she had sex with four days prior. This is where Frimpong and Doe’s accounts differ.
Doe says she was knocked over, hit hard in the face at least once, choked while her pants were removed, and raped her for 15 minutes while screaming loudly through it all. Frimpong says she tried to kiss him and pushed her away because the cigarette made her stink. She then stuck her hand down his pants and he pushed her away and left to go to a friend’s party.
Around 1 a.m. another UCSB student, Justin Hannah, saw her wandering on the beach, sobbing and drunk. He asked if she was alright or needed anything, and she asked for a cell phone, calling her friends, father, and sister. Around 1:30 her friends came and picked her up and in a taped interview with police the next day, Hannah swore that she had no sand on her. However, when the deputy wrote his report, he added that Hannah described Doe as “covered in sand”. This written report, and not the verbal interview, would be used against Hannah two months later, in an effort to cause him to say she was covered in sand. Frimpong’s jeans would only yield two small vials of sand from the cuffs and one pocket.
Doe claims to have no memory from being picked up to “waking” up in hospital. Her friends, Mia Wolfson and Lakshmi Krishna, said at the dorm Doe complained of pain on her right buttcheek and left wrist, presumably from falling. They said Doe did not want to call police or go to the hospital, as she was in violation of her probation from the DUI, but eventually convinced her to go. The SART nurse who examined her found an inch long tear in her vagina, which is consistent with sexual assault as well as a round mark on her buttcheek and another on her cheek (shown to be a bite mark). She said that during the attack she had a large ring on her right hand and hit her assailant repeatedly, so that “all my knuckles were screwed up”. The SART nurse put no such thing in her report, in fact noting a lack of any scratches, blood, semen, or vaginal fluid. The only DNA evidence found was semen on her underwear, which was ultimately shown to come from Randall. Doe would testify that she had worn a clean pair that night.
Eric Frompong was a Ghanaian midfielder for the UCSB men’s soccer team in 2005-2006, winning the school’s second national title in any sport in 06. In mid-February of 2007, a freshmen girl, called Jane Doe, accused him of rape.
According to Doe, she, her friends, and older sister went out to celebrate that night because she had just gotten a part-time job and her license back after a juvenile DUI conviction. They took shots in the dorm, went out, drank beer, took more shots, and her group gradually broke apart, her sister going off to visit some old friends and Doe’s friends returning to their dorm. She was walking alone down Del Playa Drive and was trying to get into a frat party she knew a couple of guys at. Frimpong was leaning on a car outside and started talking to her, and convinces her to come back to his house to play beer pong with him and his roommates. They arrive at Frimpong’s house around midnight, he introduces her to his roommates, and they begin playing pong for 10-15 minutes until she announces she needs a cigarette, and they leave for a park next door. There is a guy who has followed them from the frat to Frimpong’s house and now to the park, whom Doe confronts. This is later revealed to be Doe’s ex-boyfriend, Ben Randall, and who she had sex with four days prior. This is where Frimpong and Doe’s accounts differ.
Doe says she was knocked over, hit hard in the face at least once, choked while her pants were removed, and raped her for 15 minutes while screaming loudly through it all. Frimpong says she tried to kiss him and pushed her away because the cigarette made her stink. She then stuck her hand down his pants and he pushed her away and left to go to a friend’s party.
Around 1 a.m. another UCSB student, Justin Hannah, saw her wandering on the beach, sobbing and drunk. He asked if she was alright or needed anything, and she asked for a cell phone, calling her friends, father, and sister. Around 1:30 her friends came and picked her up and in a taped interview with police the next day, Hannah swore that she had no sand on her. However, when the deputy wrote his report, he added that Hannah described Doe as “covered in sand”. This written report, and not the verbal interview, would be used against Hannah two months later, in an effort to cause him to say she was covered in sand. Frimpong’s jeans would only yield two small vials of sand from the cuffs and one pocket.
Doe claims to have no memory from being picked up to “waking” up in hospital. Her friends, Mia Wolfson and Lakshmi Krishna, said at the dorm Doe complained of pain on her right buttcheek and left wrist, presumably from falling. They said Doe did not want to call police or go to the hospital, as she was in violation of her probation from the DUI, but eventually convinced her to go. The SART nurse who examined her found an inch long tear in her vagina, which is consistent with sexual assault as well as a round mark on her buttcheek and another on her cheek (shown to be a bite mark). She said that during the attack she had a large ring on her right hand and hit her assailant repeatedly, so that “all my knuckles were screwed up”. The SART nurse put no such thing in her report, in fact noting a lack of any scratches, blood, semen, or vaginal fluid. The only DNA evidence found was semen on her underwear, which was ultimately shown to come from Randall. Doe would testify that she had worn a clean pair that night.
The cows never testify.