Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Woman acquitted of sex assault of passed out man: now suing for paternity

Like the poster said, if the woman had this man's baby, and the only way that she could have had it was by sex with him while he was passed out, then how the heck wasn't she found guilty? And she's asking for child support, too?

From the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, Woman not guilty of sex assault:

Tammy L. Christie, formerly of Stevens Point, was found not guilty Thursday of third-degree sexual assault. Prior to Thursday's trial, the charge against Christie was reduced from second-degree sexual assault of an unconscious person. Wood County Circuit Court Judge Greg Potter officiated over the one-day trial.

According to the criminal complaint, on Feb. 15, 2006, a 21-year-old man was at a relative's residence in Marshfield drinking and playing cards. The man felt dizzy and had a headache, his vision became blurred, and he had trouble walking.

He came too the next morning in a spare bedroom, with Christie by his side. He didn't think anything happened, but something did. Recently, he was served with paternity papers, and a DNA test proved that the victim was the father of Christie's child.

Christie reportedly told a Marshfield detective she had been at the residence when the man had too much to drink and had to be helped into a bedroom.

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And the kicker is now she wants child support?

Now, I don't know all of the facts, but from what I had read about this case, this woman had sex with this man while he was drunk. Now if the tables were turned and it was the man who had sex with the woman when she was drunk, the man would have been found guilty. How did this woman get pregnant with this man's child? If they had never had sex other than when the woman utilized the man's services without his consent, I would think it was sexual assault. Can anyone shed some light on this.

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