Footballer Not Guilty of Attempted Rape Despite Shocking Video
By: Art Nunymiss
Tags: Rape, True Crime, Equality, Women, Justice

Judge found no evidence of sexual assault because the attacker didn’t kiss her

Change.org delivered almost 100,000 signatures to protest after 21-year-old football player Jackson Williams was found not guilty of attempted rape.

Much like the attacker thought to be Kadian Nelson, in the above video a man comes up behinds an unsuspecting woman, puts his hand over her mouth, and drags her into what is called an alley in America.

At 11 seconds he looks around to check that nobody has seen him.

He throws her to the ground and gets on top of her. At about 18 seconds he uses his left leg to pin her right leg open.

In the still image at the top, at 24 seconds in the CCTV footage, his left knee is clearly pinning her right knee. She rolls to her right side to keep her left knee from being pinned. She brings her left knee up into his groin, fighting as though she were trained.

The man continues to straddle her as she spins. He struggles to retain control of her head. She continues to use her left knee to protect her groin, screaming all the while and kicking at his groin and belly.

At 43 seconds an off-duty police officer vacationing with his family intervenes and Williams runs off.

Judge Mandy Fox said while the incident was an “intentional and violent assault”, she was not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Williams had intended to sexually attack the woman. “Forcing a person to a more secluded spot is consistent with a range of criminal intentions,” Judge Fox said.

Such as what?

Clearly the judge declined to get it. My best guess is bribery, that the young man’s wealthy, connected family, and/or the football team/league that he played for, shut it down. I see no other logical explanation but corruption.

MP Stuart Grimley, who has joined forces with the woman who was attacked, agrees with me.

“Why else would a young man drag a young woman into a deserted laneway, throw her to the ground and lie on top of her? Did he want to play Scrabble?”

Unfortunately MP Grimley doesn’t seem inclined to put any real pressure on the prosecution to appeal the ruling or have the judge investigated.

Judge Fox continued.

“It may be tempting to reason that because his body is on top of hers for a period during the assault … then there must be a sexual intention. “However, a dispassionate viewing of the CCTV footage shows that he is using his weight to control the complainant, who might be smaller and weaker but is still resisting and screaming. “I therefore find the accused not guilty.”

I have forwarded the video to professional grappler Rener Gracie via his YouTube channel. I hope he will do one of his expert street-fight analyses. I believe he will agree with me that Williams tried to pin Jones’ legs open and couldn’t because she fought, specifically rolling to keep her left knee free and legs closed. If Gracie does a breakdown I will update this, even if he disagrees with me.

Australian Law

It’s not clear to me why grabbing a woman and dragging her to a secondary location does not constitute kidnapping in Australia. As I read their law, what happened in the CCTV video is indisputable kidnapping and attempted sexual assault.

Lest you think I’m on a high horse, my country just elected Joe Biden president with a hearty scoff at sexual assault survivors. #MeToo got sacrificed to the angry gods in election 2020.

In my country over half of the states have a “use of force requirement” to prove rape. In other words, simply saying no isn’t good enough, you also have to fight — like the survivor in the above video, Emm Jones, certainly did.

The nurse in this video successfully fought off a much younger, larger, professional athlete who had the element of surprise. She and the off-duty police passerby prevented the rape.

Jones is currently working with Member of Parliament Stuart Grimley on a “grab and drag law” to cover the gap in cases like this, where the only logical explanation is sexual assault, but he didn’t get to seal the deal. I can’t think of any other sort of crime where someone pins someone to the ground face-up and covers their mouth, what other motivation there would be. Certainly not robbery.

The nurse and aged care worker has also teamed up with Justice Party MP Stuart Grimley in a push to introduce new legislation for “grab and drag” offences. “This has highlighted the flaws of the system,” she said of Williams’ case. “We need to hold these offenders accountable.”

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Mr Grimley said a “grab and drag” law would fill the legislative gap between common assault — of which Williams was found guilty — and intent to commit a sexual offence — which a judge found could not be proven in his case. He said as a former police officer, seeing men grab and drag women off the street was all too familiar. “It’s a precursor to more violent offending for these creeps, and it’s about time we introduced something to put a stop to it,” he said. Mr Grimley said he would discuss introducing the proposal with the Andrews’ government. Introducing a private members’ bill himself was also “on the table”. “We need to explore all avenues with this one,” he said. Mr Grimley is a member of Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party, who said Williams’ victim had been let down by the system.

Hell hath no fury something something.