I want to be a doctor: Hossain.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: Mohammad Hossain, the 19-year-old University of Illinois freshman who was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student in an attempt to reenact scenes from “Fifty Shades of Grey” was acquitted of rape and released from Cook County Jail last Thursday, where he was held since his arrest last month.
Judge Peggy Chiampas found there was no probably cause after a lengthy hearing that saw the alleged victim offer her testimony.
“He said, ‘I want to see how much you can take,'” she testified. “He said, ‘I want to see you cry.'”
After Hossain’s lawyer and a prosecutor finished questioning the 19-year-old woman, Judge Chiampas had several questions of her own. Chiampas queried whether the woman had said anything to Hossain when he bound her wrists or while he allegedly sexually assaulted her. She answered no on both counts.
Hossain’s defense had argued that the encounter was consensual.
“It was two college students that were having a sexual encounter,” Hossain’s attorney, Joshua Kutnick, told DNAinfo Chicago. “That’s all that it was.”
After being released from jail, Hossain reiterated that he was not involved in any sort of sexual assault and said he wanted to focus continue his education.
“All that really matters is becoming a doctor,” he told the Chicago Tribune. “I have one goal in mind, and that’s what I’ll set my heart to.”
Prosecutors have not decided whether they might still seek an indictment against Hossain.
“Generally speaking, non-stranger sexual assault or acquaintance rape cases present unique challenges and can be difficult to prove due to the fact that prosecutors must contend with defense assertions that the victim consented to the sex act or acts and there are typically no witnesses to the crime,” Sally Daly, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, said in a statement.
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It is a shame that this happened, and it hasn’t been the only case like this around the world – surprise, this is one of the things that concerned protestors about this movie. When you write about things that you don’t know about; the potential for creating erroneous impressions presents itself. Research is a writer’s best friend and one of the most basic literary disciplines. Use it if you want to be considered to be a good writer.
Writing is a profession with rules that are in place for a reason. When those rules erode – things like Twilight & 50 Shades of Grey happen. Fiction done right doesn’t hurt anybody – but, Twilight wasn’t done right; and 50 Shades is only ONE bad consequence of many that came out of it. 50 Shades is no more about BDSM than Twilight was about Vampires. It is virtual proof of how warped the obsessions of so many OLDER Twilight fans were so many years ago. What happened with The Twilight Saga is VERY RARE professionally-negligent publishing – NOT ‘Free Speech’ There are real amateur literary reasons why Twilight messed with so many people’s heads – and we are the ones who get called ‘crazy’ for it. (Unless we manage to write a XXX blockbuster based on all this negligence that makes a handful of people piles of money.) SEARCH explaintwilightbreakingdawnending on blogspot for all the details on how a romantic sparkling vamp accidentally inspired Christian Grey.