A Bronx co-ed has been charged with raping her female roommate
at Susquehanna University, police said.
Pratigya Thakur, a 19-year-old sophomore, was arrested Monday on
charges of rape, indecent assault and harassment in connection with
the alleged May 16 attack at the school in Selinsgrove, according
to an arrest affidavit obtained by The Post.
Thakur’s roommate reported the alleged rape to university
officials May 29, then told cops June 6. She said both she and
Thakur drank alcohol and smoked marijuana before the alleged
attack, the arrest affidavit states.
The roommate said she was singing and dancing inside their
Hassinger Hall dorm room as she packed up her belongings ahead of a
move into another university housing unit for the summer when she
decided to lie down on Thakur’s bed because her own was covered
with clothing and other possessions, the affidavit states.
The roommate said she felt Thakur touch her but thought she was
“just trying to move her” so the Bronx teen could also fall asleep
in her bed, police said.
The alleged victim told police she awoke to find Thakur “on top
of her straddling her” before grabbing her hands and placing them
on her roommate’s breasts. Thakur then started kissing her
roommate, the alleged victim told police.
“Victim reports trying to wiggle from being underneath Thakur,
and Thakur stated, ‘What did you say? You want me to suck your
nipple?” the arrest affidavit states. “Thakur then lifted victim’s
sports bra and bit her nipple.”
The victim said she tried to stop Thakur’s unwanted advances,
putting her arms across her body, but she felt “very intoxicated
and weak,” she told police.
Thakur then asked her roommate why they hadn’t “done this
before,” according to the arrest affidavit, before proceeding to
slap the victim in the face and call her “b—h” and “slut.” Thakur
also “kept hitting” her roommate in the face with her vagina, the
victim told police.
“Victim reports at this time she closed her eyes and tried to
[be] somewhere else in her mind,” the arrest affidavit
continued.
The nightmarish assault kept going as Thakur grabbed her
roommate’s hand and put it inside her vagina, the roommate said.
Thakur also placed her fingers inside the victim’s vagina with such
force that she scratched her roommate, causing her to bleed, the
woman told police.
A university spokeswoman confirmed to The Post that Thakur was
enrolled at the school for the spring semester, completing her
second year of study.
“Students who are accused of being in violation of the student
code of conduct go through a student conduct judicial process,
which could lead to sanctions up to and including expulsion,”
spokeswoman Amanda O’Rourke said in a statement. “I cannot comment
specifically on the status of this incident.”
Thakur was released from custody in Pennsylvania after posting
$10,000 cash bond, The Daily Item reports.
A message left on a phone listed in Thakur’s name was not
returned Friday. It’s unclear if she’s hired a lawyer.
(nypost.com)
Subscribe ToNairalaw News!
Read more woman-charged-with-rping-female-roommate/
Borstal Students Score Above JAMB Benchmark
Thirteen Borstal Training Institution Students of Abeokuta in
Ogun State have scored above the 160 benchmark set by the Joint
Admission Matriculation Board(JAMB).
The students who performed exceptionally well with the highest
scoring 267mark, eleven scored above 200 marks and the lowest
scoring 188 mark also participated in the just concluded West
African Examination Council(WAEC )exam and are expectant for a
favourable result in order to process their admission into various
tertiary institutions in the country.
The Controller of Prisons in charge of Abeokuta Borstal
Jemilehin was delighted with the result and the performance of the
students because it surpasses previous year’s performance.
Represented by the head teacher in her office the CP seizes the
opportunity to encourage the students to be steadfast as it’s a
stepping stone in the right direction and be resilient in their
strive to be the best in their chosen field.
Jemilehin applauded the staff, corpers, volunteer teachers and
everyone who contributed to the success recorded in the
examination.
Yusuf Raji
PRO
Bostal ABEOKUTA