Pros and Cons by Don Yaeger, Jeff Benedict

interview with prosecutors, Jensen detailed the difficulty Simmons was having trying to have intercourse with her. “He started lickin’ his fingers. … All I remember from then on is just feeling something. It was like he was pushing down on me and then he was trying to get inside of me, my vagina and it just, I was trying my best to squirm, but you have 300 pounds on top of you. I guess he realized that the position he had me in wasn’t working for him. He asked me to move … so I said, ‘Let me up and I’ll move.’”
    Jensen said that when Simmons let her up she grabbed her underwear and tried to dart for the door. “ ‘Unt, unt,’” she recalled him saying. “ ‘I already pulled those off for a reason.’ I said, ‘No, I’m going back downstairs to find Emily.’ And he said, ‘No you’re not.’ And he grabbed me and walked me back up the stairs and laid me down. That’s when he moved the brick. I guess it was in his way. He laid me down on the cement. He laid on top of me and went back inside. He, I guess, ejaculated before, “‘when we were on the steps cause it was all over on the back of my dress. Cause I remember when I stood up and put my underwear back on it felt wet.”
    When Jensen recalled this part of the incident to the detective, he asked for clarification. The following excerpt is from the transcript:
     
    DETECTIVE : Was his penis still out?
    JENSEN : Yes.
    DETECTIVE : And …
    JENSEN : At that time it was.
    DETECTIVE : And was it still erect?
    JENSEN : Uh huh.
    DETECTIVE : Okay. Had you felt the wet spot on your dress yet?
    JENSEN : Yeah. I felt it the minute I stood up after he had, when he turned me around and I stood up to try and … walk off.
    DETECTIVE : Okay. Then what happened.
    JENSEN : … [H]e laid me down. That’s when I started telling him to stop. … And he said, “No. I only need a few more minutes.”
    DETECTIVE : Uh huh.
    JENSEN : And he pulled my dress up. He pulled my underwear down to my ankles and he kind of like I guess bent my legs up and spread ‘em out.
    DETECTIVE : Uh huh.
    JENSEN : And that’s when he I guess penetrated me, started moving a lot.
     
    When it was over, according to Jensen, “He got up, zipped his pants and told me his phone number and said he would call me and we’ll talk about it.”
    Near the end of her interview with the detective, Jensen was asked if Simmons hit or slapped her during the incident. “He not so much threatened me,” Jensen explained. “But just pretty much kept saying you know, my status against your status, you’re nothing.”
    “Were there any other sexual acts?” asked the detective. “Did you have to touch his private part?”
    “He tried to put it in my face one time and I told him no,” Jensen answered. “When he had my shoulders, it was right there in my face. And I moved my head away. I don’t know if he was making … that that’s what he wanted me to do or not.”
    J ensen’s friends drove her to Candler Hospital after the incident. Jensen was examined by a Dr. Pohl, to whom she recounted the incident. She then told him that she was a virgin at the time of the attack. According to police reports, Dr. Pohl found “redness in the vaginal area and that she had a tear in the six o’clock position in the vaginal opening.” A diagram was drawn describing the exact location of the injury, and then placed in the case file. Bruising was also detected in the mid-back area and on her neck, injuries which were photographed by a police photographer. According to a report filled out at the hospital, “Dr. Pohl advised … that these injuries are consistent with the Victim’s story.”
    Following the exam, Jensen was given a prescription for a morning-after pill, advised to have a pregnancy test performed two weeks from the date of the incident, introduced to a rape crisis counselor, and interviewed by a police investigator. All of Jensen’s clothing (white shoes, a blue half-slip, white panties, a bra,