The first-year University at Albany student who is accusing three football players — Lorenzo Ashbourne, Julius Harris, and Charles Guadagno — of rape signed a detailed statement on Oct. 15, witnessed by Wendy Knoebel, a University Police officer.

At the bottom of the statement, she acknowledges that it is a misdemeanor to make a false statement.

A synopsis of her statement follows:
She had been drinking shots of Grey Goose Vodka with a close friend, visiting from out of town. The two women then went to dinner off-campus together and the accuser had between four and six more shots of vodka after dinner. The women then met up with some suite-mates and went to a fraternity party in Albany. She says that she had "two beers from the keg" and "one or two shots at the party."

The women left the party early and went back to campus, arriving at about 12:50 a.m. on Sunday morning.
The accuser went outside with one of her roommates, and "we were approached by my friend Lorenzo and Jay," she says. Jay is Harris’s nickname. She said she agreed to meet the two men later.
She was "feeling kind of tired and little off balance" by the time she met up with Ashbourne and Harris, in the dorm room they share at 103 Onondaga Hall.

The three were watching the movie American Pie, when Harris told her he thought she was pretty and asked if she had a boyfriend.
"I told him no, I didn’t want to do anything with him."
Harris then started kissing her neck, she says. Ashbourne asked if she had ever been curious about the two of them. "He asked me if I had ever been with a black guy before," she says. "Lorenzo then said haven’t you ever wanted to be with two black guys, and I told him no."

She then tried to leave but the two men grabbed her wrists. They both started kissing and groping her.
"I kept telling them to stop, that I didn’t want to do anything with them and they told me I was lying."

Ashbourne then tried to unzip her pants, she says. She pleaded with them to stop, and they did, she then passed out, and was awakened with Ashbourne on top of her trying to force his penis into her mouth, she says.
"I kicked him in the leg and told him to leave me alone," she says. "He did."
She then passed out again and woke up on Ashbourne’s bed, on the top bunk. She said she was "very out of it."

Ashbourne was taking her pants off, she says, and she tried to get him to stop, but he would not.
"I tried to keep my legs shut but he forced them open," she says.
She tried to push Ashbourne off of her, but "he was too strong for me," she says.
After Ashbourne had ejaculated, she says, he told Harris he was finished, and, if he wanted to, he could "do it now."

Harris did the same, and she said she was weak, and couldn’t fight him, but told him to stop.

She passed out again, and awoke when the two men entered the room with a third man, whom she did not know. (Police later arrested Charles Guadagno.) He asked Ashbourne and Harris if it was OK to have sex with her.
"They told him that I was drunk and that I was fine with it," she says.
He asked her if she was alright, and she replied that she was "not well" and she asked him to stop, but he did not.

She scratched his back and shoulders, and he left when he was done.

Ashbourne then raped her again, she says.
"When he was finished, I was in a daze and I felt helpless, but I could tell they thought I was passed out. I felt numb and I was in pain at the same time, I didn’t know what to do at all, I was also crying."

The two men then dressed her, putting her underwear on wrong, she says, and moved her to the couch.
"Lorenzo and Jay were talking about how I wouldn’t even remember this in the morning. I believe it was Jay who asked Lorenzo if he thought I would tell anyone and Lorenzo assured him that I wouldn’t," she says. "Then they both went into their beds as if nothing had happened."

She left their room at around 5:30 a.m. and went back to her room. One of her suite-mates was setting up a bed on the floor when she returned, the statement says.

The suite-mate took a thick blanket off of her bed to cover her with, and she screamed that she didn’t want anyone else on top of her and they asked her what had happened.
"I started crying hysterically and they helped me onto the bed." She couldn’t tell them what happened. "I just told them ‘three,’" she says.
"My fly was open and they told me that I needed to go to the hospital right away."

— Rachel Dutil