An investigative collaboration of 11 news organizations led by Carolina Public Press and reporting on sexual assault convictions in North Carolina was published this week. But, she told Fayetteville, N. She thought what happened to her was rape, but she found out that under North Carolina law a woman is not allowed to back out of sex once it is underway. The Fayetteville Observer does not ordinarily identify victims of sex crimes, but Palmer wanted to go public with her story.
The Observer is not naming the man involved in the incident because he has not been charged with a crime. Way, ruled that women cannot revoke consent after sexual intercourse begins. Jeff Jackson, a Democratic state senator who represents Mecklenburg County, is working to get the law changed. He said many other women have approached him privately about cases in which they withdrew consent for sex, but the law would not permit the men to be charged.
Jackson is the sponsor of Senate Bill , which would criminalize the failure to stop intercourse when a woman who had originally consented changed her mind. He said it will probably be dead for the rest of the two-year legislative session. Palmer is at least the second woman in the last two months to come forward publicly with a story about withdrawing consent for sex only to learn that the man involved would not face a rape charge.
She consented at first, but said she told him to stop after the encounter became violent. Court records do not indicate whether the man she accused of rape was a soldier as well. Palmer said she and a friend met the man and his friend John Nagy, a soldier, on Tinder Social, a mobile app to connect people. Around p. Palmer said she and the man went into a second apartment and the man pulled her into a bathroom.
Palmer said she initially consented to have sex with him, but then asked him to stop after he started to pull out hanks of her hair about five minutes into the encounter. The probable cause affidavits in the case files of the soldiers charged in connection with the videotaping provide some corroborating detail. During the incident, the affidavits said, Palmer noticed that a cellphone had been placed at the bottom of the door and appeared to be creating a video of the incident.
