You don’t just walk up to a girl and finger her without her consent in a fucking bar. This whole thing is dumb as fuck. Rape?! Gtfooh
Actually I could envision that scenario easily happening. Not at a bar like a Muphys where there’s just people standing around, but if it’s a dancing club type bar and guy gets too handsy while dancing and grabs her. Plus given how big Shannon hands are perhaps there was enough of a squeeze to cause physical damage.
I think the videotape is the key. If she doesn’t react much at all to what she claims happened, then no case. But if she turns around and abruptly confronts him and creates a scene, and that’s again on a bar camera, then it looks bad for Shannon and I think is really the only way you could bring a charge like this and get a conviction.
And I think the two charges on him are trying to distinguish touching vs penetration.
Sucks for him but he really should just pay her off if they have that type of video evidence to get it to go away and not ruin his career. Given it’s been 3 months, maybe those things were considered but never hammered out so she went forward with the case.
DA would only prosecute this case if the victim wanted it prosecuted and was willing to testify