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DomImus -> RE: Tied up Rape Victim saved by Pizza Delivery (6/5/2009 2:44:03 AM)
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Lawyer: Alleged rape victim was dating ‘abductor’ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Friday, June 05, 2009
The Atlanta woman who claimed she was kidnapped and raped by a Snellville software engineer was secretly dating her alleged abductor, according to court documents filed late Thursday.
David Joseph Jansen’s attorney filed a motion in Sevier County General Sessions Court in Tennessee asking that his client’s bond be reduced from $400,000 on the aggravated rape and aggravated kidnapping charges against him to $50,000 each, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports.
Arguing for the reduced bail, Knoxville lawyer Donald A. Bosch said Jansen took a polygraph examination that indicates he was telling the truth to investigators when he said the sex with his accuser in a Smoky Mountains cabin was consensual.
The motion says the woman “orchestrated the May 26, 2009, kidnapping/rape as her bondage fantasy.” According to the court documents, Jansen and the woman met in 2008 at Tattletale’s, an Atlanta strip club where the alleged victim worked as a dancer.
They later began dating, and on April 9 the woman told Jansen she was divorcing her husband.
She also told him that she “was sexually aroused by bondage” and suggested the out-of-town trip, telling him to bring “rope, sex toys, massage oil and extra clothing for her,” the documents allege.
Associates in Atlanta had previously confirmed the woman’s interest in bondage role play.
On the trip to Sevier County, the motion says, the couple made three stops and a security video from one of the stops shows she had ample opportunity to escape or call for help but did not.
The video shows that Jansen went inside a store to shop and left the woman in the car at the gas pumps unattended for seven minutes, according to WXIA-TV. Other customers were visible in the video while the woman was alone in the car, and she made no effort to alert any of them, WXIA said.
The motion also references the woman’s two convictions, for filing a false rape claim in Cherokee County nd fabricating an assault allegation in Fannin County. She’s currently serving probation for the latter offense.
The court document filed Thursday claims the accuser has had psychological problems. Bosch’s motion says there is a “low probability of conviction” of Jansen, the News Sentinel reports.
An old friend of the accuser said Thursday the 24-year-old woman has been married twice.
“She was a really quiet girl,” said Amanda Crapps, who graduated with the alleged victim from Early County High School in Blakely. The woman had a hardscrabble upbringing but dreamed big.
“She always had high hopes,” Crapps said.
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