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Is This Enough Evidence To Report Sexual Assault?

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Location: Ohio

Hello, I am 22F and this past weekend I invited what I thought was my best friend from Georgia to my apartment for a nice weekend. He proceeded to take advantage of me, constantly touching my thighs, my waist, taking it upon himself to crawl into my twin size bed and sleep with me when I was extremely drunk to the point of being sick, kissing my neck and shoulders, and grazing my breasts under my shirt, among other things. I was terrified, stood still as a statue when he was doing these things, and only on the third day did I start to shove him off me and tell him “no”. I was intending to just cut him off but now he is going around telling my friends I am “crazy” and that he is a “victim”.

What I have evidence-wise is a photo of his hand on my inner thigh before I shoved him off, a witness, and many messages where he confirms that he did not reasonably assume consent, telling others he knew I’d never feel the same way as he felt about me and “apologizing” to me for the touching and that I “didn’t deserve it”. There is years of chat history where we explicitly confirm we are platonic and one where I confronted him over my suspicions about his possible feelings and made sure we were platonic before I invited him over. In this conversation I asked him to stop making sexual jokes towards me. This could also prove a lack of consent as if I was not okay with jokes I would never be okay with this.

I really don’t want to just sit back and let this happen to me. I want to go to the police. Is this enough evidence? I know these cases are really hard to prove. There’s also the issue that he lives in a different state. What do I do? Please help.

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