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I’d known him by then about two years and I’d never known him to be anything but a decent guy

She was representing a cartoon character, she said, and she recalled being annoyed that the blue paint on her arms had smeared on her favourite dress.

Consequently, when she returned to her dormitory by cab — after an extended stopover at McDonald’s with her fellow cadets — she said she went directly to her room, changed and took her dress to the bathroom to wash out the stains.

“I made a big mess” in the bathroom, she recalled, and afterward, she said, she hung the dress on a little hook in her room and went to bed.

“I was really drunk and I was really tired and I just wanted to go to bed.”

She remembered setting three alarms to wake her in time for morning classes, explaining that she’s a heavy sleeper. And, she estimated, she’d been asleep about 10 or 15 minutes when she was awakened by knocking at her door.

I know that I tried to stop him, but I don’t think I was successful at the time

She told d’Auteuil it was Whitehead, and she let him in and went back to her bed, unconcerned “because I’d known him by then about two years and I’d never known him to be anything but a decent guy.”

On that occasion, however, she said, Whitehead sat down near her head and tried to kiss her.

The woman said she’d previously made it known that she would never consider dating him, in part because he’d dated one of her friends. She said she “jerked back,” intending to back up against the wall, but ended up banging her head against it, and Whitehead tried to undress her and ended up on top of her.

I know that I was completely terrified and unable to fight back. I know I tried to push him off me

“He took my dress off,” she told the judge, adding: “I know that I tried to stop him, but I don’t think I was successful at the time.”