US student arrested for 're-enacting' scene from 50 Shades of Grey
A university student leader was charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old female student in what prosecutors said was part of a re-enactment of scenes from the film 50 Shades of Grey.
A university student leader was charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old female student in what prosecutors said was part of a re-enactment of scenes from the film .
University of Illinois (UIC) at Chicago student Mohammad Hossain, 19, appeared shocked on Monday after a judge set his bail at US$500,000.
The judge was taken aback after Hossain's lawyer, public defender Sandra Bennewitz, said Hossain had been involved with several UIC leadership programmes, was a student ambassador to the alumni association and was on the triathlon team.
"Sandra, how can someone involved in all that let a movie persuade him to do something like this?" asked Judge Adam Bourgeois Jnr.
"He would say that it was consensual," she replied.
Prosecutors said Hossain and the woman went to Hossain's dorm room on Saturday. The two had "previously been intimate" but were not dating, said the assistant prosecutor, Sarah Karr. Once inside his dorm, Hossain allegedly asked the woman to remove her clothing and she did, keeping on her bra and underwear, Karr said. He then bound her hands above her head and to a bed with a belt, used another belt to bind her legs and stuffed a necktie into her mouth, Karr said.
