A month before the rape accusation became public, the university’s
victim advocate learned that a second woman had sought counseling after a
sexual encounter with Mr. Winston, according to the prosecutor’s
office. The woman did not call it rape — she did not say “no.” But the
encounter, not previously reported, “was of such a nature that she felt
violated or felt that she needed to seek some type of counseling for her
emotions about the experience,” according to Georgia Cappleman, the
chief assistant state attorney, who said she had spoken with the
advocate but not with the woman.
The victim advocate was concerned enough about the episode to have alerted Mr. Winston’s first accuser.
Ms. Cappleman said that based on what she was told, a crime had not been
committed. Nonetheless, Ms. Cappleman said she found the encounter
troubling, because it “sheds some light on the way Mr. Winston operates”
and on what may be “a recurring problem rather than some type of
misunderstanding that occurred in an isolated situation.”
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