“I was positive it was him,” Thompson-Cannino said Tuesday afternoon while speaking at Neumann University. A few days later, she identified 22-year-old Ronald Cotton, a light-skinned African-American man with a pencil-thin mustache, from a police line up. Thompson-Cannino initially described her rapist to a police sketch artist. She remembered every facial feature, style and color of clothing, height, weight, gait, and accent of her attacker, so he could be identified. I would be terrified if this had happened to me.ASTON > Jennifer Thompson-Cannino was a 22 year-old college senior in 1984 when she was brutally attacked and raped while sleeping in her off-campus apartment. I don’t know how she could remain so calm. Why would anyone like being raped? It’s all just a terrifying process. Why didn’t she fight back? Why didn’t she leave to get help sooner? I also don’t understand why Paul asked her if she liked being raped. Through the process I was wandering why she just laid there when her rapist was sitting on her. Afterwards Detective Gauldin told her that it was the same guy she has picked from the photos. They went through the process of identification, then she was able to identify number five as her rapist. She was told that her rapist may or may not be one of them. There were seven guys lined up in front of her. Eleven days after her assault, Jennifer was called in to do a line up. She was able to pick which one she was positive was her rapist. “The pictures were dealt like card: six on top and six on the bottom.” Jennifer was told to take her time and study each picture carefully. Detective Gauldin layed down six photos of black males. It was three days after her rape when the Burlington police called to have Jennifer come look at some pictures. In chapter two Jennifer left her apartment in Burlington and went to stay with her mom in Grandfather Mountain for a while. A man then sprung up and sat on her legs and held a knife to her neck. She covered her head then looked over next to her night stand and seen the top of someone’s head. Afterwards, she felt something gaze her arm. She looked around and didn’t see anything so she went back to sleep. A few hours after he left Jennifer woke up to the sound of feet shuffling. Paul slipped out while Jennifer was sleeping. Since she wasn’t feeling well, Paul got her a glass of water and some aspirin and rubbed her back until she fell asleep. In chapter one, Jennifer and Paul, her boyfriend at the time, had just got back from Pauls’ friends’ party where Jennifer started getting a headache behind her eyes.
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