Two unrelated Bloomington women each reported a sexual assault Wednesday, according to police records.
At about 2:48 p.m. Wednesday, a 40-year-old woman called the Bloomington Police Department to report an alleged rape she said took place in October 2015.
She decided to report the assault to police Wednesday because she discovered photos of herself in her former boyfriend’s computer files showing her partially nude and changing clothing, BPD Lt. John Kovach said, reading off of a report.
The woman said in October, her then-boyfriend, 37, was intoxicated and at her residence. He told her he was going to drive home and she urged him not to drive while intoxicated and told him he could sleep at her house instead.
The couple fell asleep, and the woman woke up to the man forcing himself on her, Kovach said. They then got into an argument about the definition of rape, she said. The woman told him it was not consensual, but the man said that it was.
Later that day, the two of them attended a family function together, and afterward they had consensual sex, Kovach said. They had consensual sex again days later.
After seeing the photos of herself, which she had not given her boyfriend permission to take, she decided to pursue rape charges against him. The case remains under investigation, Kovach said.
In a separate case, a 32-year-old woman called police at 4:48 p.m. Wednesday from the Kroger at Seminary Square to report a sexual assault.
She reported that she had been with a man that she knew at his house on the 500 block of South College Avenue that night. She had taken what she thought was Tylenol P.M. but she was feeling “funny.”
At one point she woke up and noticed that he was naked. She was not sure if anything had happened between them, but she felt dirty, she told police.
She left the house and went to Kroger to call BPD. A detective then met the woman at Kroger and took her to the hospital for a sexual assault nurse examination.
However, the woman left the hospital shortly afterward, before receiving treatment. A BPD detective called the woman, and she told him she still hoped to pursue charges, and she would return to the hospital.
After returning to the hospital, the woman told a nurse she wanted medication to help calm her nerves. The nurse told her she would have to wait to talk to the doctor in order to receive medication prior to the exam.
The woman then became upset and left the hospital before receiving treatment, Kovach said.
Both cases remain under police investigation.
Samantha Schmidt
