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College Student Sentenced to Over 12 Years In Prison For Rape But Didn’t Have Sex With Victim

The case of Albert N. Wilson sounds like something out of an episode ofLaw and Order SVU. Wilson, a former University of Kansas student, attended a bar with a friend and met a girl who was visiting a family member who attended KU. The two were underage and under the influence when they left the bar to go back to Wilson’s apartment. What happened next has changed both of their lives, leaving Wilson with a sentence of over 12 years in prison for rape, despite the notion that the two didn’t have sex.

Lawrence Journal-World reports Wilson was given the sentence on Wednesday (April 3) in addition to a lifetime of probation and a mandatory sex offender title for the events that transpired in September 2016. Wilson, who was 20 at the time, met the then-17-year-old girl at popular college spot Jayhawk Cafe. While Wilson used a friend’s ID to get into the bar, the young woman and her cousin who attended KU weren’t carded.

Both parties agreed that they met while heading to the dance floor (weirdly titled the “Boom Boom Room”) and danced with one another. Wilson allegedly lifted up the girl’s skirt and touched her while they kissed. Shortly after, Wilson invited the girl back to his place, which was walking distance from the bar. Neither party apparently asked about each other’s age.

The victim claimed Wilson took her back to his place where he raped her but Wilson shared a different story with the jury. “She didn’t seem intoxicated at all,” Wilson said as he claimed the two kissed and engaged in other sex acts but never had sexual intercourse.

Kansas Bureau of Investigation scientists testified that Wilson’s DNA was found on the girl’s chest — where he said he kissed her — but no seminal fluid or DNA was found. Swabs were collected from the girl the day after the incident from a nurse a local hospital. Photos of bruises were also taken on her inner thigh.

During the trial, Wilson maintained his innocence and explained why he initially claimed he didn’t remember what happened at his apartment. “I don’t know how to explain this, but I come from a different background than you, ma’am,” said Wilson, who is black to Judge Sally Pokorny, who is white. “… I just felt like the police [were] against me at that point.”

Wilson’s court-appointed attorney Forrest Lowry stated that the former student wasn’t the man he was painted to be in the trial. The now 23-year-old was a Wichita Southeast High School football player with no criminal record. He earned his associate degree from a community college before transferring to KU and had dreams of becoming a sports journalist.

“It was a chance meeting. Obviously, my client misread what was going on,” Lowry said in court. “…If there was ever a case that deserved a departure of any kind, I think this is it.”

After a six-hour deliberation, the all-white jury convicted Wilson of rape. Wilson was given the reported “lowest end of what’s called for by Kansas sentencing guidelines for rape.”

The case has gained attention, including supporters creating a website detailing some questionable aspects of the incident. Video surveillance showed the two engaging with one another throughout their encounter and that they were only at the apartment for five minutes before they headed back to the bar.

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It’s not about race, y’all. It’s never about race…

We’re no longer in the slavery and Jim Crow days of “keeping an uppity nigger in their place.” It’s not about race.

Stop being silly. This is not the New Jim Crow. It’s not about race.

A white girl’s claim (carrying on the tradition of her white women ancestors) about a Black man sexually violating her despite the DNA and video evidence showing otherwise. But it’s not about race. 

An all-white jury and a white judge (carrying on the traditions of their white ancestors). But it’s not about race.

Twelve years for kissing and touching a white girl. But it’s not about race.

Having a lifetime of probation, paying a lifetime of probation fees, going back to prison if he’s at the wrong place at the wrong time or misses a probation fee, and having to register as a sex offender for not sexually violating a white girl. But it’s not about race.

Brock Turner, a white man who was labeled a “boy” by news outlets, was sentenced to six months for indeed raping an intoxicated, unconscious woman behind a dumpster because the judge “believed the defendant felt genuine remorse and didn’t want to ruin his life.” But it’s not about race.

He only did 3 months. But it’s not about race.

There are no codes in place against Black people to make sure they are continually oppressed and fulfill the standards created for Black people (i.e. mass incarceration, legal servitude in prison) by white people for centuries. It’s not about race. It’s just about class now, right? We live in a progressive society…

If you’d like to see the full timeline on what happened that night between Albert and that now-white girl woman who’s identity is withheld for this bullshit, go to freealbertwilson.com. 

The last woman, Nikki Yovino, was sentenced to a year. I doubt she even did half of that.

“Public lynchings taught white girls and women that, for all the legal constraints they faced in most aspects of their lives, their accusations of rape or improper behavior, which they lodged against African-American men, women, and children, would be taken seriously. 

When we acknowledge that white girls and women were able to exercise power in this nation, from its colonial beginnings, because of their whiteness it becomes easier to understand why white women vested in white supremacy and white supremacist activities and movements long after slavery.“

A GoFundMe account that had been set up to help Wilson’s family to pay for his appeal has been deleted by the crowdfunding organization. At the time it was deleted, the page had raised $2520 of a $50,000 goal. The page says that “Albert faced an all-white jury.” Another section of the blurb reads, “There was no DNA evidence linking him to the crime.” The page also refers to Wilson as an “aspiring journalist and college student.” At the time of his arrest, Wilson was studying to become a sports journalist as an online student with the University of Kansas.

GoFundMe later said that the campaign was in violation of their policies for being “in support of, or for the legal defense of alleged crimes associated with hate, violence, harassment, bullying, discrimination, terrorism or intolerance of any kind.”

The page also notes that the retention fee for an appellate lawyer is between $15,000 and $20,000. The GoFundMe page ends with a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that reads, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” At the time of writing, a Change.org petition regarding Wilson’s case has received over 13,000 signatures.

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This is the only article I found that even mentions trying to obtain an appeal for him. The concern level seems damn near mute. Why? Hell, I only know about this story because I stumbled across it. The website in his name, freealbertwilson.com, gives the timeline of that night followed by a donation link for you to fill out your email and donation amount. That’s it? No mention of even trying to go for an appeal? 

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