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By Carolyn Potts
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:17 a.m.

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A woman said Monday two men sexually assaulted her Saturday night on the corner of West Gorham and Broom streets.

According to Joel DeSpain, public information officer for the Madison Police Department, the 18-year-old woman said she was walking back from Riley’s Wines of the World around 9 p.m. when two men grabbed her.

The woman, who is not a University of Wisconsin student, alleged that the two men grabbed her by the arms and dragged her several feet into a nearby alley, where the taller man proceeded to grope her. She also told police that the taller man pulled down his own pants and underwear.

According to the police report, the woman said she struggled and was able to run away from the two men.

The woman described one of her attackers as a black, 50-year-old male with dark skin and missing teeth. He also has a scar below one ear and was wearing a torn black jacket with brown fur around the hood.

The second perpetrator is described as a black male who is 6-feet-3-inches to 6-feet-4-inches tall and very thin. He had a trimmed moustache and a goatee and was wearing a thigh-length “fluffy camouflage jacket,” blue jeans with light blue and dark blue squares and a baseball cap.

Police will continue to investigate this report.

“We are trying to find these two people and ask them what they were doing Saturday night,” DeSpain said.

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Anonymous | February 13, 2008 9:03 AM | Reply
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I know this is a terrible thing, but did anyone else notice that an 18 YEAR OLD walking back from a LIQUOR STORE?

Anonymous | February 13, 2008 10:05 AM | Reply
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haha wow. did the police think that was a bit off?

Anonymous | February 13, 2008 12:20 PM | Reply
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ummm…. i think the focus is on the sexual assault that was perpetrated here. Cops don’t have any evidence to what she was doing coming from the liquor store, so they can’t investigate that.