2 S.C. STUDENTS ON SPRING BREAK CHARGED WITH TECH WOMAN'S RAPE

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, March 12, 1993                   TAG: 9303120004
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-12   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: KEY WEST, FLA.                                LENGTH: Short
2 S.C. STUDENTS ON SPRING BREAK CHARGED WITH TECH WOMAN'S RAPE
Two University of South Carolina students on spring break have been charged with raping a Virginia Tech student aboard a houseboat, authorities said.
Richard Cyphers, 23, and Daryl Norman, 22, were charged Wednesday with one count each of second-degree sexual battery of the 20-year-old woman. Monroe County Judge Susan Vernon released them pending trial.
Under terms of their release, the pair must report twice a day to a pretrial program monitor, are prohibited from drinking alcohol and must have no contact with the alleged victim.
The alleged victim and a friend met Cyphers and Norman in the early-morning hours on Duval Street, this resort city's most popular strip of nightspots, police Detective Ken Hock said.
All four students said they had been drinking. The women said they accepted a ride to their hotel from Norman and Cyphers, who suggested they stop first at the houseboat the men were renting, Hock said.
Police reports said Norman and the alleged victim went to the upper deck of the houseboat, where Norman allegedly forced her to have sex.
"She said she told him, `No, no, no. I don't want to do this,' " Hock said. Cyphers then went to the upper deck and also raped the woman, the report said.
In police interviews, both Norman and Cyphers denied raping the woman. They told officers she agreed to have sex with them.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB