Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, December 6, 1994 TAG: 9412060111
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI AND MATT CHITTUM
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Salem police arrested Paul A. Jordan, 23, of the 500 block of Kellogg Avenue Northwest, after a 15-year-old girl told college security officers that he had raped her after a party.
Neither Jordan nor the girl is a student at the college.
Police released few details about the incident, but did say it occurred at a residence hall at 335 Campus Lane. Salem Commonwealth's Attorney Fred King said the girl was visiting her sister at the college and that she met Jordan at the party.
Jordan, a 1991 graduate of William Byrd, was known for his athletic ability. He was one of a group of players on the school's basketball team known as the "Three Amigos."
Jordan said Monday that he went to visit a friend's girlfriend at Roanoke College on Friday night. He said he attended a party at the residence hall and met the victim. They began to kiss on the steps and then she led him to a second-floor room, where they had sex, he said.
"After five minutes, I realized what was going on," Jordan said. "So I stopped.
"She never said, 'No,' she never said, 'Stop,''' he added. "I thought there was justice, that you were innocent until proven guilty. I am very much innocent."
Jordan said he recently finished a tour with the U.S. Navy and expects to start school in January at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
He is scheduled to be arraigned in Salem Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court this week.
by CNB