https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...dent-stalking-notebook-found-authorities-say/
On Oct. 12, in Madison, Wis., a female student went to police and filed a complaintagainst a 20-year-old student by the name of Alec Cook.
She said she and Cook had originally contacted each other via Facebook and gotten together four or five times since then, always in public.
But then, after studying with him at a college library, they went to his apartment near the campus where he started kissing her, at first lightly, then forcefully. She says she told him to stop several times, the Wisconsin State Journal said, citing a police report, until he sexually assaulted her repeatedly. When she tried to leave, he at first refused.
Had it ended with that alleged incident, which Cook’s lawyer denies, it would have been bad enough.
After news got out that he had been charged with the alleged assault, the floodgates opened.
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By Tuesday of this week, according to a police detective’s affidavit quoted by WKOW-TV, dozens of women had come forward ‘“wanting to speak about … acts related to Cook.’”
Dean of Students Lori Berquam issued her own statement on Oct. 21, noting that the student had been placed on emergency leave from the university “based on the severity of the allegations and the potential impact on the campus community …”
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A Dane County prosecutor, Collette Sampson, said the man would be charged with 30 counts, including felony sexual assault, false imprisonment, and strangulation in connection with alleged sexual assaults on four women.
Now, said Sampson, police believe Cook has been sexually assaulting women since March 2015, growing progressively more aggressive.
She said that when they searched his apartment, they found a notebook documenting what she called “grooming and stalking techniques.”
According to WKOW, the notebook included a series of women’s names. “‘Each entry showed how he met the female, and what he liked about them. Further entries went on to document what he wanted to do with the females,'” the station said, quoting a police detective’s affidavit supporting a search warrant in the case.
“‘Disturbingly enough there were statements of ‘kill’ and statements of ‘sexual desires.’”
There were at least 20 notebooks found in his apartment, said the county prosecutor, though so far only one has been inspected.
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Cook is said to be from Edina, Minn., a 2014 Edina High School graduate, and a former member of Phi Delta Theta, from which he has now been “separated” according to Wisconsin’s student paper, the Daily Cardinal.
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