The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that prosecutors in Sanford have dropped the case against Aaron Floyd, who sheriff’s deputies accused of meeting an 18-year-old woman through Match.com and raping her.
Assistant State Attorney Pat Whitaker told the newspaper “there was a very strong consent defense” and added that the woman didn’t want to prosecute.
Floyd had argued that the sex was consensual.
KnightNews.com reported in May how Floyd, 22, was an industrial engineering student at UCF, according to Facebook. Authorities had not released the age of the woman, who agreed to meet him for dinner at Orlando Alehouse in Sanford after he asked her sexual questions which made her uncomfortable a day earlier, according to the arrest report.
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The day after the dinner, May 14, is when deputies said the woman came to Floyd’s Oviedo apartment on Tattinger Lane. Deputies accused Floyd of raping the woman there, after they suggested seemingly innocent kissing escalated.
The story made national headlines, likely because deputies accused Floyd forcing the woman to drive with him in his vehicle to buy the morning after pill from a local pharmacy after the encounter.
KnightNews.com has sent Floyd a Facebook message to try and get his reaction to this major development in the story and to find out if UCF kicked him out of school before the criminal justice system had a chance to work.
Check back for updates on this story.
