Statutory Rape Deception

[GaMom2012]

My question involves criminal law for the state of: Georgia
I will try to make this as short as possible with as much detail as possible. When I was in college I made stupid decisions like most other college students; drank too much; partied too often..ect.. In the summer of 2006 I was 20 years old and on this occasion I was way too drunk to be out ain pulic and the result was that I was vulneralbe and was taken advantage of by a young guy. I had seen this person at a local bar before (that you had to be at least 18 to get in to in the first place) and at least one other late night party in this college town. I met him at a house party (I'm not sure of the location or who's house it was). I was extremely drunk, unable to walk or form sentences like a normal human being. From what (little) I remember that night, the guy mentioned above drove my truck (with me) and another friend of mine to 'his place' so we could sober up and drive home later (how nice, I thought). I don't remember much but I do remember having a 'conversation' about him telling us that he was leaving at the end of the summer to go play football at a imajor in-state university. (He certainly had the build for it -tall & stalky). I remember getting to 'his house' and falling asleep on the couch. The next thing I remembered was waking up in his bed with him on crawling off of me (obvioulsy sex had occured - at least to one of us). I believe after that i woke my friend up and we went home - don't remember which one of us drove, although neither of us should have. I have had no contact or communication with this guy since that time and I think he is scum and i hope i never have to see him again. I have never really discussed this inncident with anyone except the girl that was with me at the time and one or two other REALLY close girl friends, my mother (at a much later time), my husband and my therapist. I developed intamacy and major anxiety issues from this inncident and I have been working with a therapist to help me overcome these issues. It was not until about a month later that I learned that the guy was 16 at the time. I was scared that I was going to get in trouble even though I was the one who was taken advantage of in a horrible and humiliating way. I still to this day worry about this situation coming back to haunt me, whether it be by distroying my reputation or this guy trying to extort money out of me.. After 6 years there is absolutley zero physical evidence that this ever occured. My question is 1.) I read on other posts here that in GA the statue of limitation for staguatory rape is 7 years for a civil conviction or 4 years for a criminal conviction is that true? I can't find anything online about the 4 year criminal rule.. I understand that he was 16 at the time (although I did not know this and he lead me to believe he was going off to college), but what if this does ever develop into something and they try to say he was 15 -according to facebook his birthday is in Feb, so if he tried to say he was 15 although I know for sure, without a doubt it did not occur until mid/late summer (I did not get out of a 3 year relationship until late April). I really don't believe that someone would be interested in pursuing this case in the first place after all the time that has passed, but I would like to know if I could get in trouble one day? 2. My second question is, do I have any rights still or have I let too much time pass? Would it be worth pursuing something with no evidence or just a waste of my time and money? I don't think I would want to pursue anyhting though and ruin a person's life becasue he made a stupid decision. Thank you for any input and I appologive for spelling erroros - typing on a tablet is difficult for me..

[p.doman]

http://www.rainn.org/pdf-files-and-o...iaStatutes.pdf

[aardvarc]

The age of consent in GA in 2006 was 16. No issue there. If he was actually 15 on the date in question, it doesn't matter "how" 15 he was, there could be potential issues for you. As you were likely unable to legally give consent to sexual activity due to your extensive state of inebriation, there could be potential problems for him, regardless of his age. But with no evidence, no injuries, and your drunken state which makes you a terrible witness for the state, there's almost zero possiblity that a prosecutor will take an interest in a case against either of you at this point. You'll say sex occurred, he'll say it didn't. Nowhere for the prosecutor to go from there.

[Disagreeable]

You do realize how foolish you will sound to a prosecutor, saying you might have been raped, however, you were so hammered you do not remember for sure what happened, except that it occurred with a minor.