Student arrested for sex crime at TI

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The charges against Anderson were later dropped and his record expunged. Anderson did not enter a guilty plea.

A student was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with aggravated criminal sexual contact and lewdness in an incident involving a female student at Tiger Inn, Borough police said Monday.

Stuart Anderson '07 was charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual contact and one count of lewdness. He was released on bail Sunday.

The female student, who sustained no major physical injuries, was taken to McCosh Health Center and provided with counseling, University communications director Lauren Robinson-Brown '85 said.

"Precautions have been taken, and we are reasonably assured that the alleged assailant is not a danger to anyone in the Princeton community at this time," Robinson-Brown added.

Public Safety received a call from a student at 5:35 a.m. Sunday asking officers to report to Foulke Hall, where Anderson was "being held by other students," according to the department's daily media log.

One of Anderson's roommates, reached by The Daily Princetonian, declined to comment, and other students in the vicinity of Anderson's room in Foulke said they were unfamiliar with the incident.

Anderson and the other students were brought to Public Safety's offices for questioning, Public Safety deputy director Charles Davall said. After Public Safety learned the assault had occurred off-campus at TI, Borough police took over the case, arresting Anderson at 7:13 a.m. and continuing the investigation at TI and Foulke Hall, Borough police's Lt. Dennis McManimon said.

Anderson, 20, was charged and released on $2,500 bail. The amount was set at 10 percent of the $25,000 posted bail allowed by law because he was not considered a flight risk and had no prior offenses, McManimon said.

Should Anderson plead or be found guilty, he will have to register as a sex offender, local attorney Ed Kahn, who has no connection to the case, explained in an interview.

Anderson currently remains a Princeton student, but the University will take disciplinary action if he is found guilty, Robinson-Brown said.

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The incident is the second in recent weeks involving trouble at TI, which was warned last month for serving alcohol to a 17-year-old prospective student.

A Mercer County prosecutor and detective told the officers of the Ivy Club and TI that legal action would result if they did not enforce club policies regarding underage drinking.

TI officials did not return requests seeking comment, and Anderson is not a member of the club.

Last month, a local resident was charged with criminal sexual contact, criminal attempt to commit sexual contact and criminal restraint after allegedly groping a female student in a bathroom stall in Frist Campus Center.

The last known incident perpetrated by a University student occurred in the spring, when former mathematics graduate student Michael Lohman was arrested for a series of sexual incidents involving Asian women on campus. Lohman is no longer a student.

— Includes reporting by Princetonian Senior Writer Chanakya Sethi.