A freshman male has been charged by the Princeton Borough Police with kidnapping, aggravated assault, endangerment of an injured victim and making terroristic threats, The Times of Trenton reported on Saturday.
The Times article, which covered the defendant’s bail hearing in Trenton on Friday, reported that Mercer County Superior Court judge Thomas Kelly has banned the defendant, Malik Little, 19, from University premises and cut his bail in half to $200,000 but refused to reduce it to the $20,000 requested by the defense.
Little was no longer enrolled at the University as of April 10, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ’96 said in an interview, adding that Public Safety “is fully aware that Mr. Little is not permitted on campus. Officers can readily identify Mr. Little if he were to come to campus, and he will be taken into custody [if he does so].”
Cliatt declined to confirm the specific charges against Little as well as other details of the case.
“It doesn’t appear at this time that he will return to campus,” she added.
An undergraduate familiar with the situation whose name is being withheld because of the delicate nature of the matter said that the situation “is very complicated.”
“Malik has a lot of issues,” the individual said. “He is not someone who should be underestimated. It’s not as black and white as it seems.”
Little was arrested by local police on April 12 in Hillstown, Pa., as a fugitive from justice, according to The Intelligencer, a Pennsylvania newspaper.
At around 1 a.m. on March 9, Public Safety responded to a report of a woman crying for help in the defendant’s room in Edwards Hall but took no action after she told him that she was fine, Mercer County Assistant Prosecutor Amy Devenny said at the hearing, according to the Trenton Times.
In early April, however, the woman ended her relationship with the defendant, filed a restraining order against him and told Borough Police that Little had allegedly “hit her repeatedly, elbowed her and kicked her,” Devenny told the Trenton Times, adding that Little did not use his hands because “he is a pianist” and did not want to injure his fingers.
When she attmpted to escape, Little “allegedly choked and had a sock stuffed in her mouth to quiet her.”
Devenny also said that the woman had become pregnant shortly prior to ending her relationship with Little, and Little allegedly threatened to kill her if she had an abortion.

The freshman woman is currently receiving counseling, and photos of her injuries are being presented in the case as evidence, the Trenton Times reported.
Though the Trenton Times quoted Devenny as saying that the alleged victim reported the threat to the University to no avail before contacting Borough Police, Cliatt defended the University’s handling of the matter.
The University’s “action in this matter was very timely and responded to the many complicated aspects of this case,” Cliatt said, explaining that “as various individuals across campus became aware of this situation, they became responsive.”
She added that “cases that involve a level of violence are referred to the Borough.”
Devenny told the Trenton Times that her office will investigate the claim that the University “should have taken more steps” to investigate the matter after receiving seven or eight reports “from impartial witnesses that he was hitting and beating her.”
The defendant’s attorney, Jack Furlong, also called the University’s conduct “nothing short of reprehensible,” according to the Trenton Times. Furlong added that when a Public Safety officer arrived on the scene during the March 9 incident, he observed no evidence of bruising on the woman.
Little’s RCA, Brandee Tate ’09, said in an interview, “I think the University is responding the best way they can.”
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