4.2.12 WC: 191694 Our investigation also uncovered that Desiree’s father had a history of violence toward her. According to a news report, Desiree’s mother had her father arrested and charged with assault and battery against Desiree. “In her account,” reported in the media, “Desiree alleged to the police that her father ‘hit me and pushed my head under the sink...He continued slamming my head into the wall and the floor. I freed myself and reached for a knife to protect myself.’” A sworn statement by the mother reportedly said that her husband “flew off the handle” when Desiree told him “she had lost her virginity.” In order to avoid his fury once again, this time for having consensual sex with Tyson, she apparently decided to cry rape once again. At first, she said that he had "tried" to rape her. She initially denied having sex with Tyson. Then she said they had sex "on the floor." She told the female chaplain at the hospital that there had been some "participation" and consensual physical involvement on her part, before he forced her. Finally, she settled on the account she gave at trial: that he had raped her on the bed with no prior consensual involvement on her part. No one except Tyson and Washington knows exactly what went on behind the closed doors of his hotel room. There was no videotape. Nor was there any physical evidence to corroborate Washington’s unlikely story. Indeed, the available physical evidence completely undercuts her story. She was wearing a sequin-studded outfit, which she claims Tyson “yanked” off her as he “slammed [her] down on the bed.” If that had happened, there would have been sequins all over the hotel room. Indeed, at the trial, when the dress was gingerly introduced into evidence, sequins fell off in the courtroom. But only one sequin was found in Tyson’s hotel room after the allegedly forcible rape. Nor were there any bruises—external or internal—found on Ms. Washington that were consistent with her account of how Tyson had “forc