Florida football player stops sexual assault

[kybobcat_rivals185207]

University of Florida football player Cristian Garcia saved teen from rape behind bar dumpster

A heroic University of Florida football player helped save an incapacitated teen from an alleged sexual assault behind a bar’s dumpster, a rescue that may have led cops to a serial sex offender.

Cristian Garcia, a linebacker for the UF football team, witnessed the alleged attack about 2 a.m. Thursday when he was taking out the trash at the Gainesville, Fla., bar 101 Cantina, where he works security.

At first glance, he believed the 19-year-old victim and the suspect, Christopher Lee Shaw, were having consensual sex as they were pressed up against the dumpster, but then realized the woman was incoherently drunk.

“The girl was basically unconscious, so I knew there was no way she could be giving consent,” Garcia told First Coast News.

Garcia, along with another man, then pulled Shaw, 34, away from the teenage victim.

“I turned around and pulled the guy by the shoulder and said, ‘Get off.’ That pretty much ended the situation then. He was intoxicated and attempted to throw some punches, but he slipped and busted his face on the wall,” he told GatorSports.com.​

"He was intoxicated and attempted to throw some punches, but he slipped and busted his face on the wall.”

[smoke]

 

[Lempface]

Nice work! Glad to hear some positive stories from time to time.

 

[KyCatFan_rivals45723]

The old slipped and busted his face on the wall trick. Regardless he deserved whatever happened to him.

 

[jameslee32]

The net we live in today says, < half a page.

 

[BankerCat12]

Good story. Hope they busted that dudes face up bad. Having a 3yr old about to be 4yr daughter def makes me more protective than ever.

 

[jockstrap_mcgee]

And I bet that wall has some mean knuckles.

 

[WayneDougan_rivals170043]

So net rapes for Florida football players went from 10,000 to 9,999.

 

[Get Buckets]

This is why I come to catpaw tbh

 

[jwheat]

Why isn't there a pic posted of the girl

 

[funKYcat75]

"Shaw, 34, was immediately offered a scholarship by University of Louisville head coach Bobby Petrino."

 

[TruBluCatFan]

The cynic in me says what really happened is that Garcia was jealous/pissed Shaw got to her first after he had spent so much time getting her good and liquored up all night -- but I could be wrong.

Don't be that guy. Sounds like a kid who truly tried to do the right thing.

 

[Kooky Kats]

"Shaw, 34, was immediately offered a scholarship by University of Louisville head coach Bobby Petrino."

"Rick Barnes, 57, preemptively withdrew consideration for reading such a weak post from perennial Paddock All-Star, @funKYcat75."

 

[Saguaro Cat]

The rapist attempted to pull a knife, but accidentally stepped on his own balls.