I also don't think he would have had to necessarily force her to take the cocaine, but may have attempted a sexual assault as a "spur of the moment" thing while she was overdosing and dying, rather than helping her.
Well, isn't his story the only reason why we're assumming that she had any drug past? Was it ever stated that she was tested and had traces of different types of substances used sometime prior to her death? Cause if not...
Drug users are taking drugs dozens, hundreds of times without OD. Some never OD. And those who do are at highest risk of it while they're:
a) just starting and have no idea of how much they can take, which causes them to take dose that's too high,
b) relapsing after a period of time that made their tollerance lower than they used to have,
c) fed drugs by someone who doesn't care if they'll die.
According to his story of her story it wasn't "a" or "b". So could be unfortunate accident that randomly happened in a presence of predatory individual who had nothing to do with it, or - more likely - "c".
but may have attempted a sexual assault as a "spur of the moment" thing while she was overdosing and dying, rather than helping her.
Well, World is full of rapists but only serial killer type would figure that dying child is arousing and jump on the chance to rape her then. Also possible, but not the most likely scenario IMO.
Much more likely would be: he met a girl and figured that feeding her drugs will be a great opportunity to rape her, likely to rape her with a friend. But they accidentally gave her too much, she started dying, so they never finished with rape, and cause of that felt confident enough to come up with this bs explanation after they freaked out and left her to die.
The claim that she had previous drug history and was willingly taking it is his story and it's covering his stinky *ss. IMO it's as believeable as the part with trying to take off her pants to help her breathe.
It's nothing, but excuse for his involvement and actions.
It was his drug connections that were used to purchase drugs.
It was his claims that teenage girl who just got kicked out of her house, had enough money to buy COCAINE from all the drugs, and did just that with his help.
His claims that he just casually drove to the drug dealer, who felt like jumping into his car, while he just decided to spend some time giving this random girl which he just met and decided to drive around as she wished.
There is nothing in his story that sounds like it makes sense as far as common sense goes.
All little details, all elements are bizarre.
And the only thing that makes it fit into a story is HIS claim that she was a drug addict.
His whole story, his whole "I did nothing criminal here, just got scared" relies on this claim.
At the point where he realised that LE is at the point where they can connect him to her death by his gf's cd's left at the scene, he decided to "come clear" and claim that:
- girl was hitchhiking, willingly wanted to get into his car -
he was just trying to help!
- girl was interested in buying drugs -
it wasn't him who brought that up!
- she purchased the drugs, with her own money -
not his fault!
- she took the drugs alone -
he wasn't!
- any DNA from his drug dealing friend found on her -
just cause he offered him a lift too! they were in the backseat together, while SHE was taking drugs!
- his DNA on her -
just cause she was trying to help her!
- her unbuttoned pants -
he was trying to help her breathe! She was suffocating, he just tried to take her pants off to help her breathe!
- they left her there -
just cause they got scared!
- she died -
cause she was a drug addict!
What is in there exactly to make it look likely that she willingly took cocaine?
Cause it's def not the fact that she OD'd.
Was this guy so well connected in drug business that he had access to the clearest, strongest cocaine out there despite of not even buying it?
But in the same time his drug dealing friend was just not good with business and decided to waste such high quality coke on non-local homeless girl with low chance of getting her as longtime buyer?
Or maybe nothing unusual about the cocaine, it was just that homeless girl decided to spend money on cocaine and buy it for the first time in her life to celebrate meeting this dude and OD'd accidentally, with excitement?
The risk of OD is there always, pretty much every time but it gets so much higher with taking something as strong as cocaine for the first time or having it served by someone who want's you to get unconscious but here it magically doesn't matter or even decreases, cause HE claimed that she was an addict and took it by her own will it becomes believeable?
Every part of his statement should be taken with a barrel of salt, not just the most ridiculous parts of it.