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ing in sexual contact with her. The victim said she repeatedly made it clear to him that she did not consent, but he allegedly held her down and told her to shut up. She said the initial assault stopped after she fell out of a bed and hit her head.

A second assault allegedly occurred a short time later when the victim woke up on the ground on a wooded peninsula near the cabin they had been in. The victim said she was unsure of how she got out there, but Pinter was again attempting to have sexual contact with her against her will, according to the complaint.

At some point, the other members of the bachelorette party noticed the victim was missing and started calling her cell phone.

The victim said Pinter stopped the assault after she heard her phone ringing and told him that her friends would find her.

The victim she said turned ran away from Pinter into some nearby woods. The victim told the deputy that she had never been more scared in her life Eventually, with the help of someone who was staying in a cabin with Pinter, the victim’s friends were able to locate her.

Pinter was originally charged with third and fourth-degree sexual assault shortly after the alleged incident occurred in 2023, but those charges were dismissed on April 2, just two days before the current charges were filed by the Lincoln County District Attorney’s office.