Minnesota man accused of waterboarding and assaulting woman in her college dorm for three days

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Minnesota man accused of waterboarding and assaulting woman in her college dorm for three days
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Police arrested Keanu Avery Labatte, 19, after he allegedly forcibly held the woman in her dorm room at St. Catherine University for 3 days while allegedly repeatedly assaulting and threatening her.

A 19-year-old Minnesota man is accused of waterboarding and brutally physically and sexually assaulting a woman for three days in her dorm room last weekend.

He also allegedly threatened to kill her family"and reminded her that she knew what he had done to a prior girlfriend, which was to hold a knife to her throat," according to the criminal complaint. The victim finally managed to escape her dorm room Sunday morning, when she convinced him to allow her to go to the cafeteria, leading Labatte to allow her to take her cell phone so he could try to keep track of her, the complaint states.

The woman underwent a sexual assault examination at the hospital, according to the complaint. When police found Labatte in the woman's dorm room and arrested him on charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, domestic assault by strangulation and threats of violence, he told them,"I plead the 5th," and authorities did not question him further at the scene, according to the complaint.

A spokesperson for the university said in a statement that it is school policy"not to issue any comment that would affect student confidentiality or potentially re-traumatize individuals" and that officials did not want to jeopardize the ongoing investigation.

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