UGA student charged with rape

Nathaniel Griggs Middlebrooks

By Joe Johnson

A University of Georgia student has been arrested for an alleged rape at his Oconee Street apartment.

Police said they arrested 19-year-old Nathaniel Middlebrooks Sunday afternoon on the alleged victim’s claim that she’d been raped the night before at the student’s residence.

Police learned of the incident when hospital staff contacted them about a patient having been the possible victim of sexual assault.

A detective interviewed the 18-year-old patient and “probable cause was developed for the arrest of Middlebrooks,” according to a police report.

The arrest warrant states that the student had sex

with the victim “after she withdrew her consent.”

Middlebrooks is being detained pending the outcome of a bond hearing scheduled for Feb. 12.