She learned, through working with mentally defective children, that many of them actually had normal intelligence.

The four other charges deal with sexual assault of a mentally defective person.

At that point, the jurors sent the judge a note asking him to explain the definition of mentally defective again.

Those charges require the state to prove that the young men knew or should have known the young woman was mentally defective.

The young woman, they reasoned, was mentally defective and thus unable to exercise her legal right to say no.

If, as the jury found, she was mentally defective and the young men knew it, how then could they not be guilty of all counts?

He said the jurors agreed soon thereafter that the woman was mentally defective.