A Binghamton freshman who was accused of attempted rape by a dorm neighbor last October was indicted early last month on felony attempted rape charges in Broome County Court.

The grand jury’s indictment, dated March 3, accuses 20-year-old William Marulanda Jr. of Dickinson’s Digman Hall of first-degree attempted rape and provides fresh details about the female student’s allegations against her classmate.

According to the grand jury’s indictment based on the allegations, Marulanda was “stoned” early on Oct. 15, 2005 when he allegedly accosted the unidentified female student in a Digman Hall bathroom, pushed her onto the ground and tried to rape her in a shower stall.

A few hours later, Marulanda, originally from New York City, was arrested by the BU campus police after his accuser identified him to dorm staff and police investigators as the young man who attacked her in Digman, despite her pleas that she didn’t want to have sex with him. She fled before he could “complete the act,” according to campus police investigators.

Marulanda was arraigned in Vestal Town Court that morning, where a town justice sent him to the Broome County Jail.

Shortly after Marulanda was arrested in October, Dean of Students Lloyd M. Howe banned him from campus — a move that is typical after a violent accusation is made against a BU student. Marulanda is still prohibited from coming onto campus.

Marulanda spent over two weeks in Broome County Jail from the time of his initial arraignment, and he was released on his own recognizance after his court-appointed attorney — who took far longer than is typical in Broome to ask a county judge for bail — finally made a motion for bail after the court, the judge and the jail were contacted repeatedly by this newspaper.

The indictment was handed up in early March after an assistant district attorney presented her accusations to a county grand jury. The panel agreed that there was enough legal suspicion of “forcible compulsion” to indict Marulanda on the felony sex charges.

According to Cheryl Mancini, the Broome assistant district attorney handling Marulanda’s prosecution, a trial will be scheduled soon, but one hasn’t been set yet. She noted that a plea bargain could also resolve the charges before the case goes to trial.