Freddie Gibbs has been charged with sexual abuse of a defenseless or psychologically impaired person, in connection with the alleged July 2015 rape of woman backstage at a concert in Austria.
"He is alleged to have administered knock-out drops to a woman and then have abused her sexually while she was in a defenseless state," a spokesman for Vienna's criminal court said Wednesday.
Reuters reports that the charges were handed down Tuesday, August 16.
Gibbs' Vienna-based attorney, Thomas Kralik, insists his client had nothing to do with the alleged victim's drink being spiked and is innocent.
"He strenuously denies (the accusations)," Kralik said.
As we previously reported, the 34-year old rapper, born Fredrick Tipton, has been locked up in Josefstadt prison in Vienna since being extradited from France on July 31.
He was originally picked up by French authorities on a European arrest warrant out of Austria on June 2. Gibbs was in France to perform at.the Rex in Toulouse at the time.
His U.S. lawyer, Theodore Simon, issued an emailed statement to Reuters.
"While Freddie Gibbs was charged with an offense today, it remains only an allegation, and it does not in any way change the actual facts that Freddie Gibbs is 100 percent innocent."
Gibbs faces a maximum 10-year prison sentence if convicted.
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