A onetime student leader at the University of Illinois at Chicago who was cleared less than three months ago of sexually assaulting a woman while re-enacting scenes from "50 Shades of Grey" was back in Cook County court Wednesday for allegedly sending photos of the incident to friends on Facebook. 
 
 Hours after the Feb. 21 incident, Mohammad Hossain posted a public message on his Facebook page that read, "I'm finally satisfied ... feeling accomplished," prosecutors charged. He then sent photos of the woman bound, blindfolded and naked or scantily clad to several friends, said Assistant State's Attorney Lorraine Scaduto. 
 
 "These photos were taken without her consent or permission," Scaduto said. 
 
 Hossain, 19, a biology student who was suspended from the university after his arrest, was freed from Cook County Jail in March after a judge found no probable cause to hold him on charges he sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman, a chemistry major at UIC, in his dorm room. 
 
 Judge Peggy Chiampas warned Hossain at the time that prosecutors could still seek an indictment against him. 
 
 The photographs were discovered in March after a search warrant for Hossain's Facebook page was returned to UIC police, Scaduto said. Police obtained the photographs after Hossain was cleared on the sexual assault charge. 
 
 Hossain's attorney, Joshua Kutnick, said Wednesday that the statute his client was charged under only applies to photographs taken outside of a defendant's own home. He asked Judge James Brown to toss the case, but the judge declined, setting bail for Hossain at $10,000. 
 
 Cook County Sheriff's Office Mohammad Hossain, 19, was accused of sending photos of a naked woman to friends online without her consent. Hossain, a biology student who has been suspended from the University of Illinois at Chicago, was freed from jail in March after a judge found prosecutors lacked probable cause for a sexual assault charge. Mohammad Hossain, 19, was accused of sending photos of a naked woman to friends online without her consent. Hossain, a biology student who has been suspended from the University of Illinois at Chicago, was freed from jail in March after a judge found prosecutors lacked probable cause for a sexual assault charge. (Cook County Sheriff's Office) (Cook County Sheriff's Office) 
 
 "The law is on our side," Kutnick said outside the courtroom. "I anticipate a favorable resolution of this case very quickly." 
 
 The woman testified at a hearing in March that she and Hossain were "friends with benefits" who had occasionally experimented with bondage. She said she had just seen the book-adapted film "Fifty Shades of Grey" by herself downtown Feb. 21 when she received a text from Hossain asking if she wanted to hang out. 
 
 They went to Hossain's dorm room, but what started as a consensual encounter after he bound and gagged her soon shifted, the woman testified. Hossain beat and raped her as she cried and shook her head no, she said. 
 
 On his release from jail after about a month in protective custody, Hossain denied sexually assaulting the woman. He also said he had learned to be careful about whom he could trust and was now focused on finishing his education. 
 
 "All that really matters is becoming a doctor," he told reporters. "I have one goal in mind, and that's what I'll set my heart to." 
 
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 A judge on Thursday cleared a University of Illinois Chicago student of a rape charge after he was accused of sexually assaulting another student during a re-enactment of the movie "Fifty Shades of Grey." (Published Thursday, March 19, 2015) 
 
 A former University of Illinois at Chicago student who was charged with and then cleared in a rape case in which he re-enacted scenes from the film "Fifty Shades of Grey" was back in court for allegedly sending pictures of that incident on social media. 
 
 Mohammad Hossain privately messaged a few friends four photos of his accuser "blind folded and gagged," Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Lorraine Scaduto said. 
 
 The woman, also a UIC student, said she didn't know the pictures were being taken and did not consent to them, according to Hossain’s latest arrest report. 
 
 Hossain, 19, now faces charges of unlawfully taking pictures of the woman and unlawful dissemination of the photos. 
 
 "I’m finally satisfied — feeling accomplished," Hossain’s Facebook public page read about an hour after the pair’s encounter in Hossain’s dorm room on Feb. 21. 
 
 The woman, then 19, was naked in two of the pictures Hossain allegedly sent his friends privately. She was partially nude, wearing only her bra and underwear in the other two photographs, Scaduto said. 
 
 Results of a search warrant tied to Hossain’s Facebook account were returned to UIC officials recently, authorities said. 
 
 Hossain, of the 6500 block of North Bell Avenue, turned himself in to UIC police on Tuesday. 
 
 He has since been suspended from UIC, his attorney Joshua Kutnick said in court. 
 
 Judge James Brown ordered Hossain held in lieu of $10,000 bail Wednesday. 
 
 Kutnick argued that Hossain has "not committed a crime," because the statute he was charged under requires that the photographs in question need to be taken outside the accused’s residence. 
 
 "It is unlawful for any person to knowingly make a video record or transmit live video of another person in that other person’s residence without that person’s consent," the statute reads. 
 
 Hossain and the woman were in his dorm room, in the 900 block of West Harrison Street, Kutnick reiterated to Brown. 
 
 "The law is on our side," Kutnick told reporters after Wednesday’s brief hearing. "We anticipate a favorable resolution in this case." 
 
 In March, Judge Peggy Chiampas released Hossain after she said prosecutors failed to meet their burden of proof in his rape case. Hossain had said the sex he had with his fellow freshman was consensual and that the pair was re-enacting a scene from the popular bondage-theme movie. 
 
 Hossain’s accuser said she met up with him in his dorm room after seeing "Fifty Shades of Grey." They had had sex previously, she testified, and while she agreed to be tied up that night, she did not consent to sex, she said. 
 
 Hossain was a biology major and still hopes to become a pediatrician, Kutnick said. 
 
 Kutnick also said his client, who stands 5 feet, 7 inches tall and who weighs 134 pounds, was a triathlete as well as a student alumni ambassador while he was at UIC. 
 
 Hossain, who appeared in court with a dark slacks and tan trench coat on Wednesday, is currently doing an internship, Kutnick said. 
 
 "He wants to go back to school," the defense attorney said. 
 
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– A 19-year-old who was cleared of rape charges over a Fifty Shades of Grey re-enactment is in trouble again. Mohammad Hossain said he and the fellow University of Illinois at Chicago freshman who accused him of rape had consensual sex on Feb. 21, and a court found there was not enough evidence to move ahead with the case. But after the February encounter, he also allegedly sent four pictures of his accuser—nude in two of them, partially nude in the other two, and "blindfolded and gagged," a prosecutor says—to some of his friends. The woman said she didn't consent to or know about the photos, and Hossain turned himself in and was arrested Tuesday. UIC has suspended him, NBC Chicago reports. The pictures were discovered in March after UIC police got a search warrant for Hossain's Facebook page, the Chicago Tribune reports. Hossain has been charged with illegally taking and distributing the photos, but his attorney says he's confident the law is on their side: The statute in question says, "It is unlawful for any person to knowingly make a video record or transmit live video of another person in that other person’s residence without that person’s consent," and the pair was in Hossain's dorm room at the time, the attorney points out. During the Feb. 21 encounter, Hossain's accuser has said that she consented to being tied up—she had just seen Fifty Shades and notes that she and Hossain were "friends with benefits" who'd slept together before—but did not agree to sex. She says Hossain beat her as well, as she begged him to stop. Before allegedly distributing the photos of her afterward, police say, Hossain posted publicly on Facebook: "I'm finally satisfied ... feeling accomplished."