Accuser says USC’s Osa Masina raped her twice; linebacker charged in Utah
(CNN) University of Southern California linebacker Osa Masina was accuseded of 3 felonies in Utah, consisting of rape, simply days after being suspended from the football group, authorities stated Thursday.
The sophomore, who had actually been noted atop USC’s preseason depth chart as the No. 1 weak-side linebacker, stands accuseded of rape and 2 counts of forcible sodomy, coming from a July event in the Salt Lake City residential area of Cottonwood Heights, stated Salt Lake County Chief Deputy District Attorney Blake Nakamura.
Masina, a 19-year-old Salt Lake City native, turned himself into the Cottonwood Heights Police Department on Thursday early morning and bail was set at $250,000, stated Lt. Dan Bartlett. He got to the police headquarters with his lawyer, Greg Skordas, the lieutenant stated.
No court date has actually been set.
Skordas informed CNN Thursday afternoon that his customer stays in the Salt Lake County Jail. The lawyer had not seen “a single page of any cops reports or proof” and could not comment yet on the prosecution’s case, he stated.
He did state, nevertheless, he felt the bail quantity was high for a “novice teenage transgressor,” even if he was accuseded of 3 first-degree felonies that each bring jail terms of 5 years to life.
Suspended from group
On Tuesday, the Daily Trojan, the school paper, reported that Masina was gotten rid of from school after he and colleague Don Hill were suspended from the football group.
The set had actually not been enabled to play in their group’s very first 2 video games. Head coach Clay Helton had little to state about the matter throughout a Pac-12 media call Tuesday.
“As you understand, we had actually currently validated that Osa and Don would not be playing in our very first 2 video games,” he stated. “Under the university’s additional support, it has actually been chosen that they have actually been suspended from involvement with our football group. Any concerns associated with that need to be directed to the university.”
A declaration from the school stated federal personal privacy laws determine that no additional information might be supplied.
The accusations
According to a possible cause affirmation, a 19-year-old lady called “K” stated she was at a celebration in Cottonwood Heights, consuming alcohol and cannabis, when she accompanied Masina, who she has actually understood for several years, and 2 other guys to a junk food dining establishment.
It was early in the early morning on July 26, and she felt “not all there,” so she didn’t go within with the 3 guys, the file states. She dropped off to sleep in the automobile, the males returned, they drove back to the celebration and “K” either lost consciousness or went to sleep.
“According to K, she got up to discover Masina on top of her. His erect penis remained in her rectum, which ‘injure [her] Bad,'” the likely cause statement states.
Because she was inebriateded, she might just move her legs to decrease the discomfort, and she lost consciousness once again as Masina continued to make love with her, the affirmation states.
She got up once again to discover Masina requiring himself into her mouth, to the point that she had problem breathing, she informed detectives. She attempted to press him away and lost consciousness once again, according to the file.
She got up, her throat in discomfort, and attempted to call a pal and his daddy to choose her up however could not reach either of them, so she left your house, scared, the file states.
“The next thing she might keep in mind was getting up late in the early morning in the front lawn (of the house next door to where the celebration was held),” it states.
” K was stooped versus a tree with just her bra on and the blanket over her.”
Second attack?
When she got house, she discovered she was bleeding from her rectum and had issue to the porcelain crowns on her back teeth, according to the file.
In an interview with authorities, Masina acknowledged making love with the lady, the possible cause affirmation states.
She declares this was the 2nd time Masina had actually raped her. On July 14, she took a trip to Los Angeles to check out Masina, who offered her alcohol, cannabis and 2 Xanax “bars,” she informed cops, according to the possible cause affirmation.
In that encounter, she declared, she got up to Masina putting his penis in her mouth while among Masina’s buddies made love with her from behind. She had actually granted neither, she informed authorities.
“This proof recommends that the Utah event was neither a spontaneous event nor a one-time occasion, and for that reason raises issues about the security of others with whom the accused might have contact,” the affirmation states.
Asked about the July 14 accusation, Officer Drake Madison, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson, referred CNN to an August 30 declaration where authorities acknowledged talking to Masina. The nature of the interview was not divulged.
According to the Daily Trojan, authorities served Masina with a search warrant to take his iPhone and DNA samples August 25.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/us/usc-trojans-football-osa-masina-rape-charge/index.html
