Former OSU football players Amir I. Riep and Jahsen L. Wint, both 24, are each charged with two counts of rape and one count of kidnapping.
, testified during a trial in Franklin County Common Pleas Court Wednesday that players were told by team officials to record or get evidence of consent with their sexual partners to protect themselves.
A key piece of evidence in the case is a cellphone video Riep took of the alleged victim which was played in court. The short video is visually dark but captures the sound of the woman saying she's crying and then agreeing after Riep asks if the sex was consensual.
Shortly before 5 p.m., Emig sent a statement to The Dispatch by email:"In general, when the Department of Athletics speaks with student-athletes about consent, we work closely with subject matter experts on campus and follow the university’s well established"You’ll see that page one of the policy defines consent as, 'permission that is clear, knowing, voluntary, and expressed prior to engaging in and during an act. Consent is active, not passive.
Riep testified he told one of the girls before recording,"I’m on the football team and this is something that we just are taught to do to protect ourselves. It’s nothing against you."Ohio State head football coach Ryan Day dismissed both players from the team on Feb. 12, 2020, saying they had failed to live up to the standards of Day and the program.Meyer told the jury to compare the four videos Sabol presented with the video of the alleged victim.
Sabol said the woman probably didn’t mean for her allegations to get this far. Shamansky accused the alleged victim’s father of pushing his daughter and authorities to pursue criminal charges.
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