Tuesday, Kentucky football player Lloyd Tubman was arrested and charged with first-degree rape in connection to an alleged on-campus sexual assault. A day later, some of the details of what led up to the charge have emerged.
According to a warrant obtained by the Lexington Herald-Leader, Tubman had been in a previous relationship with the alleged victim. Very late last Thursday morning, the defensive lineman, after some initial reluctance on the female’s part, met with the alleged victim at her dorm and the two ultimately went back to her room after he was signed in.
It was after that, the woman alleged, she was sexually assaulted by Tubman.While she typed a paper sitting on her roommate’s bed, the woman said Tubman interrupted her repeatedly before he disrobed and refused to leave, according to the court document.
Tubman allegedly restrained her while she fought, the warrant said.
Immediately after the alleged rape, the student, who was “in shock,” told Tubman he had to leave, according to the warrant. He followed her to the elevator. The student took Tubman to the building’s lobby. She told police she’d been admonished previously for not being present when a visitor checked out.
Police investigating the allegations stated in the warrant that “a video of the lobby showed there was not physical contact or ‘intimate gestures’ between the two” before or after the alleged rape.
As of this morning, Tubman remains incarcerated in the Lexington-Fayette County Detention Center in lieu of a $10,000 bond. Tubman has also been indefinitely suspended by the football program.
Tubman has not recorded any statistics this season for the Wildcats as a true freshman. He was a three-star member of UK’s 2014 recruiting class.
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