Ex-Ohio State football players indicted on rape, kidnapping charges
Ex-Ohio State football players Amir Riep and Jahsen Wint were indicted by a grand jury on rape and kidnapping charges on Friday, according to a report.
Nathan Baird of Cleveland.com, both Riep and Wint are being charged on two counts of rape and one count of kidnapping. Both could face up to 33 years in prison and registration as sex offenders if convicted on the three charges. All three charges are felonies.
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Riep and Wint are both 21. They are scheduled to be arraigned on March 6 at 1:30 p.m. in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas.
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien released a statement on Friday, detailing the nature of the incident:
On the evening of February 4th, 2020 the victim visited the defendants apartment and watched a movie. Later in the evening, the indictment charges that the victim was restrained by both defendants and forced to have non-consensual vaginal and oral sex.
According to a report from Eleven Warriors earlier this month, the victim began engaged in consensual sex with Riep but said she did not want to continue and moved away from him. Wint then entered the room and Riep restrained the victim while Wint forced oral sex on her.
Riep then reportedly forced the victim to state that the actions were consensual while he recorded her before driving the victim to her residence.
Both Riep and Wint were initially suspended by Ohio State’s football team before head coach Ryan Day dismissed both players from the program.