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July 16, 2012

Woman testifies in Darrell Williams rape case

— STILLWATER  — A woman testified Monday that a suspended Oklahoma State University basketball player touched her sexually, even though she told him to stop and tried to move his arms away.

The woman took the stand in the trial of Darrell Williams, who is charged with four counts of rape by instrumentation and one count of sexual battery for allegedly groping two women and reaching into their pants without their consent.

During questioning by prosecutors, the woman testified that Williams hugged her from behind outside a basement entrance to a residence where a party was being held in December 2010, the Stillwater NewsPress reported. The woman alleged that Williams, while dressed in Oklahoma State warm-up clothing, touched her chest and stuck his hands down her pants and touched her groin.

“I told him to stop and go find another girl,” she testified.

The woman said that while she was looking for her driver’s license and some cash she thought she lost while Williams was touching her, he came up behind her and touched her breasts and stuck his hands down her pants again. She said she told Williams to stop and tried to pull his arms away but she wasn’t strong enough.

She testified that another man in basketball warm-up gear was recording the assault with his phone and was laughing.

Williams’ attorney, Cheryl Ramsey, asked the woman why she didn’t scream during the alleged assault and why she returned to Williams after the first incident. The woman said that during the assaults she was frightened and did not think anyone would hear her. She said she returned because she thought he had taken her driver’s license and she did not want him to know where she lived.

Ramsey noted that Williams wasn’t identified in a lineup of head shots while wearing street clothes and asked if the woman had an expectation that her attacker was in the photo. The woman said she did not.

The victim testified that she recognized some basketball players in Oklahoma State warm-up suits at the party and assumed others who were wearing the suits were also players.

District Judge Phillip Corley said the trial will resume Tuesday morning.

Coach Travis Ford suspended Williams from the team in February 2011.

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