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Former McKinney football player charged with multiple rapes in Minnesota

Gideon Erhabor, 21, was arrested Tuesday in Collin County

A former McKinney football player has been charged with raping three female students last year at or near Bethel University in Minnesota, where he was a business student until leaving at year’s end.

Gideon Erhabor, 21, has been charged with three counts of sexual assault.
Gideon Erhabor, 21, has been charged with three counts of sexual assault.(Collin County)

Gideon Erhabor, 21, is charged with third-degree sexual conduct in connection with the alleged assaults, which took place in the fall of 2018, Minneapolis’ Star Tribune reported.

Erhabor, who attended McKinney Christian Academy, was arrested Tuesday in Collin County, where he is awaiting extradition to Minnesota. He played running back for Bethel, a private Christian university, in 2017 and 2018.

According to court documents obtained by the newspaper, Erhabor told police that in each incident the sex was consensual.

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In one case an 18-year-old woman told police Erhabor had invited her to his dorm room in September 2018 to see a movie and that he forcibly kissed and groped her before raping her.

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A second woman, age 19, told police she had been at a house party in October 2018 and exited the home around 2 a.m., feeling disoriented after drinking. She awoke later that morning in a friend’s apartment, she said, feeling confused about the previous night’s events.

Some weeks later, she said, Erhabor entered her room and climbed into her bed. When she declined his requests for sex, she said, Erhabor told her they had had sex at the previous month’s house party.

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Erhabor continued to pursue her aggressively after that, the documents said, in spite of her repeated rejections.

In the third case, a 21-year-old student said she had been at a house party in December with several friends and recalled mingling for about a half hour before blacking out. She awoke the next morning groggy and queasy, she said, feeling genital pain.

She told her resident assistant the next day that she had not wanted to have sex with Erhabor.

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Both the 19- and 21-year-old filed sexual assault reports with the university. However, a university administrator would not tell the Star Tribune whether the school had disciplined Erhabor at all.