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Logan • Thursday was the second day of the preliminary hearing for former Utah State University linebacker Torrey Green, 23, who has been charged in seven sexual assaults that allegedly occurred between November 2013 and November 2015, while Green was a student.
The charges were filed after a Salt Lake Tribune story in July prompted Cache County prosecutors to re-examine sexual assault allegations lodged against Green in 2015. Since July, prosecutors have investigated at least 15 sexual assault allegations against Green. He has been charged in 1st District Court with six counts of rape, one count of aggravated kidnapping, three counts of forcible sex abuse and two counts of object rape.
Three alleged victims testified Wednesday, and two testified Thursday. Two more alleged victims are expected to testify Friday.
Thursday's hearing has now concluded. See developments from the day's testimony here:
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4:10 p.m.
Brad, Anna's friend, told the court Thursday that Anna told him about the alleged assault in the summer of 2015. She did not, however, name Torrey Green as her alleged attacker, Brad said.
Brad noticed a change in her, he said. She was "more depressed. Psychologically, she seemed damaged."
This year, Brad said, he was shown of photo of Anna and Green by a student reporter from Utah State University and he asked Anna about it.
Anna told Brad she remembered the photo being taken, he said, and she said she agreed to it because she was afraid of what might happen if she didn't.
When Anna first reported the assault to police in November 2015, she did not disclose the fact that the picture was taken. Earlier on Thursday, she said at the time of her report, she did not remember that the photo had been taken.
(Editor's note: Anna agreed to the use of her first name in previous reporting by The Tribune, which is using only Brad's first name to protect Anna's identity.)
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3:50 p.m.
Jenny Erazo, coordinator for the Sexual Assault and Anti-Violence Information office at Utah State University, told the court Thursday that Anna came to her office on Nov. 6, 2015, and reported she had been raped by Torrey Green.
Erazo recognized the name, she said, because a couple of other individuals had come to her office alleging Green had assaulted them.
Erazo said she did not recall if she had provided Anna with the phone number of another alleged victim. Anna previously testified that Erazo had done so, so that the two women could talk about what had allegedly happened to them.
Rachel, Anna's roommate in 2015, told the court Thursday that Anna was distraught over a sexual assault.
"She was crying," Rachel said."She kept telling him, no, why didn't he stop. I just sat by her, trying to comfort her."
(Editor's note: Anna agreed to the use of her first name in previous reporting by The Tribune, which is using only Rachel's first name to protect Anna's identity.)
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3:20 p.m.
Anna told the court Thursday that she didn't want to let Torrey Green into her apartment early one morning in the summer of 2015, but felt obligated to when he said he was on his way.
The two had met on Tinder in late May or early June, she said, and sometime between midnight and 2 a.m. he said he wanted to hang out.
She told him it was late, and that she was tired. But he came over anyway, she said.
They talked for a while and he seemed "nice, decent and pleasant," she said.
Then he started grabbing and kissing her, Anna said, while moving her to her bedroom.
She ended up face down on the floor, she said, and he started pulling off her clothing.
"I told him to stop and I didn't want to have sex with him," she said. "He ignored what I was saying and continued."
Afterward, she said he lay on her bed and "demanded" she do the same. He snapped a photo of the two of them, she said, smiling, because he told her to.
She then locked herself in the bathroom, she said, while Green stayed in her bedroom.
Anna did not immediately report to police, she said, because she didn't think anyone would believe her.
Later that year, she went to Utah State University's Sexual Assault and Anti-Violence Information office, she said, and was told that another woman had reported Green to SAAVI.
She then decided to report to police in November, she said.
It does not appear that Green was ever interviewed by authorities in Anna's case, but prosecutors decided to re-examine the cases after The Tribune's story in July.
(Editor's note: Anna agreed to the use of her first name in previous reporting by The Tribune.)
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2:45p.m.
In court Thursday, Sean Marshall, an investigator for the Cache County attorney's office, and Deputy Cache County Attorney Spencer Walsh read text messages exchanged between Torrey Green and a woman after The Salt Lake Tribune's story was published in July.
In the text exchange, Green told the woman: "They said I raped them. Yes, I did. It's my fault. I'm the one who did it."
Defense attorney Skye Lazaro noted that there was no punctuation in the text message, and asked if it could be interpreted a number of ways.
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2:15 p.m.
When Catherine did a pre-recorded phone call with Torrey Green — arranged by the Logan Police Department — she asked Green if that January 2015 night was a one-night stand or if Green wanted a relationship.
That was a strategy suggested by Logan police Detective Kendall Olsen, who handled Catherine's rape report.
At the time, Olsen explained to Catherine that police do not script these phone calls, but would help guide her conversation, he told the court Thursday.
"We spoke of possible ways she could begin" the call, Olsen said. "I recall her being nervous about confronting him."
Olsen added, "We talked about what was a non-confrontational way to start the conversation to begin talking about what happened that night."
Olsen also noted that Catherine had a rape kit done, but said it was not submitted for testing until August 2016.
"When this was collected, it was common practice and policy to not send rape kits down until there were court proceedings or unless we had a reason to send them down," Olsen said. "Now, state law has been changed that now, once it's collected, it is then immediately sent down to be tested. At this time, it wasn't sent down because there wasn't a need from the county attorney to have it tested."
In April 2015, Cache County prosecutors declined to file charges in Catherine's case. They began re-examining her allegations and those of other women after The Salt Lake Tribune published a story in July.
The results of Catherine's rape kit have not yet come back from the lab, Olsen said.
Sean Marshall, an investigator for the Cache County attorney's office, read a statement in court Thursday from a man who knew Catherine and gave her an LDS Priesthood blessing after the alleged assault.
"I assured her she had been sexually assaulted," the man wrote in his statement. "And she hadn't done anything wrong."
(Editor's note: Catherine is identified as V.G. in court documents, but agreed to the pseudonym Catherine in previous reporting by The Tribune.)
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12:01 p.m.
Kaylie, Catherine's roommate, testified Thursday that the night of the alleged rape, the two pushed their beds together before going to sleep.
"She wanted comfort," Kaylie said.
Kaylie told the court that Catherine and her friend Laura woke her up in the middle of the night in January 2015. Catherine told her she was raped by Green.
Despite Catherine's protests, Laura said they decided to tell the dormitory complex's resident assistant.
Catherine "didn't want us to go get [the resident assistant] because she was ashamed," Kaylie said. "She didn't want anyone to know, but me and Laura didn't know what else to do."
The next morning, Kaylie said she went to class and Laura came to lie in bed with Catherine. Catherine didn't leave her dorm room for several days, Kaylie said.
The court is now on a lunch break.
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11:52 a.m.
Catherine got a rape kit done a few days after the rape, she said, and tried to keep going to school.
But she couldn't concentrate during her classes following the alleged assault, she said.
"I loved Utah State," she said, in tears. "I loved it so much. But I finally realized it was never going to be the same ... so I decided to go home."
As Catherine described the alleged rape in January 2015 to her friend Laura and to her roommate, she was crying inconsolably.
Catherine had called Laura after the alleged assault, Laura testified Thursday, asking her to come pick her up from Green's apartment. Laura did, she said, and Catherine told her what happened.
As Catherine continued to describe what happened, Laura said she decided to wake up the dormitory complex's resident assistant, who directed Catherine to services such as the school's Sexual Assault and Anti-Violence Information office and the police.
The resident assistant then went to sleep, Laura said, and she and Catherine's roommate stayed up with Catherine.
Later, Catherine went to both SAAVI and the police.
(Editor's note: Catherine is identified as V.G. in court documents, but agreed to the pseudonym Catherine in previous reporting by The Tribune.)
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11 a.m.
After Catherine told her friend what happened the January 2015 night she went to Torrey Green's apartment, she said her friend urged her to report it.
"That was rape," her friend said. "You need to tell someone."
In tears, Catherine told the court Thursday she was just so tired. All she wanted to do was sleep, she said.
Catherine had met Green at Utah State's Taggart Student Center on campus, and she said she gave him her number.
A few days later, she said, Green texted her about hanging out. She wanted him to come to her apartment, she added, but he refused.
About 45 minutes later, she said he called to say he and his friend were on their way to her apartment to get her. She was nervous, she said, but felt like she couldn't say no.
Once at Green's apartment, she said they began watching TV and Green's friend left soon after.
That's when he started taking her clothes off, despite her protests, she said.
"I kept telling him I didn't want to do anything, that I didn't know him well," she said. "I tried to distract him by talking about something else."
He eventually overpowered her, she said, and raped her.
Afterward, Catherine said that Green told her, "You're not the kind of girl who would report a rape, right? [Because] that would ruin my career."
Her friend picked her up from Green's apartment, she said, and took her back to her apartment.
There, she informed her resident assistant of the assault, she said, and then went to the school's Sexual Assault and Anti-Violence Information office. An individual in that office helped her report to police.
Logan police set up a recorded phone call between Catherine and Green. Unaware that police were listening, Green told her she didn't say no.
(Editor's note: Catherine is identified as V.G. in court documents, but agreed to the pseudonym Catherine in previous reporting by The Tribune.)
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10:25 a.m.
Savannah, another one of L.P.'s roommates at the time of alleged assault, also was there the October 2014 night when L.P. came home from Torrey Green's apartment.
In a video recorded interview played in court, Savannah said L.P. was crying and upset, but didn't want to report the alleged assault to police.
Savannah said L.P. went to stay with her parents for several months after that night "because he knew where she lived."
When L.P. returned to Logan, Savannah said L.P. told her the event was still traumatic for her.
(Editor's note: The Tribune is using only Savannah's first name to protect the identity of the alleged victim.)
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9:55 a.m.
L.P.'s mother, Kim, said she vividly remembers the phone call she received from her daughter the night after the alleged sexual assault.
L.P. was crying uncontrollably, Kim said, and the first words she was able to understand were, "Mom, I was basically raped with my clothes on."
Kim said that L.P. described Torrey Green as strong and forceful, and that he would get more aggressive when she said "no."
After the alleged assault, Kim said she noticed a change in her daughter.
L.P. came home a lot, Kim said, and was worried she would run into Green.
"Her anxiety level was off the charts, her fear level," Kim said. "She didn't want to do daily activities."
(Editor's note: The Tribune is using only Kim's first name to protect the identity of the alleged victim.)
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9:25 a.m.
Kristin, L.P.'s roommate at the time of the alleged assault, told the court Thursday that L.P. came home in the fall of 2014 crying and distraught.
When she went to comfort L.P., Kristin said L.P. disclosed that she had been assaulted by Torrey Green.
Kristin testified that she didn't notice any bruising on L.P., but that she didn't look that closely.
Kristin did not try to get L.P. to report, she said, because L.P. "didn't really want to. I didn't want to press the issue."
(Editor's note: The Tribune is using only Kristin's first name to protect the identity of the alleged victim.)
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9:05 a.m.
Alleged rape victim L.P. testified Wednesday that Torrey Green sexually assaulted her in October 2014 at his apartment in Logan. Witnesses in her case are expected to testify Thursday morning in 1st District Court.