Courts and Campus Sexual Assault

Parker Kingston, a star BYU wide receiver, has been charged with first‑degree rape in Utah and BYU says he is no longer a student, with university officials and coaches saying they only learned of the investigation after his arrest. A judge found by "clear and convincing evidence" that Kingston is a danger to the community but released him on a $100,000 bond ($10,000 cash) with a GPS ankle monitor, bans on social media and contact with the accuser and witnesses, and a prohibition on returning to Washington County except for court; the unsealed charging affidavit says Kingston contends the sex was consensual while the accuser says she told him she did not want sex and repeatedly told him to stop, and the case has implications under BYU’s honor code banning sex outside heterosexual marriage.