A woman who told police that she was sexually assaulted by a Michigan State basketball player asked the Michigan attorney general’s office last week to investigate her case after local prosecutors declined to file charges.
Michigan State University police told prosecutors that they had probable cause that Spartans sophomore basketball player Brock Washington raped the woman on Jan. 19 while she was too intoxicated to consent, according to a police report and emails obtained by ESPN via a public records request to the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office. Police referred the case to county prosecutors, who declined to file charges this month.
Washington, who two years ago pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault stemming from a separate sex crime investigation, was suspended without explanation by Michigan State coach Tom Izzo in late January. During questioning by police in the most recent case, Washington changed his story about the night in question several times, acknowledged that the woman was so drunk that she was incapacitated and admitted to police that he had sexual contact with her, according to the police report.