Rae Edwards says she reported that former USUAggies athlete Torrey Green raped her in 2015 because her friends urged her. And she agreed to testify because prosecutors pushed her. Now, after 7 years, she wants to go to trial for one person: Herself. 1/2
Rae Edwards reported to police in 2015 that she was raped at a post-game party by the Utah State University player.
She was one of 19 women who made sexual assault allegations against Green, and one of the seven whose cases prosecutors eventually filed in court. But Edwards yearns to close this chapter of her life. She pictures this moment in her mind: She’s standing in the wood-paneled Logan courtroom with her thoughts written down on a piece of paper. She faces the man she says raped her. And she hopes she’ll feel able to say she forgives him.
She was the fourth woman in 2015 who sat on the same patterned couch in the Logan Police Department and made a similar accusation against Green., which led prosecutors to reexamine the cases and to more women coming forward to accuse Green. Rae Edwards with her son on Sept. 30, 2022. She is still waiting for former Utah State University football player Torrey Green to face trial on her allegation that he raped her in Logan, Utah, in 2015.
Five said Green put on a movie before he assaulted them, and five testified Green had told each of them “she would enjoy” having sex with him., telling jurors that he either had consensual sex with the women — or that sex never happened. He said he regretted not being more upfront with the women about not being interested in a long-term relationship.
She feels robbed of that moment, and the healing that came when the women could stand together in the courtroom.But Edwards tried to reassure herself then that her trial was coming.Green filed a notice that he would appeal his convictions less than a month later. The appeal, though, has been dragging on for years, with attorneys asking for more time because they were short-staffed and because the legal arguments were complicated by the lengthy trial and number of victims. Green’s attorney asked for eight extensions. After his argument was filed in 2020, the state then asked for a deadline delay nine times.
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