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BRIGHAM CITY — Two women who said a former Utah State football player sexually assaulted them shared their stories with a jury in Day 2 of the Torrey Green trial.
Each woman testified that the sexual assaults at the hands of Green left them emotionally scarred, making it difficult to continue their educations in Logan, away from their hometowns.
Similar to testimonies the day before, both women said they were sexually assaulted by Green after he got them alone to watch a movie.
One woman said Green quickly moved from kissing, to trying to remove her clothes, to grinding against her body up against a wall. While she described the experience as “being raped with her clothes on,” she said the one thing that stopped Green from taking it further was something she said to him.
“My fight or flight really kicked in,” she said. “I just started saying to him, ‘You are disrespectful. What would your mother think of you? How could you treat a woman like this?'”
She added that Green told her, “You’re not even worth it!” before taking her home.
The other woman said that after Green raped her in his bedroom, he said something to her that sounded like a threat.
“He said, ‘You’re not the kind of girl that would report a rape, right? Because that would ruin my career,’” she recalled. “The fact that he was the one to use the word ‘rape,’ I immediately knew that he’d known what he did was wrong, and he’d known that I had said ‘no.'”
Though she said she was both emotionally and physically hurt after the assault, she explained that friends encouraged her to report the crime to police and to get a rape kit.
Under the direction of a police detective, she also confronted Green in a recorded phone call. While Green was never heard confessing in the phone call, he could be heard saying something similar to the threatening phrase the woman recalled.
“I’m just saying like… you’re not the type of girl that would say, ‘he raped me,’ and some (expletive) like that. That’s what I’m talking about,” Green can be heard saying.
Later in the recording, the woman tried again to get Green to confess.
“You don’t remember me saying, ‘no,’ on the couch or anything?” she asked.
“I don’t… no… not that I can remember,” Green replied.
Two more of Green’s accusers were expected to testify in court Wednesday.
Green faced 11 charges in 6 different cases, including rape, forcible sex abuse, and aggravated kidnapping.
