Ben Smyth, 20, to face charges related to an alleged sexual assault of a fellow student in August 2022
A Victoria diver has been taken into custody in the United States to face sexual-assault charges relating to an incident in a dorm room at the University of Utah, where he was studying on an athletic scholarship.According to police documents, Mr. Smyth got the phone number of a young woman in a common area of their student housing then later allegedly raped her in her dorm room.
“It is our understanding that he is in custody in Seattle,” Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said. Later in the interview, however, he said he knew her and had sex with her when they first met. The documents say his and the victims’ descriptions of the event “substantially corroborated” one another “apart from the element of consent.”
The Salt Lake County District Attorney Office said on Feb. 24, Det. Chavez went to Mr. Smyth’s dorm to attempt to serve him with a temporary protective order that would prevent him from contacting the victim.
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