This post has been updated.
Today, the City Attorney's office charged University of Washington basketball player Venoy Overton with furnishing alcohol to an underage girl—a gross misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. The decision comes a month after the King County Prosecutor's office declined to press criminal charges against Overton for allegedly assaulting the 16-year-old girl after meeting her and her friend via Facebook. (The KC Prosecutor's office said there wasn't sufficient evidence to press the sexual assault case.)
According to the victim, Overton met up with two girls on January 8, allegedly plied them with alcohol, and then allegedly had sex with them both.
Early in the morning of January 9, one of the girls filed a police report stating that the basketball player had sexually assaulted her. Overton allegedly "forced her to perform oral sex on him and he penetrated her vagina with his fingers several times after she told him not to," according to the report. The victim then left the apartment and called her mother and uncle—whom she'd told she was seeing movies at Bellevue Square Mall—to come pick her up.
Overton, for his part, told police that neither girl said "no" to the sex acts, and witness accounts conflicted with the victim's version of events, prompting the KC Prosecutor's office to pass on the case.
Overton's first hearing is scheduled for Seattle Municipal Court on April 1.







