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Kentucky defensive lineman arraigned on rape charge

By Mike Marteny

Oct 24, 2013; Starkville, MS, USA; Kentucky Wildcats helmet during the game against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Davis Wade Stadium. Mississippi State Bulldogs win the game against Kentucky Wildcats 28-22. Mandatory Credit: Spruce Derden-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 24, 2013; Starkville, MS, USA; Kentucky Wildcats helmet during the game against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Davis Wade Stadium. Mississippi State Bulldogs win the game against Kentucky Wildcats 28-22. Mandatory Credit: Spruce Derden-USA TODAY Sports /
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More legal troubles came down the pike for the Kentucky football team on Wednesday. According to the Associated Press, freshman defensive lineman Lloyd Tubman was arrested for first degree rape on Tuesday, and will be arraigned on Wednesday. Tubman is being held on $10,000 bail in the Lexington-Fayette County jail.

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Tubman had yet to see the field this season, and was suspended in definitely by Kentucky coach Mark Stoops.  He was scheduled to redshirt this season.

According to the arrest warrant, a woman that was an ex-girlfriend of Tubman was the victim. After initially refusing to see him, she signed Tubman into her dormitory room after he called up and said he was in the lobby.

Once in her room, he tried traditional advances to coax her into sex. When she refused his advances, that is when things took a turn for the worse and Tubman sexually assaulted her.

The woman called campus police immediately after he left the room. They came to her room and collected physical evidence, and sent her to the emergency room.

Tubman, a 20-year-old freshman from Seneca High School in Louisville, was a four star recruit. He chose to stay in Kentucky over other offers from Penn State, Nebraska, and his hometown school, the Louisville Cardinals.

Rape is a Class B felony in the state of Kentucky, and carries a minimum sentence of ten years in jail.

All five of the Kentucky players that have been suspended for Kentucky so far this year are freshmen. Three are in a redshirt season.

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