PLAYER DISMISSED Young Girl Says WVU Player Allegedly Sexual Assaulted Her
Reported by: Rachel Tarr
Videographer: Eyewitness News
Web Producer: Jessica Reed
November 26, 2008 12:21am
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Freshman running back Mark Sampson Jr. and Carson Koontz are charged with sexual assault.
Police say the 17-year-old girl told them Sampson and Koontz picked her up from a party in Benwood, in Marshall County, late Saturday night and forced her to have sex with them in a parking lot of a former school.
Sampson was a walk-on player for the Mountaineers.
Koontz is a former John Marshall High School baseball player.
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Rachel Tarr
