Former Mizzou football running back Derrick Washington sentenced to 5 years in sex assault
Derrick Washington
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Posted: 11/14/2011
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By: Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Former University of Missouri football running back and co-captain Derrick Washington has been sentenced to five years in prison for the off-campus sexual assault of a former Tiger athletics tutor.
Boone County Circuit Judge Kevin Crane sentenced Washington on Monday afternoon, two months after a Columbia jury found him guilty of forcibly fondling the woman in June 2010.
Washington had faced a punishment of up to seven years in prison. But he could be released after 120 days in a "shock incarceration" program while remaining on probation for the duration of his five-year sentence.
Washington also is scheduled to stand trial in late December on two misdemeanor domestic assault charges. A former girlfriend has accused him of poking her eyes and choking her during an argument.
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