Chicago area college basketball player charged with sexual assault

Charles Peden, a 19 year old student from Maywood, a suburb of Chicago, was arrested on charges of 3rd degree sexual abuse for the alleged rape of a 18 year old junior college student who went to Indian Hills Community College, located in Ottumwa, IA where a basketball tounarment the Wilbur Wright City College basketball team was playing at. Other team members are still under investigation for the alleged attack.

[He] was arrested in the western suburb Wednesday on a fugitive warrant from Wapello County, Iowa. He is being held at Cook County Jail and plans to fight extradition to Iowa, Cook County court officials said.

While Iowa officials were conducting the investigation and waiting for DNA evidence results, Wright College allowed the team members to remain on the squad for the duration of their season, which ended earlier this month.

The college president told Wright's student newspaper last month that team members had been disciplined for some behavior related to the incident at the Ottumwa Days Inn.According to court records, the alleged victim and three of her friends met Wright College team members Nov. 30 when they were playing a tournament at Indian Hills.They exchanged phone numbers, and some of the players called the women the following night to invite them to hang out at the Days Inn where they were staying.

The women, all 18 at the time, told police they went to the hotel and began drinking with about seven players and a member of the coaching staff, according to the affidavit for a search warrant for two Days Inn hotel rooms.

At around 12:30 AM on December 2, the victim's friends found themselves being pushed into, then locked in a bathroom, and when they were let out, they could not find the alleged victim.
four players ran into the next room when another door was opened. They found the victim passed out, with semen covering her chest and neck. There was also vomit in her mouth, and th friends called police. When she was taken to the local hospital, she tested with a BAC of 0.175. She was bleeding, and hairs which didn't belong to her were found on her body. when taken to the hospital.

The victim told police that she darnk and hung out with the players, but did not remember sex with any of them.