Daily Iowan

Issue date: 6/17/08 Section: Metro

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The alleged victim of a reported Hillcrest sex-assault case involving two former Hawkeye football players told police she hardly remembers the night but does recall telling one of the accused to stop having sexual intercourse with her, according to recently released search warrants.

The court order sealing the search warrants in the case was terminated on June 12. Since the beginning of the investigation in November, the six warrants have been sealed and resealed four times. In the court order, 6th District Judge Marsha Bergan wrote that the court has no legal basis for the warrants to remain sealed.

In an investigative police report attached to the three warrants unsealed, the victim and other witnesses to the alleged incident link ex-Hawkeyes Abe Satterfield, 19, and Cedric Everson, 18, to the alleged rape.

Police obtained arrest warrants for the two on May 13. Satterfield was charged with second-degree sexual assault, and Everson was charged with second- and third-degree sexual assault.

In the report, the accuser said she began drinking the night of Oct. 13, 2007, around 7 or 8 p.m. in her dorm room. She said that she and her friends were mixing Malibu rum and different types of juice that night before heading to an apartment party at approximately 8:30 p.m., she said.

The night of the alleged incident was only the second time the victim reported she had consumed alcohol. She referred to herself as a "major lightweight," saying she easily got drunk that night and remembered only bits and pieces of certain events.

The woman told police that at about 11 p.m., Satterfield and another former Hawkeye football player, Jevon Pugh, 19, sat next to her on a bench outside Hillcrest. She said she last remembered being inside the dorm, telling the two she wanted to go to bed. She next remembered being in a room that was empty except for beds and furniture.

Investigators said that room was later identified as N207, the room of Hawkeye football player Lance Tillison, 21, who was not living in the room at the time.

Once in the room, the victim alleged that Pugh began touching her on her crotch before he left the room. She reported that next Satterfield pulled down his pants, while she told him she "didn't want to do this."

The search warrants then provided a graphic detail of an alleged rape.

The victim told police she attempted to "cut it off short" by giving Satterfield oral sex. Although shortly after, she allegedly remembered him forcing her to have sexual intercourse with him.

She said Satterfield was holding her arms down as she repeatedly told him to stop because it hurt.

The next thing she reported was waking up without any clothes on at approximately 6 a.m., with her arms and legs covered in blood. The victim told police in an interview that she had never had sexual intercourse before.

The following month, investigators interviewed another Iowa football player, 19-year-old Michael Daniels.


Daniels told police he was with Everson when Everson told him Satterfield had just "hit it" with the victim. Everson then allegedly said he planned to have sex with the girl as well.

Daniels alleged that at approximately 4 a.m., Everson entered the room where Satterfield and the victim were still in a bed, shut the door, then opened it three minutes later, giving a thumbs up to Daniels with a "smirk on his face."

The next day, Daniels reported Everson was telling him and Pugh how he had sexual intercourse with the woman while she was "just lying there." Daniels also reported that Everson made it seem as if the woman wanted to have sex with him.

Numerous reports allege that Everson and Satterfield were in possession of two keys to the vacated room. UI residence-hall officials have not returned calls regarding dorm-room keys in general.

Also in November 2007, investigators interviewed a third Hawkeye football player, Derrell Johnson-Koulianos, 21, who moved into room N207 after the alleged incident occurred. Johnson-Koulianos reported that he found used condoms near one of the beds and threw away a mattress cover that had an "orangeish-reddish color" substance on it.

The wide receiver also told police a rumor was "floating around" the locker room that Satterfield and Everson had raped someone. He said Satterfield told him that the sex was consensual and that Everson denied involvement.

According to police reports from May, Satterfield told police that he had sex with the victim that night. Medical officials later conducted a sexual-assault examination on the woman, finding sperm inside of her that matches the DNA profile of Everson.

Johnson County prosecutor Janet Lyness said she did not know when the other three search warrants will be released.

E-mail DI reporter Olivia Moran at:
olivia-moran@uiowa.edu

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