COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Former University of Missouri football running back Derrick Washington has been sentenced to five years in prison for the off-campus sexual assault of a former Tiger athletics tutor.
Washington was sentenced Monday, two months after a Columbia jury found him guilty of forcibly fondling the sleeping woman in June 2010.
Washington had faced up to seven years in prison. But he could now be released after 120 days in a “shock incarceration” program while remaining on probation for the duration of his sentence.
Washington didn’t speak during the brief hearing other than to acknowledge the judge’s decision. His attorney and family members declined comment afterward.
Washington was Missouri’s leading rusher as a sophomore and junior until he was kicked off the team before his senior year after the accusations surfaced.
