The former NBA player Ben McCamore was sentenced to 8+ years of prison for rape

Portland, hours. (AP) – A judge of Ogon on Wednesday sentenced the former NBA player Ben Mclermore to over eight years in prison, a week after a The jury found it guilty to rape a woman at a 2021 party at the house of a then teammate.

The former Blazer Trail Portland was sentenced to 100 months of prison by the judge of the Court of the County County County Michael Wetzel, according to the Portland KGW television station. The jury of last week found the 32 -year -old guilty of rape, illegal sexual penetration and a counting of sexual abuse. It has been declared not guilty for another count of sexual abuse.

The accusations involved a 21 -year -old woman and derived from a party in a house owned by the then partner Robert Covington in the socket of Portland of Lake Oswego.

During the trial, the public ministries of the County of Clackamas described the sexual encounter as rape. The defense claimed that it was consensual sex.

The woman witnessed that she was incapacitated due to alcohol and was unable to consent, Kgw reported. McCamore said he had also drank but he testified that he was consensual.

McLemore, who played college at Kansas, was the seventh choice in the 2013 draft of the Kings sacrament. He also played for Memphis, Houston and Los Angeles Lakers before his last season NBA with Portland in 2021-2022.

Since then, he has played professionally abroad in Europe, China and Türkiye.