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Iowa State basketball player charged with sexual abuse
Posted: 09.07.2012 at 12:53 PM
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(AP) - Iowa State basketball player Bubu Palo has been arrested after being accused of sexually abusing a woman he was driving home earlier this year.

Coach Fred Hoiberg says the 21-year-old reserve point guard has been suspended indefinitely.

Palo and another man, Spencer Cruise, were charged with second-degree sexual abuse and facing a court appearance after surrendering to authorities on Friday. It was not clear if they have an attorney.

The criminal complaint says the men offered to give a woman a ride home on May 18 but instead drove her to a home owned by Cruise's family and "committed a sex act by force against the victim's will."

Police say evidence includes both men's DNA and test results only recently came back from a crime lab.

(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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