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Logan • When she learned that several women had accused former Utah State University linebacker Torrey Green of sexual assault, L.P. knew she had to report what happened to her in October 2014.

She had gone to Green's apartment that month to watch a movie, the woman testified Wednesday, and he sexually assaulted her.

She was too terrified to report the alleged attack then, she said. But she promised herself she would go to police if anyone else ever came forward with a similar accusation against Green.

"I didn't want her to feel alone," she testified in a 1st District courtroom Wednesday. "Because she's not."

L.P., as she is identified in court papers, was one of three women who took the witness stand Wednesday. They were the first of seven alleged victims expected to testify during Green's preliminary hearing, scheduled to continue into Friday.

Green is charged with 12 felonies in seven alleged attacks between November 2013 and November 2015, when he was a student at USU.

After hearing evidence, 1st District Judge Brian Cannell will rule whether there is probable cause to order Green to stand trial on six counts of rape, one count of aggravated kidnapping, three counts of forcible sex abuse and two counts of object rape. Green is being held in the Cache County jail without the possibility for bail.

The women who testified Wednesday said they met Green through Tinder on USU's campus. They described him as cute, tall and charming — a "good guy" who talked often about his family.

The women — strangers to one another — each testified that she agreed to watch a movie with Green at his apartment.

Once inside his bedroom, two of the women testified, Green raped them. She told him no, each woman said, but Green ignored the pleas to stop. L.P. testified that when she rebuffed Green's advances, he pinned her to a wall in his bedroom and grinded his body against hers.

Green's defense attorneys, Skye Lazaro and Rhiannon Mann, questioned the women's memories and asked why some of them did not yell for help or go to police immediately after the alleged assaults. The defense team also confirmed, through questioning, that there is no physical evidence that Green had sexual contact with the women.

The Salt Lake Tribune reported in July that four women had accused Green of sexual assaults in separate reports to police during 2015. The coverage prompted Cache County prosecutors to re-examine the cases. Since then, prosecutors have investigated at least 15 sexual assault allegations against the former college athlete.

The three women who testified Wednesday reported their alleged attacks to police after the Tribune story was published — but prosecutors presented evidence that all three had given their accounts to someone else long before the media attention.

One woman, identified in court papers as M.H., testified that she was assaulted by Green in November 2013, and said she told her on-again, off-again boyfriend what had happened.

"She seemed like she had been through some trauma," the boyfriend testified, adding that he punched a hole in his wall after she gave him a vague description of the alleged assault.

The woman met Green on Tinder, she testified, and she eventually agreed to go to his apartment for dinner and a movie.

He made her dinner, she said, and they talked about fried chicken and music. They ended up in Green's bedroom, she said, where they began to watch a movie and he gave her a massage. But when he began lifting up her shirt and trying to take her clothes off, the woman said, she asked him to stop.

He told her that she would like it, she testified, before he removed her clothes and raped her on his bed.

But she didn't report the alleged attack to police until 2016, she said, after her friends mentioned a news story about Green while they were on vacation in California.

Asked why she didn't report sooner, M.H. testified that she didn't know why — she "just didn't."

"I was in school," she said. "I had a lot going on, and I didn't realize it was happening to other girls."

Almost a year after M.H. says she was raped by Green, Carsen Davis met Green at USU's Taggart Student Center and gave him her number. She testified Wednesday that she went to Green's apartment for dinner. But they never got to dinner, she said, because he took her to his room to watch a movie.

Once there, they began kissing — which she said she consented to — but then he grabbed her buttocks. She told him no and asked him to stop, she said, but Green laughed it off.

When she tried to get away, she said, he pinned her against the wall. She eventually ended up on the bed, she said, where he removed her pants and raped her.

Immediately after the alleged assault, Davis said, she told her friend Alec Westover, but she did not name Green as her attacker. In a video-recorded interview played in court, Westover said he wanted Davis to go to a hospital but she refused.

"She told me she didn't want to get anybody in trouble," Westover said. "She didn't want anybody to know."

In an essay for an English class, Davis wrote about the assault but said she did not know the name of her attacker. She wrote that because she was scared, she told the court, and she "didn't want to ruin someone's life."

In another video-recorded interview, her English professor, Anne Marie Johnson, said she reached out to Davis after reading her paper.

But Davis didn't want to report, Johnson said, and she soon stopped coming to class.

Davis left USU in 2015 because of the alleged assault, she said, explaining that she "didn't feel comfortable living in Logan anymore."

The Tribune generally does not identify victims of sexual assault, but Davis has agreed to the use of her name.

L.P. alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Green in the same month as Davis.

The two met on Tinder, she said, and she agreed to a movie date at his apartment. But once the movie started, she testified, he began trying to cuddle and kiss her. She told him no, she said, and his demeanor changed; he became more forceful.

She tried to leave, but Green backed her into the bathroom and began grinding his body against her, she said. She got away and out of the bathroom, she said, but he pinned her to a wall in the bedroom and continued to push his body on hers.

"I was scared for my life at that point," she said. "I thought I was going to be raped."

She couldn't overpower him physically, she said, so she decided to try to get out of the situation by talking to Green. She started asking him what his mother would think of his actions, she said, and he eventually stopped.

After the alleged assault, L.P. said, she told her roommates and, the next day, her mother. She had bruises, she testified, but she didn't photograph them.

"I thought it was a one-time thing," she said. "I gave him the benefit of the doubt."