LOGAN — A former Utah State University offensive lineman accused of raping a woman after a music festival pleaded guilty this week to sexual battery charges.

Kingsley Holliday, 25, of Draper, was charged in 1st District Court with aggravated kidnapping, rape and forcible sodomy, all first-degree felonies, and obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony.

On Tuesday, Holliday pleaded no contest to reduced charges of two counts of aggravated assault, a second-degree felony, and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony, and three counts of sexual battery, a class A misdemeanor. He also submitted a separate no contest plea to a second-degree felony sexual abuse charge that will be held in abeyance for a period of 36 months.

According to the plea agreement, Holliday

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