MU football player charged with rape

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri freshman linebacker Alvin Newhouse was charged Monday with forcible rape and forcible sodomy, police said.

University police Capt. Brian Weimer said the victim came to police Sunday afternoon, accusing Newhouse of raping her early that morning in his Graham Hall dorm room.

Weimer said Newhouse, 19, was arrested at 1:35 a.m. Monday.

Newhouse was arraigned by video at the Boone County Jail. He was being held Monday on $60,000 bail. Newhouse was told he could not have any contact with the victim or return to Graham Hall.

Newhouse also had an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court from a campus violation, police said.

Reno Savala, Newhouse's guardian in Dallas, Texas, said Newhouse told he was innocent, that the intercourse was consensual.

"If he's done something he'd admit it to me, and if not, he'll fight it to the end," Savala told STLtoday.com, the Web site of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Alvin isn't a rapist. He doesn't need to rape anybody. He didn't do this. The truth will come out."

Newhouse was a freshman running back/linebacker from South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas. He did not play this season.