LOGAN — A 25-year-old former USU football player has been sentenced to three years in jail for sexually assaulting a woman during a party. Kingsley Krey Holliday was originally arrested in July 2023 and booked into the Cache County Jail, following an investigation by the North Park Police Department.
Kingsley was sentenced Jan. 12 in Logan’s 1st District Court. He previously pleaded “no contest” to two counts of aggravated assault and forcible sexual abuse, all second-degree felonies; along with pleading guilty to obstruction of justice, also a second-degree felony; and three counts of sexual battery, a class A misdemeanor.
The no contest plea meant Holiday conceded the alleged crimes occurred without admitting guilt or offering a defense. It is still viewed as a guilty plea in court.
According to prosecutors, police officers were called to a hospital emergency room on a reported rape on Sept. 3, 2022. The victim explained she was at an “event,” when an unknown man took her against her will to another location and sexually assaulted her.
The woman told police the man, later identified as Holliday, grabbed her wrist and dragged her out of the building, across a parking lot, road, and a ditch. He then forcibly sodomized and raped her.
Investigators report, witnesses placed Holliday at the event on the night of the incident. DNA evidence was collected from the victim and later matched the defendant’s.
The September event was being held in Hyde Park. It was not sanctioned by the school or football team.
During Monday’s sentencing, the victim told Holliday that she had been forced to live in misery after what he did. She explained how the experience had been completely traumatizing to her.
Earlier, the woman’s parents told the court how the incident occurred weeks after their daughter started her freshman year at USU. “You thought you were a big cool jock,” the couple told Holliday, “you’re just a spineless predator who went to a dance to prey on an innocent victim.”
Cache County deputy attorney Dane Murray said Holliday has continued to deny the allegations even though there was DNA evidence. He also explained how the defendant has multiple convictions going back to 2017, and has been written up 15 times by jail deputies while being held without bail.
Holliday spoke briefly, telling the court he was incredibly sorry. “I can’t imagine how hard it has been to the many people I hurt,” he said.
Judge Spencer Walsh said Holliday’s actions were a serious error in judgement and have impacted a lot of people. He sentenced the defendant to 3 years in jail, followed by up to four years of “zero tolerance” probation.
Holliday was given credit for time served, meaning he will be released July 10. He was also ordered to have no contact with the victim, register as a sex-offender, and turn his phone over to the Cache County Attorney’s Office to be destroyed.
According to USU’s football roster, Holiday was a junior offensive lineman, who walked onto the team after playing at Snow College. He never played for the team, and was immediately dismissed after being arrested.