‘I didn’t ruin your career. You did,’ Torrey Green sentenced 26 years-to-life

Torrey Green has been sentenced to a total of 26 years to life in prison for raping five women and sexually assaulting another, Tuesday in front of a packed Brigham City courthouse.

Judge Brian Cannell sentenced the former Utah State University linebacker to five years to life for each of the five rapes he was found guilty of in January, five years to life for one count of object rape, 1-15 years for one count of forcible sexual abuse, and up to one year for one misdemeanor sexual battery.

The five rape charges and the sexual battery charge will be served concurrently, meaning Green could serve 25-26 years depending on future parole hearings. He will serve time for object rape and forcible sexual abuse concurrently.

“What you did was horrendous,” Cannell told Green. “These survivors didn’t want it, they didn’t like it.”

Cannell also said most of the criminals he sees in his courtroom come from broken families, unlike Green.

“You came from a wonderful home,” he said. “I don’t know what happened.”

Five of the six victims were present in the courtroom, and three addressed the judge. Green, his mother and his lawyer Skye Lazaro did also.

Lazaro asked for the eight terms to be served concurrently based on Green having no criminal history prior to these charges and his more than two years in Cache County Jail with no problems.

“Torrey is not a threat to anyone,” Green’s mother told the judge.

She said she believes “there is no way” he raped these women.

Green also took the stand, insisting that he was innocent.

“I’m horrified by the way these women described my encounters with them,” he said. “I would never purposely inflict such actions upon anyone.”

He said he dishonored his family and his religious beliefs by having sex with these women before marriage, but he believes he did nothing wrong legally.

“I’m not a monster, as I have been depicted,” he said through tears.
The three women then stood to address Cannell — and Green himself.

“I was deceived by a true predator,” victim LP told the judge.

“He had not only violated me, but he had done it to others. I could not sit in silence anymore,” she said of her reporting Green after hearing about the other women.

“Attention is the last thing I wanted,” she said. “It was not a cry for attention, but a call for action.”

She turned to face Green and spoke directly to him.

“No means no, and I hope you realize that now,” she said. “I would go back again and report you over and over.”

“I am no longer afraid of you. I am no longer ashamed,” she continued. “You will get exactly what you deserve.”

VS, who was the first to report Green to the police, said she had never “stared evil in the face” before the night he raped her.

“He took away my voice and my choice that night,” she said.

She dropped out of USU after finding it too difficult to attend classes or to even be on campus. She found it nearly impossible to tell her family why she was struggling.

“I couldn’t tell them I was OK, because I wasn’t. I couldn’t tell them not to worry, because they should,” VS said.

She then turned to Green and said, “I didn’t ruin your career. You did.”

“My rape kit doesn’t lie,” she added, saying also that the post-traumatic stress disorder she now has is not a side effect of consensual sex.

CH recalled to Cannell how Green asked her immediately after raping her if she was going to tell anyone. She said she was scared and told Green she wouldn’t.

“Well guess what, Torrey? I did tell someone,” she said to Green. “Your actions will now make as much of a difference in your life as they have in mine.”

Prosecuting attorney Spencer Walsh then gave his final statements to the judge, asking him to serve all eight sentences consecutively. He said Green serving concurrent time would not do justice to the six individual women he hurt.

“At the very least, justice demands consecutive prison time,” Walsh said. “It is far worse to rape six women than one.”

Giving Green the maximum sentences would send a message from the court to the state of Utah, Walsh said: “We take sexual assault cases very seriously.”