Divine Intervention!!! Football Player Falsely Accused of Rape Cleared of All Charges

Rape charges were dropped against Praise Martin Oguike, a 20 year old Temple University football player who was accused of rape and facing trial. All charges were dropped during what was supposed to be the first week of jury selection in his trial.

Praise Martin Oguike, was arrested in May and subsequently expelled from the University after the allegations were made against him. A girl accused him of raping her inside his dorm room, and though Oguike’s father maintained that the sex was consensual, his son was charged with rape.

Oguike spoke with Action News after the charges were dropped  "It's been tough. I don't even know how to explain it. It's somewhere that nobody wants to be,".  He also says it has been 17 months of hell.

Martin-Oguike and his family emigrated from Nigeria back in 1999. His father and mother are involved in the Episcopalian ministry in Sewaren, New Jersey.

"God has delivered us as he promised. No matter what the devil will do, God will deliver us," mother Ngozi Martin-Oguike said.

“For the past 18 months, this young man has lived under a terrible cloud,” said his attorney, James Funt. “After being branded as a rapist for a crime he did not commit, he was ostracized, stripped of his athletic scholarship, kιcked out of Temple University and vilified nationally and on the Internet. The stain on his reputation and the impact on his life will never be completely erased.”

His attorney filed a motion last month to have the accuser’s text messages entered as evidence. Those text messages allegedly exposed the accuser’s motives for  falsely claiming that Oguike raped her.

The district attorney's office is yet to indicate if it will pursue criminal charges against the accuser for making false allegations.