Bixby football players admit to sexual assault on teammate; parent of one suspect tried to purchase

Court documents: Bixby football players admit to sexual assault on teammate; parent of one suspect tried to purchase evidence

Public court documents filed Tuesday reveal new details about the evidence law enforcement investigators have gathered in the sexual assault investigation involving Bixby High School football players.

Among the revelations contained in new search warrant affidavits:

• Records obtained through a previous search warrant at Bixby Public Schools included written statements from five juveniles “admitting their various levels of participation in the sexual assault of the victim and the video recording of the sexual assault.”

• One juvenile and his parent came forward to police the night before investigators seized school employee and juvenile suspects’ cellphones and admitted that the boy video-recorded the sexual assault and consented to having his cellphone searched. They told police they were concerned about protecting potential evidence on the cellphone because a parent of one of the suspects “had recently offered to purchase” that juvenile’s cellphone.

• Athletic Director Jay Bittle took a written statement from the victim on Oct. 26, but the “first known” reporting of the sexual assault to any investigative agency wasn’t until an Oct. 31 meeting with Bixby police previously described to investigators as “off the record.” Additionally, “those present indicated Superintendent Kyle Wood would not allow school officials to report the incident to the police until the morning of Nov. 2.”

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