Former Player Is Charged With Rape

Dzaflo Larkai, a former member of the La Salle men’s basketball team, will stand trial on a rape charge after a former member of the women’s team testified he had sex with her last year while she was asleep.

The woman told authorities this year that she had informed women’s Coach John Miller and men’s Coach Billy Hahn in 2003 about the alleged assault, but she declined to file charges at the coaches’ urging. Both coaches denied that account.

The alleged attack was not reported to police for 14 more months, when another young woman testified that she was raped by two of Larkai’s teammates. Gary Neal and Michael Cleaves are awaiting trial in that case.