{"id":478674,"date":"2026-02-14T03:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478674\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T03:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:32:08","slug":"byu-announces-removal-of-parker-kingston-from-football-team-after-rape-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478674\/","title":{"rendered":"BYU announces removal of Parker Kingston from football team after rape allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PROVO, Utah (KUTV) \u2014 BYU wide receiver Parker Kingston is no longer a student after being arrested and charged in connection with rape allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Kingston, 21, was charged with first-degree felony rape earlier this week. The charges followed after a year-long investigation that started in February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday, the university confirmed that Kingston had been removed from the football team.<\/p>\n<p>MORE | Parker Kingston Arrest<\/p>\n<p>BYU issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;University administration and athletic administration, including BYU Head Coach Kalani Sitake, were only made aware of the investigation and allegations after Kingston&#8217;s arrest this past Wednesday, Feb. 11.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>______<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PROVO, Utah (KUTV) \u2014 BYU wide receiver Parker Kingston is no longer a student after being arrested and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-478674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}