A standout Conwell-Egan Catholic High School student and football player has been charged with rape and other offenses in Philadelphia.
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Zamire J. Cottrell, 18, of Bensalem Township, was charged this month by Philadelphia authorities with rape by forcible compulsion, unlawful contact with a minor – sexual offenses, unlawful restraint, sexual assault, false imprisonment, corruption of minors, indecent assault by forceable compulsion, indecent exposure, simple assault, and reckless endangerment. He was preliminarily arraigned before a city judge and released after posting $150,000 bail through a bail bond company.
Cottrell is accused of raping a 16-year-old girl in Northeast Philadelphia on March 5 after getting kicked out of a concert hours before at Tyler State Park for drinking, court papers filed by the Philadelphia Police Department said, according to the Bucks County Courier Times.
The article reported police have social media messages between Cottrell and a person who was reportedly at the scene and the 18 year old’s attorney didn’t let investigators speak with him.
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Citing an Archdiocese of Philadelphia spokesperson, the newspaper article said a Conwell-Egan Catholic High School student was facing a sexual assault charge and has been suspended from the Bristol Township school until the case is over.
At the end of March, just before the charges were lodged in Philadelphia’s courts, Cottrell committed to play for Penn State University in the fall as a defensive lineman.
The Daily Collegian, the Penn State University student paper, reported Cottrell had offers from Temple University and St. Francis University.
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Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.
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