MASON CITY – A man who signed this summer to play basketball at NIACC is accused of a sex offense on the campus and is now in jail.
Mason City police were called to the NIACC campus, 500 College Drive, on the afternoon of October 2 to investigate a sex offense. As a result of the investigation, officers arrested 18-year-old Rudge Hyppolite on a felony charge of third-degree sexual abuse for an assault allegedly committed on October 1 against a female victim.
Hyppolite is a 6-1 guard from Naples, Florida. He played at Lely High School, averaged 19.9 points, 7.1 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 3.7 steals per game as a senior and helped lead his team to a district championship. Hyppolite was a Class 5A third-team all-state selection.
“He makes 1,000 shots a day,” Lely coach Fritz Jacques was quoted as saying in the Naples News.
Now, Hyppolite is in the Cerro Gordo county jail, held on $10,000 bond. He will face a hearing on October 13. He has been removed from the school’s athletic website.
Sure are a lot of people on here taking the side of the accuser. I would have never expected the likes of LVS, Watchdog and Bode to team up and defend a sex crime. What is this world coming to?
******that should have said taking the side of the accused not accuser*****my bad
I am not taking the side of the accused. I think sexual assault is one of our society’s worst crimes and it should be dealt with harshly. However, one is innocent until proven guilty or at least I thought that was still one of the strong points of our country.
I still believe that you are innocent until PROVEN guilty. I am old school.
Sounds to me like an18 year old with an an overdose of testosterone. I agree with LVS this young man if found guilty has done himself tremendous harm. I will await the jury decision. And yes, I pray the young lady is ok.
You are making excuses for someone that is accused of a terrible crime like this? SAD
so boda, are you saying the girl is lying about the assualt? thought than never happened. Maybe the guy can get Hillary to defend him. She is good and getting them off and then laughing about it.
I would never blame the victim. What I am saying and what you understandably don’t understand, is that in the USA we have trials to prove whether or not someone is guilty.
Why would you even come here from Florida to go to NIACC?? isnt there any community colleges down there??
It’s call recruiting.
Nothing like coming from the heel of America to the armpit.
I see the NIT jury has determined guilt again.
And I see the “NIT jury” has expressed an opinion. It takes a court to determine guilt.
No, the real pity here is a girl got raped by this guy. I bet this isnt the first time he raped. he ruined his life a long time before he came to niacc. sad he never was taught respect. A dads job.
The real pity here is the guy is only 18 years old and has ruined his life. A charge like this will stick with him forever. It is why blacks seem to be targeted and not trusted.
Most people pity the victim not the perpetrator!
I feel pity for the girl that got sexually assaulted I don’t feel pity for this scumbag!
Did you ever read my comment?
Yes I did. It says, and I quote, “The real pity here is the guy is only 18 years old and has ruined his life.” Sounds to me like you feel sorry for the guy that committed this awful crime.
I am saying, in my opinion, the actual pity should be toward the victim and how this crime against her will change HER life forever.
The guy that you seem to pity chose to do this! The victim did not. All I’m saying is that most people would feel bad for the victim not the perpetrator.
Jack, lighten up. You are borrowing trouble from tomorrow just finding fault. Not a good trait. It’s not hard to understand what LVS was saying. We all have empathy and pity for the victim. It goes without saying!
You lighten up Lap Dog. The pity is for LVS. And if you don’t understand what he clearly said then pity on you too.
Watchdog- although I don’t always agree with your insite I believe I agree with you more then I disagree. Either way I have always had great respect for your well thought out comments…..that is until now……anyone that would stand up for a guy that deletes my comments just because he does not agree with my view point loses my respect. Anyone that does not believe in free speach looses my respect. You sir have lost my respect.
Not at all, he committed the crime and certainly knew what he was doing. It is a problem with people that feel entitled and think they can get away with anything. My comment was general and had nothing to do with the girl. She will have to live with this for the rest of her life. So, there are two lives that are destroyed due to him thinking he could get away with this. What a waste.
I am not defending anything. But, I do think we should wait for the trial before passing judgement. Usually two sides to every story.
I think there is a rush to judgement. He has not been convicted yet, just charged. There are always two sides to every story. What ever happens, two young people have had their lives changed forever.
Yes, i did read you comment but you found it necessary to delete my response comment for some reason.
Oh no. Mr. Alphabet stepped on his dick.
typical, go back over the years and every year there is a “sports import” that gets arrested, usually coach lets them play until their day in court, but somehow the day in court gets moved ahead and moved again til the season is over the then the “import” strangley disappears, never to play niacc sports again and never shows up in court. don’t believe me go over the records and see for yourself.
why don’t you shows us the proof instead of accusations.
Now you’ll be playing basketball on the Prison Courts 1 hour a day only! Just to have sex with a Women I think I’d rather Jerk off!!!
So nothing has really changed for you.
Whoops move on your part keep your dick in your pants man esp to North Iowa Women. North Iowa doesn’t need more single Parent mothers milking WIC benefits. I hope she was Worth it!