Man accused of groping Penn State students at Beaver Stadium during White Out game
A man was charged Monday after five Penn State students told university police he touched them inappropriately during last month’s White Out game.
Liam Kirk, 20, was accused of groping three women in the student section. Kirk, of Chester County, was also accused of hitting one woman on the top of the head and elbowing another in the head.
Kirk was “highly intoxicated” and “caused great annoyance” as the Nittany Lions played the Auburn Tigers, university police wrote in an affidavit of probable cause. He was not permitted to be in the student section.
The university issued a timely warning after the allegations were reported. A defense lawyer was not listed.
Kirk is a sophomore running back for the Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens. He is suspended “until further notice,” a university spokesperson wrote in an email Tuesday.
He was charged with three misdemeanor counts of indecent assault, one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, two summary counts of harassment and one summary count of public drunkenness.
His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 24.
This story was originally published October 26, 2021 at 12:49 PM.