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The Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center is pictured in March of 2022. The center houses the Douglas County District Court and other county services.

An Overland Park man, his younger brother and their father are all facing charges in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl, and one of the men has been ordered to stand trial.

The older brother, Wyatt Farrow, 21, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count each of aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated sexual battery and providing alcohol to a minor and one misdemeanor count of unlawfully hosting a minor consuming alcohol. The charges relate to an incident on Feb. 19, 2022.

The younger brother, born in 2004, Everett Farrow, is charged in Juvenile Court with one count of aggravated criminal sodomy and aggravated sexual battery, both felonies. Everett’s specific date of birth was not provided in the charging documents, but he was a minor at the time of the incident.

And their father, Anthony Stevens Farrow, 42, of Lawrence, is charged with one misdemeanor count each of providing alcohol to a minor and hosting a minor consuming alcohol, according to charging documents.

Wyatt appeared in court Friday for a preliminary hearing at which the woman, now 19 but then 17, testified that Wyatt and his girlfriend had invited her to the family’s home in Lawrence. The woman said that when she arrived she was given a single shot of alcohol, which affected her differently from any alcohol she had consumed in the past.

“I got really fuzzy in the head,” she testified.

The woman said that she expected to have a fun evening playing games, but she, Wyatt, his girlfriend and Everett played only one game: truth or dare.

“Everett was dared to run naked outside. I got up to watch but fell back down,” the woman testified.

She said she couldn’t remember any other dares during the game. She said at some point she and Everett ended up in Wyatt’s bedroom and she and Everett kissed. She said she couldn’t remember if she took her own clothes off, but she did remember the pain that followed.

“I felt a lot of pressure on my chest and then my thighs,” she said.

She said that while this was happening, Wyatt and his girlfriend came into the room multiple times and Wyatt would whisper something into Everett’s ear, but she didn’t know what. She said at some point she heard the buzz of a vibrating toy followed by more pain.

“I felt very light-headed, very sweaty, in and out of consciousness,” the woman said.

Afterward, the woman said she became very upset and went to the bathroom, where Wyatt’s girlfriend helped her get dressed and tried to calm her down, she said. The woman said she didn’t leave right away because she had had the one shot of alcohol and didn’t want to drive under the influence.

The next morning, she went home, where her mother noticed she was acting strangely. When she told her mother what happened, her mother called the police and insisted on going to the hospital for a rape kit, the woman testified.

A sexual assault nurse examiner from LMH Health testified that she collected DNA swabs from the woman and a sample of blood to test for alcohol and drugs. She said she observed injuries on the woman’s chest, thighs and vaginal area. She said the woman was physically sensitive during the exam, possibly due to bruising.

Chief Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Tatum asked the nurse if she knew of drugs that could make the woman have memory issues but would not show up on a blood test. The nurse said “yes,” those types of drugs do exist.

Tatum, who noted that the samples were taken the day after the incident, said that the blood showed neither alcohol nor illicit drugs. She said the DNA swabs of the woman’s chest and private areas matched Everett’s collected sample.

The woman testified that after talking to police she contacted Wyatt, the older brother, who told her that he had taken a video of her from that night, which he sent to the woman and she then turned over to police.

Tatum then called Lawrence Police Detective Evan Curtis to the stand, who testified that he collected Wyatt’s phone data and reviewed messages he sent to his father and to the woman.

Prior to the woman arriving at the Farrow residence, Wyatt had messaged Anthony to request that he buy some vodka before coming home, Curtis said.

“The alcohol is for a good cause,” Wyatt messaged Anthony before sending another message that read: “Everett might just finally kiss a girl.”

Tatum then played the video that Wyatt sent to the woman, which was taken while the woman was in the bathroom.

In the video, the woman is difficult to understand as her speech slurs and she sounds both confused and animated while Wyatt talks to her.

Wyatt tells the woman that she kissed Everett first but she disengaged with Everett when she started to feel pain. The woman was confused as to whether she had violated Everett since she was a few months older. Wyatt assures her that Everett never penetrated her and that everything that happened was consensual.

“See, nobody raped anybody,” Wyatt is heard saying on the video.

The woman tells Wyatt that she shouldn’t be discussing what happened with him and that she doesn’t remember what happened.

“I am so embarrassed,” the woman says in the video.

Wyatt then tells the woman that she does remember. “What you and Everett did was not even close to rape,” he says.

Wyatt’s attorney, Cooper Overstreet, said that the video was exonerating evidence that showed the woman consented to the sexual contact and at the time even believed that she had raped Everett.

“Wanting to get your brother his first kiss is not conspiring to commit sexual assault,” Overstreet said.

Judge Sally Pokorny, however, was not swayed by Overstreet’s argument and ordered Wyatt to stand trial on all of the charges as an aider and abettor.

“That video shows a very drunk young girl,” Pokorny said.

She said the video was consistent with the woman’s testimony that she was too inebriated to consent and that while some may view the video as proof of consent, others may not.

“(The video) is also consistent with a person who is worried about being charged with an offense,” Pokorny said.

Everett’s case is still pending in juvenile court, and he is next scheduled to appear on April 3 for a status conference. The father, Anthony, has applied for diversion with the District Attorney’s Office and is scheduled to have that application reviewed on April 10.

Wyatt is currently free on a $50,000 bond. He is next scheduled to appear in court on March 26 to be arraigned.