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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.

A man accused of coaching his teenage brother to sexually assault another teenager was ordered to stand trial on multiple felony charges on Thursday.

Wyatt Farrow, 22, of Overland Park, is charged with two felony counts of aggravated sodomy, two felony counts of furnishing alcohol to a minor and one misdemeanor count of hosting minors consuming alcohol. The charges against Farrow are in connection with an incident on Feb. 19, 2022, in Lawrence and specifically allege that he caused two people to engage in sexual acts when they were intoxicated and incapable of giving consent.

Farrow had previously been ordered to stand trial for one count of aggravated sodomy in March 2024, after the court heard testimony about that night from a woman who was 17 at the time of the incident, as the Journal-World reported.

The woman testified that while her recollection was fuzzy, she remembered being in a bedroom with Farrow’s younger brother, Everett Farrow, who was also 17 at the time, and kissing him, and later feeling “pressure on my chest and thighs” and hearing the buzz of a vibrating toy. She testified that Wyatt repeatedly came into the room and whispered things into Everett’s ear, but she didn’t know what he was saying.

At the hearing, prosecutors alleged that Wyatt was coaching his brother on what to do.

Also played in court at that time was a video that Wyatt made of the teen, in which she is in a bathroom, slurring her speech and appearing disoriented, and Wyatt tells her that “nobody raped anybody.”

A sexual assault nurse examiner from LMH Health testified that DNA swabs of the teen’s chest and private areas matched a sample collected from Everett.

Everett was also originally charged with aggravated sodomy, and Wyatt’s attorney, Cooper Overstreet, had asked the court to consolidate the two cases so both brothers would go to trial at the same time. But then, the prosecution dismissed the charges against Everett; claimed that he was also a victim; and charged Wyatt with the additional sodomy count. A new preliminary hearing was held in November 2024, at which the prosecution argued that Wyatt should be ordered to stand trial on the new set of charges.

Hanley said she waited until Thursday to make her ruling so that she could consider case law presented by Overstreet and so she could review the transcript of the hearing. Hanley set Wyatt’s trial date for Sept. 2.

The brothers’ father, Anthony Steven Farrow, 38, of Lawrence, has already been convicted in connection with the case. He pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count of unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcohol in August 2024. Lawrence Police Detective Evan Curtis had testified in March 2024 that Wyatt had asked Anthony to bring home vodka so he could get his younger brother his “first kiss.”

Wyatt Farrow is currently free on a $50,000 bond.