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Three former Michigan State football players sentenced to probation

Josh King and Donnie Corley declined comment after the hearing. Demetric Vance said he thought the sentence was "pretty fair."

LANSING, Mich. - Three former Michigan State football players who accepted plea deals to a charge of seduction in a sexual assault case were sentenced Wednesday to 36 months probation and ordered to undergo sex offender treatment.

Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina also ordered Josh King, Donnie Corley and Demetric Vance to complete 100 hours of service, with a 365-day suspended jail sentence. They won’t serve it unless they violate probation. They’d faced up to five years in prison.

Aquilina did not ban the three from social media, but ordered them to stay off Tinder or similar dating apps and websites, and they will not have to register as sex offenders.

King and Corley declined comment after the hearing. Vance said he thought the sentence was "pretty fair."

Corley, 20, and Vance, 21, both of Detroit, had been charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct. They each faced up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

King, 20, of Darien, Illinois, originally faced the most serious charges: one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, one count of third-degree criminal sexual conduct and capturing an image of an unclothed person. He faced up to life in prison if convicted.

Michigan State University Police said at a hearing that led to the charges that the victim reported King invited her to "speak somewhere quiet," then "pulled" her into a bathroom and forced her to perform oral and vaginal sex; Corley and Vance were each accused of later forcing her to perform oral sex.

Police also allege that King recorded himself having sex with the woman.

The seduction charge involves seducing an unmarried woman for sexual acts.

Their court records also would become non-public under a Michigan law that allows judges to close the records of young offenders as long as they meet the terms of their agreement and do not commit any future offenses. Aquilina said during their plea hearing that she would grant Holmes Youthful Trainee status to all three.

The former players, who had been suspended from the team during the police investigation, were dismissed from the football team after they were charged in June. They also were dismissed from MSU following university Title IX investigations.

Contact Christopher Haxel at 517-377-1261 or chaxel@lsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @ChrisHaxel.

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