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Baylor lawsuit alleges 52 rapes by football players in 4 years, 'show 'em a good time' culture
Dallas News ^ | 1-27-17 | Sarah Mervosh

Posted on 01/27/2017 7:10:04 PM PST by dynachrome

A Baylor University graduate who says she was raped by football players in 2013 sued the university Friday. Her lawsuit includes an allegation that 31 Baylor football players committed at least 52 acts of rape, including five gang rapes, between 2011 and 2014 — an estimate that far exceeds the number previously provided by school officials. Those figures could not be independently verified Friday, and Baylor officials declined to comment on their accuracy. The woman, identified in the suit by the pseudonym Elizabeth Doe, reports being gang raped by then-Baylor football players Tre'Von Armstead and Shamycheal Chatman after a party on April 18, 2013.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: baylor; education; football; rape; texas
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Long article, seems like there was a lot of problems in the football program.

"Former assistant coach Kendal Briles — the son of the head coach — once told a Dallas-area student athlete, "Do you like white women? Because we have a lot of them at Baylor and they love football players," according to the suit. "

1 posted on 01/27/2017 7:10:04 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

That’s real Christian of them.


2 posted on 01/27/2017 7:11:21 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: dynachrome

Nobody is that stupid to say something like that. Not even Kendal Briles.


3 posted on 01/27/2017 7:12:50 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: dynachrome

That’s it, no more Amish recruits!


4 posted on 01/27/2017 7:13:03 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: dynachrome

Chip and Joanna Gaines will not be happy about their Alma Mater.


5 posted on 01/27/2017 7:13:17 PM PST by DAC21
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To: dynachrome
Not discounting it completely, but it surely brings to mind the adage: can't rape the willing
6 posted on 01/27/2017 7:13:35 PM PST by tomkat
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To: dynachrome

Similar to many other schools, including our military academies.


7 posted on 01/27/2017 7:13:52 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: crusty old prospector

I heard that story several months ago.

From what I read the player’s parents were disgusted and made sure he did not sign with Baylor.


8 posted on 01/27/2017 7:15:46 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: dynachrome

Tre’Von and Shamycheal.


9 posted on 01/27/2017 7:16:28 PM PST by PAR35
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To: bgill

Would that be unlawful sexual assault or Obama Justice Dept ‘rape culture’ ‘rape’?


10 posted on 01/27/2017 7:17:44 PM PST by Calusa (Let our children be dreamers, too! Donald Trump (and Kellyanne Conway))
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To: dynachrome

As long as the team was winning, no complaints from the administration or the Baptist General Convention of Texas.


11 posted on 01/27/2017 7:18:26 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Actually, the alumni of Baylor are furious as is the BGCT. If this gets much more air play, they may vote to drop football.


12 posted on 01/27/2017 7:20:13 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Calusa
Would that be unlawful sexual assault or Obama Justice Dept ‘rape culture’ ‘rape’?

Good question. The word has been cheapened by the left.

13 posted on 01/27/2017 7:20:18 PM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: dynachrome

Interesting which rape stories we believe and which we don’t.


14 posted on 01/27/2017 7:27:25 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: tomkat
I have read the article, and as often in such cases, I am not sure why the investigation is left to an academic institution rather than the police.

My impression is that there was a lot of ugly stuff, but it would be difficult for a jury to decide.

For instance, this account:

Doe became intoxicated at the party and apparently returned home with Armstead and Chatman. When her roommate's boyfriend arrived later that night, the suit says, he heard "what sounded like wrestling and a fist hitting someone," a loud bang and a woman saying "no." When the boyfriend asked if everything was OK, one of the men inside yelled that Doe "was fine." Armstead and Chatman then emerged from the room, and the boyfriend saw Doe partially unclothed on the floor. The woman had a bruise on her cheek and a bite mark on her neck, according to the suit. Doe initially told police she had not been sexually assaulted but later decided to file a report because she woke up with bruises and a feeling in her vaginal area that indicated she had had sex, even though she did not remember. One of the woman's teammates on the Baylor Bruin group to host prospective athletes instructed Doe to tell police she had "consensual sex with one white male" to protect the athletes, the lawsuit alleges. It cites a Title IX investigation into the incident, which later showed that Chatman had called the Bruin and given her the "assignment."

15 posted on 01/27/2017 7:29:04 PM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: dynachrome

Didn’t read the article, but here’s my opinion anyway.
If the so-called feminists REALLY cared about their “sisters,” shouldn’t they be counseling them in ways to avoid “rape” (translation: morning after regret)?
Like, for instance, don’t go to fraternity parties and get pie-faced falling down drunk. Sheesh.


16 posted on 01/27/2017 7:31:40 PM PST by mumblypeg (Make America Macho Again.)
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To: BlackVeil

There was video last year of several Black Spring breakers raping a drunk White girl on Panama City Beach. It was definitely rape and they were convicted and sentenced tho I don’t remember what they got.

It is not often tho that you get video of the act.


17 posted on 01/27/2017 7:33:02 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

I didn’t know the Amish were so horney!


18 posted on 01/27/2017 7:35:02 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: dynachrome

“...Seems like there was a lot of problems in the football program...”

No kidding? For realz?!

Baylor’s football program was a perennial loser for 5 decades, but miraculously became an NCAA Titan overnight. Hmmm, and nobody ever gave a moment to pause and ask, “how did that happen?”

Well for those of us that pay attention, Baylor’s recruiting department used the Miami football manual from the early 1980’s and went into the urban jungle, and found as many drug-dealing, gang-raping, gang-banging, drive-by shooting, vicious, alpha male type silver-back gorillas as possible, who met the minimum NCAA standards of qualifying as a student-athlete, and gave them a full scholarship. And to hell with your rich, privileged, young, nubile, spoiled, ignorant, and dumba$$ daughters. This is Texas. We love football and it is long last time since Baylor University had a winning football program.

Now, Y’all can kiss my Texas grits and to HE11. We got ourselves a winning football team again

Yee Haw, B1tches! Go Bears!

Most sincerely yours,
Baylor University Alumni Football Club


19 posted on 01/27/2017 7:35:55 PM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: crusty old prospector

Baylor alums, not speaking for the university, took out several full page ads in state newspapers thanking Art Briles.

Some may be furious, but there is divided opinion amongst them, which is shocking.


20 posted on 01/27/2017 7:41:12 PM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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