Alleged unpunished rapes by Tennessee college footballers are now the subject of a federal investigation via the Office of Civil Rights for the US Department of Education.
Since 2013, at least a half-dozen University of Tennessee football players have been accused of sex assaults, in separate incidents that have seen few if any consequences, except for the victims themselves.
That situation has finally caused one victimized female student to file a claim with OCR “regarding the university’s response to a report of sexual violence.”
The woman is believed to be the same one who reported she had been violently raped by a star UT player last year -- a charge of sexual misconduct the university “investigated internally” and ultimately dismissed as “consensual.”
The unidentified suspect, who remains a player in good standing, joins fellow accused teammates Michael Williams, AJ Johnson, Von Pearson, Riyahd Jones, Marlin Lane, and others, who have similarly escaped full prosecution.
OCR indicated that the accusation of rapes by Tennessee college footballers going largely unpunished at UT is just one of “135 cases under investigation for issues of sexual violence,” in a federal probe “of 121 post-secondary schools.”
University of Tennessee’s chancellor James Cheek cited privacy laws for not disclosing details of the complaint against his particular college, stating in a campus email only that “we will cooperate fully with OCR as it investigates” the matter.
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