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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 08:48 PM Feb 2016

Suit: Football Player Beaten by Teammates for Helping Rape Victim

http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/nation/2016/02/12/suit-football-player-beaten-teammates-helping-rape-victim/

University of Tennessee football players confronted and assaulted wide receiver Drae Bowles as retribution for helping a woman who said she was raped by then-Volunteer players A.J. Johnson andMike Williams, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Nashville on Tuesday.

Bowles took the woman to a hospital on the night of the alleged rape in November 2014 and supported her decision to report the incident to authorities, according to the lawsuit.

While the woman, a student-athlete, was meeting with executive senior associate athletics director Jon Gilbert, senior associate athletics director Mike Ward and her coach, she received a message from her roommate "who was witnessing at that moment several football players jumping" Bowles, the lawsuit says. The woman informed the athletics officials of the incident and was told they would “look into it,” according to the suit. The lawsuit says "athletic coaches were present during that altercation."

Days later, the woman learned that Bowles was assaulted a second time at the team facility by the same players, the lawsuit says. She reported the second assault to university administrators as well.80281354/

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Suit: Football Player Beaten by Teammates for Helping Rape Victim (Original Post) Miles Archer Feb 2016 OP
What is it with football players these days? truedelphi Feb 2016 #1
You think it's women who have to change what they do? Demit Feb 2016 #4
Yes, I am from a different time period and slip every now and them Jim Beard Feb 2016 #5
Well, in case you also feel women should go back to attending all-women colleges Demit Feb 2016 #7
Seems like something else may be slipping Cal Carpenter Feb 2016 #9
I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught that, and had the same thought! N/T Ghost in the Machine Feb 2016 #15
LOL...oops. Iggo Feb 2016 #21
I am a woman, and in my day, if we were being gang-raped, it would have been truedelphi Feb 2016 #18
What does that play have to do with the topic of gang rape? Demit Feb 2016 #20
Entitled hyper-macho assholes hifiguy Feb 2016 #2
Article not at link noretreatnosurrender Feb 2016 #3
They must have deleted or moved it after I posted... Miles Archer Feb 2016 #10
I hate when they do that noretreatnosurrender Feb 2016 #13
Try this link Jim Beard Feb 2016 #6
Thanks Jim Miles Archer Feb 2016 #11
Great noretreatnosurrender Feb 2016 #14
The world would be better off without football. A Little Weird Feb 2016 #8
I'm pretty sure you can't blame football for rape mythology Feb 2016 #12
I'm sure that's true A Little Weird Feb 2016 #17
I used to love the sport - but between the truedelphi Feb 2016 #19
Bunch of misogynistic pigs. Lock them up robhalf4369 Feb 2016 #16
kick Blue_Tires Feb 2016 #22

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
1. What is it with football players these days?
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 08:53 PM
Feb 2016

For a long time in American history, women who attended college went to all female schools. Between the blood thirsty football players, the frat parties where coeds are gang raped - It almost seems like it is time to return to all women campuses.

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
4. You think it's women who have to change what they do?
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:25 PM
Feb 2016

And, excuse me—"coeds?" We call college students "students" these days.

You are from another time, my friend.

 

Jim Beard

(2,535 posts)
5. Yes, I am from a different time period and slip every now and them
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:30 PM
Feb 2016

has something to do with age.

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
7. Well, in case you also feel women should go back to attending all-women colleges
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:43 PM
Feb 2016

to avoid being raped, be advised that is deeply offensive.

Cal Carpenter

(4,959 posts)
9. Seems like something else may be slipping
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 11:03 PM
Feb 2016

You seem to be answering as though you posted reply #1. Needless to say, this is a very confusing exchange.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
18. I am a woman, and in my day, if we were being gang-raped, it would have been
Mon Feb 15, 2016, 05:43 PM
Feb 2016

Friggin' Lysistrata!

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
20. What does that play have to do with the topic of gang rape?
Mon Feb 15, 2016, 05:55 PM
Feb 2016

Your post sounds like it's supposed to be lighthearted, which would be weird enough, but a play about women withholding sex to get men to cease war has nothing to do with rape. Have you started happy hour early?

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
10. They must have deleted or moved it after I posted...
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 11:10 PM
Feb 2016

because that's the link where I copied the 4 paragraphs, and the link at the same time.

noretreatnosurrender

(1,890 posts)
13. I hate when they do that
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 12:59 AM
Feb 2016

I was just alerting you in case you wanted to find another link. At least we got the 4 paragraphs. lol

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
12. I'm pretty sure you can't blame football for rape
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 12:15 AM
Feb 2016

Scumbags have been committing rape for far longer than football has been around.

A Little Weird

(1,754 posts)
17. I'm sure that's true
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 11:02 AM
Feb 2016

It just seems there are an awful lot of football player rapist stories in the news. It's not the sport itself so much as the culture that surrounds it. You see the same thing in the military.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
19. I used to love the sport - but between the
Mon Feb 15, 2016, 05:47 PM
Feb 2016

Steroid use, the concussions, the obscene "fattening up" of poor African American high schoolers, and then the sexual abuse of women, including domestic violence, I do think it would be better to go without it.

When I was growing up, circa mid-Sixties, a player was the talk of the town if they weighed 235.

Now High Schoolers in the Deep South are far over that weight, and their coaches encourage them to get even heavier. Some of them might get the Big Payoff of a college scholarship and then the NFL ride of glory, but for many of these young people, they won't get a PayOut. All that is happening is that they are learning very bad eating habits which they may never figure out how to combat.

robhalf4369

(31 posts)
16. Bunch of misogynistic pigs. Lock them up
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 03:30 AM
Feb 2016

It seems that all sports these days are full of these a-holes. Just another reason why I don't really watch any sports-related stuff anymore.

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