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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/
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)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)And, excuse me"coeds?" We call college students "students" these days.
You are from another time, my friend.
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)has something to do with age.
Demit
(11,238 posts)to avoid being raped, be advised that is deeply offensive.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)You seem to be answering as though you posted reply #1. Needless to say, this is a very confusing exchange.
Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Friggin' Lysistrata!
Demit
(11,238 posts)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?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)showing their "manliness" I guess.
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)FYI: The article is not at the link.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)because that's the link where I copied the 4 paragraphs, and the link at the same time.
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)I was just alerting you in case you wanted to find another link. At least we got the 4 paragraphs. lol
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)Thank you.
A Little Weird
(1,754 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Scumbags have been committing rape for far longer than football has been around.
A Little Weird
(1,754 posts)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)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)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.