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Eugene

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Sat Apr 9, 2016, 11:59 AM Apr 2016

Former Vanderbilt football player convicted of raping unconscious woman

Source: Reuters

World | Sat Apr 9, 2016 3:38am EDT

Former Vanderbilt football player convicted of raping unconscious woman

NASHVILLE | BY TIM GHIANNI

A former Vanderbilt University football player was found guilty on Friday of raping an unconscious female student in a dorm room three years ago.

Cory Batey is one of four former Vanderbilt football players charged with aggravated rape and aggravated sexual battery stemming from the June 2013 incident.

It took jurors just over two hours to reach the verdict.

This was the second trial and conviction for Batey. He and a fellow former Vanderbilt football player, Brandon Vandenburg, were found guilty in January 2015 of aggravated rape and aggravated sexual battery but the judge declared a mistrial because one of the jurors had failed to disclose that he himself was a victim of rape.

The victim in the Vanderbilt case, which drew national attention to sexual assaults on college campuses, had attended a party and was unconscious during the attack, which occurred in a dorm room on campus, prosecutors said.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tennessee-rape-trial-idUSKCN0X6074
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Former Vanderbilt football player convicted of raping unconscious woman (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2016 OP
sick wilt the stilt Apr 2016 #1
Please note that rape isn't an act a person does "with." Demit Apr 2016 #2
you get the gist. wilt the stilt Apr 2016 #3
The gist is that rape is not "having sex with" someone. Demit Apr 2016 #4
i called him sick wilt the stilt Apr 2016 #5
Missing the forest for the trees here... TipTok Apr 2016 #6
Good mythology Apr 2016 #7
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