No charges against Tennessee football player accused of sexual assault

Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2016-03-22 16:13

Story here. Excerpt:

'The Knox County district attorney last year determined that "no sustainable prosecution exists" to pursue sexual assault charges against a former UT football player — an incident that is briefly cited in asexual assault lawsuit brought against the University of Tennessee by eight former students.
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one of the plaintiffs is a former roommate of a woman who reported being sexually assaulted who said she felt forced to leave the school after intimidation by football players.

In at least five cases, the university's own disciplinary process found, by a preponderance of evidence, that athletes referenced in the lawsuit had violated student codes of conduct by engaging in non-consensual sex, according to the lawsuit.'

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http://usatodayhss.com/2016/high-school-coach-of-expelled-yale-hoops-captain-jack-montague-yale-on-modern-day-witch-hunt

Here’s just some of what King wrote about Montague’s perceived persecution:

Expelled Yale basketball captain Jack Montague is a modern day Giles Corey. He’s the victim of a Title IX witch-hunt, where his dreams, reputation and future employment are being ‘pressed’ out of him with the same cowardly, irrational piety shown by those Puritan zealots of an earlier New England. …

I believe that due process will eventually clear Jack’s name, that he will be granted his hard-earned diploma, and that he will move on to share his considerable gifts with the world. But I’m not sure how he will ever be compensated for the emptiness and infinite heartache of being torn from his teammates during their once-in-a-lifetime quest.

If justice triumphs, I hope the Yale administration is pilloried in the press and their immense endowment takes a sizable hit. It would only be fair since they burned Jack Montague’s basketball dreams at the stake!

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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2016-03-23 07:02