San Diego State Investigating Rape Allegations Against Football Players
San Diego State Investigating Rape Allegations Against Football Players: Nine months after a woman claimed that five football players sexually assaulted her, San Diego State University announced on Monday that it had opened an investigation into the allegations.
The woman, who is now 18 years old, has disclosed information about the incident that took place in October 2021, when she was a child. The incident occurred when she was a kid. The young woman stated that she was assaulted on October 16 while attending a party off campus, and that the assault took place in a bedroom.
“I am fully aware that I am not to blame. According to what she told CBS 8, “I know being a 17-year-old girl, virtually unconscious 90 percent of the time in a room with numerous people, bloodied, and going in and out of consciousness is not something that was consenting.”
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According to a report that was published in June by The Los Angeles Times, two athletes who were not present at the party sent messages through the school’s anonymous reporting system. These messages were reviewed by the executive associate athletic director and deputy Title IX coordinator at San Diego State University. A senior member of the team was identified by one of the athletes who participated.
According to data obtained by The Times, a student was quoted as saying, “Ninety-nine percent of the football players are aware of the five-person rape, therefore the remainder of the student-athletes are left wondering why nothing is being done.” The quote was based on information from the records. They went on to say that “Each and every individual in a position of authority here at SDSU, including [San Diego State President] Adela de la Torre, has to be informed of this.”
In its announcement on Monday, the university addressed the question of why it had not launched an investigation until now. It cited the fact that the San Diego Police Department had requested that the university not take any action, including launching an investigation and conducting interviews, regarding the reported sexual assault that occurred off campus in order to avoid compromising its own criminal investigation.
In a message that was sent out to the community of the institution on Monday, de la Torre stated that the San Diego Police Department had given the school the go-ahead one month ago to begin its own inquiry into the situation. According to de la Torre’s account, the organisation had first requested that the university “not do anything that could threaten or interfere with its criminal probe, including beginning our own investigation.”
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According to a statement that was given by San Diego State University to Sports Illustrated in June, the university had not received the confirmed name of the survivor, nor had it received the names of anyone who was considered a suspect by the SDPD. Additionally, the university stated that neither a survivor nor a witness had reported the off-campus incident to the university. The most recent communication that de la Torre has sent out to the community states that the school is now aware of the woman’s identify.
In addition, the institution developed a website that is accessible to the general public and features a timeline as well as frequently asked questions.
The woman also recently shared her thoughts with The Times, where she voiced her dissatisfaction with the manner in which the university handled to the situation.
She said, “Something like this stays with you for the rest of your life.” “And at this point, all I can really do is just hope that I can get some sort of justice somehow and feel like people are facing consequences for their actions because I feel like I’ve been facing the consequences for their actions,” she said. “And the only thing I can really do now is just hope that I can get some sort of justice somehow.”