The Naval Academy has suspended a Navy football player from graduation and commission, as NCIS investigates allegations that three football players serially raped a female midshipmen. During an April 12th, 2012 party at an off-campus "football house," the victim blacked out drunk, and woke up with bruises on her body. Even though she had very brief glimpses of consciousness, she did not know of the sexual assault until Facebook posts surfaced and one of the football players admitted it to her (he later denied telling her this). The victim was afraid to cooperate with the investigation, suffering intimidation from football players who told her not to tell and stared at her in the dining hall. To make things worse, she was punished for underage drinking despite a promise from an academy lawyer she would not be; the football players were allowed to play that season, and she was forced to attend every game by academy rules. The victim stood up when she learned the case would've been closed.
She's now complying completely with NCIS, and now has an attorney, who released a statement saying her client, "was ostracized and retaliated against by the football players and the Naval Academy community."
Read more at the New York Times.
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