AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A new federal lawsuit against Baylor University alleges football players routinely recorded gang rapes and staged dog fights during hazing parties in a program that fostered sexual violence.
A former Baylor volleyball player, identified as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, alleges she was gang raped by four or more players after being taken from a party where she may have been drugged in 2012. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, alleges the players later burglarized her apartment and harassed her and her family until she left school the next year.
The woman said she told her mother, who gave an assistant football coach a list of players’ names, but never heard back. The woman said she later told her head coach, who brought the matter to football coach Art Briles and athletic director Ian McCaw.
Her account lines up with previous legal filings by Baylor’s Board of Regents that allege Briles, when showed a list of names of players allegedly involved in the woman’s case, replied: “Those are some bad dudes. Why was she around those guys?” and said the woman should go to the police.
The woman said she didn’t tell police about the sex assaults because she believed police would protect the football players, her lawyer told The Associated Press on Wednesday. She told police about football players breaking into her apartment – and police responded by getting her items back, without filing charges, according to the lawsuit.