Vols Players Suspected of Rape

Mystical

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Wow. Seeing a lot of this going on the last 2 years. You would think with the stature of these guys it would be easy to find willing ladies. The best thing these athletes can do for themselves is get married or at the least have a steady girlfriend on campus.
 

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Kind of hard for me to follow the logic...the girl who was supposed to have been raped decided to not press charges, and left the state. That seems to suggest she wasn't actually raped, although I guess she could have been, and decided to just let it go.

It's awful when a guy forces himself on a girl and rapes her. It's also awful when a jock chaser gets a little drunk and regrets how far she went and claims rape. Who knows which is which in this deal?
 

wsims74

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Wow. Seeing a lot of this going on the last 2 years. You would think with the stature of these guys it would be easy to find willing ladies. The best thing these athletes can do for themselves is get married or at the least have a steady girlfriend on campus.
I think that is part of the problem, not used to hearing the word no
 

Jon

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Kind of hard for me to follow the logic...the girl who was supposed to have been raped decided to not press charges, and left the state. That seems to suggest she wasn't actually raped, although I guess she could have been, and decided to just let it go.

It's awful when a guy forces himself on a girl and rapes her. It's also awful when a jock chaser gets a little drunk and regrets how far she went and claims rape. Who knows which is which in this deal?
or she was extremely distraught and did not want to go through the violation that is a rape investigation, especially against a man that is arguably one of the biggest star players in Knoxville so she ran home. Trying to understand logic in a sexual assault victim is a pointless exercise.
 

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Kind of hard for me to follow the logic...the girl who was supposed to have been raped decided to not press charges, and left the state...
The girl who left the state was visiting the other girl who was a student at UT. She went home to Florida where she was from. It's not like she was a student there and just got the heck out of Dodge.
 

miggy402

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or she was extremely distraught and did not want to go through the violation that is a rape investigation, especially against a man that is arguably one of the biggest star players in Knoxville so she ran home. Trying to understand logic in a sexual assault victim is a pointless exercise.


I agree. With the recent track record of the events, who would feel confident that the violators would be brought to justice? After Jameis Winston, the type of person who would do this type of thing probably feels emboldened, like its easier to get away with.
 

B1GTide

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or she was extremely distraught and did not want to go through the violation that is a rape investigation, especially against a man that is arguably one of the biggest star players in Knoxville so she ran home. Trying to understand logic in a sexual assault victim is a pointless exercise.
Also, she is from Florida. After what she has seen happening at FSU, I can't blame her for not wanting to subject herself to the public attacks that come along with this sort of thing.
 

GreatDanish

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Wow. Seeing a lot of this going on the last 2 years. You would think with the stature of these guys it would be easy to find willing ladies. The best thing these athletes can do for themselves is get married or at the least have a steady girlfriend on campus.
Or, and I know this sounds ridiculous, they could avoid doing it with people they just met.
 

Maudiemae

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The girl who left the state was visiting the other girl who was a student at UT. She went home to Florida where she was from. It's not like she was a student there and just got the heck out of Dodge.
Unfortunately, I know women who have been raped. It messes up your head very badly. You will never be the same. Compulsion to rape can be strongly related to things other than sex. A lot of girls just can't tolerate the idea of what they will need to endure if they choose to press charges. It is bound to be a nightmare even when their assailant is not considered an "important person", so to speak. If it's a football player, especially at a school where football is a big deal, the nightmare is going to be especially horrific and I fully understand why someone would decide not to go through with it.
 

Jon

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Unfortunately, I know women who have been raped. It messes up your head very badly. You will never be the same. Compulsion to rape can be strongly related to things other than sex. A lot of girls just can't tolerate the idea of what they will need to endure if they choose to press charges. It is bound to be a nightmare even when their assailant is not considered an "important person", so to speak. If it's a football player, especially at a school where football is a big deal, the nightmare is going to be especially horrific and I fully understand why someone would decide not to go through with it.
Statistically we all do, whether you are aware or not
 

im4uainva

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First of all, I am NOT saying the results could be the same here...that being said...here in Charlottesville, recently, a man was arrested and charged with the murder of two young ladies a few years apart. He has also recently been charged with sexual assault which happened a few years ago by a victim in Northern Virginia. The thing about it, in years past he was accused of sexual assault in two other cases. In both of those cases the victims declined to press charges...one of which caused this man to lose his football scholarship at Liberty University in Lynchburg in the early 2000's. I pause to think if those two murder victims might be alive today if the earlier victims had decided to press charges to begin with. I'm not saying the victims did anything wrong not to press charges, they have been through enough just being victimized. This is the danger in deciding whether to press charges against sexual predators and face those consequences, or decline and have other people possibly face even greater consequences. Sexual predators should be identified and dealt as soon as that kind of behavior is exhibited. IMO.

I will now return to my self-imposed exile. I just had to comment on this.

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gtgilbert

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The girl who left the state was visiting the other girl who was a student at UT. She went home to Florida where she was from. It's not like she was a student there and just got the heck out of Dodge.
Yep, and since the call came in at 3am, and the girls went straight to hospital, I'd lean way more toward the angle that something bad happened than a jock chaser having regrets in the morning.
 

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The other suspect is sophomore db, Michael Williams. There was a search warrant issued of the apartment where the alleged rape occurred. If it happened there should be evidence from the search and the hospital visit.

If it were just Johnson involved I'd be more likely to think it was a set up, but with two women and two suspects involved, I don't know.

I hope it's a farce. If it's not, I hope the Vols have the gumption to make an example of these guys. We'll see.
 

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Kind of hard for me to follow the logic...the girl who was supposed to have been raped decided to not press charges, and left the state. That seems to suggest she wasn't actually raped, although I guess she could have been, and decided to just let it go.

It's awful when a guy forces himself on a girl and rapes her. It's also awful when a jock chaser gets a little drunk and regrets how far she went and claims rape. Who knows which is which in this deal?
Unfortunately that happens all too often. Seems there are more and more cases of a willing girl changing her mind after the fact.
 

mdb-tpet

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Unfortunately that happens all too often. Seems there are more and more cases of a willing girl changing her mind after the fact.
I'm sure there's every cause and reason under the sun. I've heard from more than one woman that they were having fun until things went too far, and they had no ability to stop the men.
 

Jon

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Unfortunately that happens all too often. Seems there are more and more cases of a willing girl changing her mind after the fact.
actually its rather rare, ranging from 1.5% of reported cases to around 8% of cases, still far too high, depending on who you chose to believe. Unfortunately the rare "she lied" like the Duke lacrosse case, tends to sour everyone into thinking that many are lies. This of course causes many women to be reluctant to come forward and the feedback loop continues


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape
 

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