The Vanderbilt Rape Case Is Horrific

Filed in National by on January 26, 2015

I’ve been following this case for months. If you aren’t familiar with it, here’s a recap:

1. Brandon Vandenburg and the victim were dating. They had spent the evening at a bar – also known as going on a date.

2. Vandenburg drove the extremely intoxicated (unconscious) woman back to his dorm.

3. The incident began in the dorm hallway and moved into a dorm room.

In opening statements, Thurman said they giggled, shot video and sent text messages while they sexually abused her in an assault that began in a hallway. He described in sometimes explicit language how one former player assaulted her with a water bottle while a teammate egged him on. The prosecutor said one of the players passed out condoms and assaulted her.

Thurman said one of the former players urinated on her and made a racial statement. Three of the ex-players are black and one is white. The victim is white.

4. “The Nashville Police only began investigating the incident when school officials reviewed dorm security footage after a vandalism report and instead saw her being dragged down a hallway.”

5. She (the victim) doesn’t remember anything. In fact, she defended him until she was shown the video evidence.

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  1. The guy who skated on this is the football coach, James Franklin. While he brought a winning program to Vandy, which had not been a football powerhouse in the loaded $EC, he did it by bringing in players who previously would never have been admitted.

    Since winning is all that matters in football, Franklin got out of town ahead of the posse and ended up at…Ped State. That’s right, the rape case was common knowledge in State College, PA, when Franklin was brought in. As you know, Penn State gave a suspected pedophile ( former coach John Sandusky) access to kids who he molested, and was sanctioned by the NCAA.

    ‘Mere’ rapes by players are clearly not grounds for questioning whether a coach is fit to lead a program if he wins and if he recruits:

    http://deadspin.com/james-franklin-claims-he-lied-about-seeing-vanderbilt-r-1643928752

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2014/04/29/vanderbilt-football-rape-case-james-franklin/8477451/

    College football is a cesspool at the highest levels. And football plays a key part in this story.

  2. pandora says:

    I was just reading up on this. Did you read the list of charges?

    Charges against Cory Batey:

    Count 1: Guilty of aggravated rape, anal penetration with fingers
    Count 2: Guilty of aggravated rape, vaginal penetration with fingers
    Count 3: Guilty of aggravated rape, mouth penetration with penis
    Count 4: Guilty of attempted aggravated rape, vaginal penetration with penis
    Count 5: Guilty of aggravated rape, criminal responsibility for anal penetration with water bottle by Brandon Banks
    Count 6: Guilty of aggravated sexual battery, contact with private areas
    Count 7: Guilty of aggravated sexual battery, slapping of buttocks

    Charges for Brandon Vandenburg:

    Count 1: Guilty of aggravated rape, criminal responsibility for Batey’s anal penetration with fingers
    Count 2: Guilty of aggravated rape, criminal responsibility for Batey’s vaginal penetration with fingers
    Count 3: Guilty of aggravated rape, criminal responsibility for Batey’s mouth penetration with penis
    Count 4: Guilty of attempted aggravated rape, criminal responsibility for Batey’s vaginal penetration with penis
    Count 5: Guilty of aggravated rape, criminal responsibility for anal penetration with water bottle by Banks
    Count 6: Guilty of aggravated sexual battery, criminal responsibility for contact with private areas
    Count 7: Guilty of aggravated sexual battery, slapping of buttocks
    Count 8: Guilty of tampering with evidence by destruction of condoms after rape
    Count 9: Guilty of unlawful photography, by sending images to other men

    Horrifying. And there’s two more men awaiting trial. I hope all of them go away for a long, long time. They are monsters.

    Reading what they did to her turns my stomach.

  3. j tisdiw says:

    All four perps need serious jail time. There acts are without conscience and alcohol did not make them do this, only made it easy. Vandenberg roommate, like so many others, should have faced charges as accessories during and after the fact. Every single individual, including the low-life in california, abdicated all morality. Justice would be well served if each and everyone received the sane treatment as was given to this victim. Their families produced monsters and these people carry moral, though not legal, responsibility.