re: Could The University of Alabama be the next Baylor. UPDATE:Another victim has come forward

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What? I dont understand the point you are trying to make here. Are you a litigator?

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Yes, it's painfully obvious to everyone you don't get it

The booster does not play football for Bama either.

And the story needs to be out there for obvious reasons. But it's pathetic for LSU fans to compare this to the Baylor scandal in hopes that it brings down Bama. It just stinks of insecurity on their part.

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It just stinks of insecurity on their part.

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Insecurity? The only reason Bama fans are posting in this thread is because they fear it makes UofA look bad.

Oh but here is a more in dept piece on the case

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On July 1, 2015, she went to the Innisfree Irish Pub for trivia night with a group of sorority sisters. She saw Bunn at the bar, as she often did — ST Bunn Construction is across the street — but they didn’t talk. She later told investigators they had spoken only once, when he introduced himself as Sweet T to her and a friend the previous November. Afterward, they had wondered aloud about the well-dressed guy who offered them beers. A stranger, overhearing, leaned over and told them: “He’s one of the wealthiest men in Tuscaloosa.”

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Megan, who stood 5-foot-6 and around 130 pounds, had about five cups of beer on July 1, she would later tell investigators — not enough, in her experience, to get that drunk. But somehow, she said, she blacked out, only coming to around midnight in Bunn’s brand-new Mercedes as he and his friend drove to Bunn’s home about 20 minutes away.

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Megan was intimidated by Bunn, so much so that she didn’t try to stop him as he drove toward his house, she told investigators, even though “he was drunk and driving and it was concerning me.”

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Bunn put his drunk friend to bed and told Megan to go to his room, she told investigators. She said she complied, sitting on a couch near the door, as far as possible from his bed with monogrammed “B” pillows. Bunn walked in and told her he wanted to have sex. That’s when Megan said she had to leave, while “trying to be really nice to him” because “I know he’s an influential person in Tuscaloosa.”

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“I said, I really need to go, I have friends that are waiting,” she told police when they first interviewed her at the hospital. “He didn’t really take that.” Eventually, Megan said, she “felt like just letting him have sex with me was the only way he would let me go.”

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Bunn brought her over to his bed and pulled her shorts to the side while she looked away from him, she told investigators. The incident report would later state that she “verbally informed Bunn that she did not want to have sex with him and that she needed to rejoin her friends at Innisfree,” but that he “ignored these statements and continued to engage in intercourse with her.” Afterward, Bunn passed out, and she felt she could leave safely, she said. But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t open his door. She started texting friends around 1 a.m., begging for help. “OMG,” she wrote to one, “I can’t get out of the room.”

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Megan told police that, in a panic, she climbed through Bunn’s second-story window, jumped onto a gate and then to the dark, unfamiliar street below. When she realized she didn’t have her keys, she started frantically searching for them, even climbing back into Bunn’s room and then out again. Next, she checked Bunn’s Mercedes, where she found his wallet and a pistol. She grabbed $3 in case she had to take a cab and the gun “for safety,” she told investigators. Megan didn’t know how to handle guns, she’d later explain, and she accidentally fired it before dropping the weapon to the ground. Finally, a friend picked her up. They arrived at Tuscaloosa’s DCH Regional Medical Center around 2:40 a.m.

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According to Tuscaloosa Homicide Department Capt. Gary Hood, as many as 40 to 50% of all reported sexual assaults in Tuscaloosa are labeled “special inquiry,” local law enforcement’s term for cases in which “the victim does not know what or if anything happened” or the investigators don’t think the complaint meets the criteria to be a criminal charge under state law. Hood said those cases are investigated just as seriously as sexual assaults, but the examples he gave were ambiguous. For instance, he said, “A female wakes up at a friend’s house after a night of drinks. She doesn’t know if she was sexually assaulted but she files a report just to make sure.”

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THATS THE frickING HOMICIDE CAPT

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Last November, Hood told the Tuscaloosa News that 27 UA students had reported sexual assaults in 2016, but only two arrests had been made. Widely accepted research has found that the rate of false rape claims is no higher than that of any other crime. But although Hood hoped “true victims of crimes” would come forward to the department, he said there were “a lot of reasons” a college student might lie about rape. “A lot of them are not doing well in school and hope that by doing this they can get some help from the university with their grades,” he said.

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HOLY frickING shite. Thats a cop prejudging crimes and stonewalling victims for the university

She was an UofA student
She was allegedly raped by a member of the Presidents Circle
It has been speculated that the alleged rapist is being protected because he donates a lot of money to bama athletics
The family is suing UofA

Agreed she was a student, how would that make the university responsible.. the crime happened off campus, she was picked up at an on campus bar, and he was not a student, nor employee of the university.

Yes the accused happened to be on the presidents council... that doesn't mean the university did anything wrong. He is an adviser, not someone they can punish and fire.

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It has been speculated

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That's a big keyword in all this, no facts

And even if he was protected because he donates money to bama.... it just as easily could have been because the good ole' boy police officers worship Bama athletics. It doesn't mean that the University pressured them do it.

The family named UA in the lawsuit because they have most money and are likely to just settle this case to avoid the high cost of litigation, and the PR troubles that a public trial would bring.

What would you want the University to do differently? The only thing they could possibly do is remove him from the Presidents council. That is the only power they have over him.

I'm not arguing that Bunn didnt break the law, just that it has nothing to do with UA.

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Dont deflect. LSU is not the one being sued for not helping a rape victim.

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They aren't really helping one by rewarding her alleged attacker, though, are they? I hope justice is done in all cases.

I've read up on the case but thanks for sharing info I've already read I guess.

It looks like I can lump you in the pathetic category with the other LSU fans hoping this turns into something it's not. Baylor had multiple rapes by multiple players that was covered up by multiple coaches. While this story is tragic it is no where near the same thing that happened at Baylor and the fact that you and some other LSU fans are hoping it does is disgustingly pathetic.

We're just hoping for justice. You minimize women's rights by claiming this is about football. You are about the most pathetic poster on here. The victim's family we're happy that their daughter went to Alabama originally. Do you think that they are doing this because they mad at the football team?

I dont leave at halftime