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The family of an Alabama honors student who was, “mistreated by Tuscaloosa police, the university, and DCH Regional Medical Center” before committing suicide, will be suing the University of Alabama.

Student who was an alleged rape victim hung herself

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Megan Rondini, a 3.8 GPA student who had received a coveted spot in a special MBA program for high achievers in STEM fields, hanged herself in February 2016 after allegedly being raped by “one of the wealthiest men in Tuscaloosa,”

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“Megan couldn’t remember how she ended up in Sweet T’s white Mercedes on the way to his ornate mansion, decorated with his choicest hunting conquests, from massive-tusked elephant and wide-mouthed hippo heads to taxidermied lions and leopards,” reported Buzzfeed. “Sweet T” was an alias of T.J. Bunn, Jr. of the ST Bunn Construction family, who claim to have paved every street in Tuscaloosa.

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“Bunn has sandy brown hair, a boyish face, and a preppy wardrobe: The night he picked Megan up, he was wearing khakis and brown alligator shoes.

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Records reveal Bunn sued the director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety after his driving privileges were taken away, claiming he would ‘suffer irreparable harm’ if his license was suspended because he would be ‘unable to drive to work and will lose his job’ at the family business. Naturally, Bunn got his license back.

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Buzzfeed also iscovered that in Tuscaloosa, only 10 cases out of 98 sexual assault reports in 2016 were heard by a grand jury, and 12 out of 124 from 2015.

Tuscaloosa is the trillhog of the SEC

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University of Alabama student Megan Rondini, 20, accused TJ Bunn, 34, of raping her in July 2015 after a night of drinking
Bunn, of the ST Bunn Construction Company, is the son of an influential Tuscaloosa family
Under Alabama's rape law, victims must prove they 'earnestly' resisted their attackers, and investigators didn't believe Megan had
A University of Alabama therapist told Megan that she had to recuse herself from the case because she knew the Bunn family
Megan ended up transferring to Southern Methodist University in Texas for the spring semester but killed herself on February 26

video of police interviewing Sweet T and apologizing for bringing him in for questioning

The connection to the football team for nervous Bama fans

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He’s also listed on rosters for the secretive “President’s Cabinet” at UA, an “invitation-only” alumni group that advises the president of the university. ST Bunn Construction says it helped build Tuscaloosa’s Crimson Tide practice field, and the brothers belong to the booster foundation that paid for renowned UA football coach Nick Saban’s $3.1 million home. Flight records show the Bunn's private jet often touched down near Crimson Tide away games last fall.

Lawsuit against UofA officially filed

UPDATE 7/6/17 Collusion?

Tuscaloosa Sheriff Ron Abernathy directed his criminal investigators to “script” Megan Rondini’s rape case. In law enforcement jargon, Abernathy’s order to “script” the case meant that investigators Adam Jones and Josh Hastings should only do bare minimum work on this case and nothing more.

This is how and why Megan’s allegations of rape against T.J. “Sweet T” Bunn, Jr., got downgraded from a full blown rape investigation to a mere “special inquiry” report that was parked in the Department’s files.

Jones and Hastings are experienced criminal investigators. Yet, they failed to: (a) send Megan Rondini’s rape kit and urine sample to a forensic lab for testing; (b) take extensive interview notes on the details of Megan’s rape allegations; (c) interview Megan’s friends who were with her at Innisfree Irish Pub; (d) question Sweet T in detail about his interaction with Megan, from the time they saw each other at the Pub to the time she left his house; (e) investigate Sweet T for personal drug use, or his possible drugging of Megan on the night in question; (f) investigate Sweet for prior sexual assault allegations lodged and reported by other women; and (g) follow a litany of established protocols for fully and properly investigating allegations of rape.

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Megan was unaware that her case was the second time Ron Abernathy had interceded on Sweet T’s behalf in an alleged sexual assault case. The first instance occurred around 2009 or 2010 after Sweet T was named as a suspect in an alleged sexual assault that happened at his camp house on Fosters Loop Road in Tuscaloosa County. Abernathy, who was then the chief deputy sheriff, advised Sheriff Edmund “Ted” Sexton against taking criminal action in the case because it would “stir things up” with Terry Jackson Bunn, Sr., who is Sweet T’s well-known, politically connected, and wealthy father.

Sheriff Sexton politely ignored Abernathy’s unsolicited advice and referred the sexual assault case to the Alabama Bureau of Investigation for an appropriate criminal investigation. The disposition of this case is unknown.

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Abernathy’s wife Leslie is the Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at the University. Her job at UA is to keep corporate donors like the Bunn family businesses happy and to bring home the big corporate dollars.

In Tuscaloosa, Campaign Money Talks

According to campaign finance reports, Abernathy raised $135,195 in campaign contributions, including $4,000 from Pride PAC II on October 6, 2014 and $4,200 from T-Town PAC II on October 24, 2014.

Campaign finance records show that ST Bunn Construction Company contributed $5,000 to Pride PAC II on November 11, 2013 and another $5,000 on October 24, 2014. The company contributed $5,000 to T-Town PAC II on November 11, 2013, $5,000 on July 21, 2014, and $5,000 on October 24, 2014.

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Sweet T AKA The Bubble Bath Bandit wants the charges dropped

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Thirty-one year old Laurie Beth Kesterson did not know Megan personally but the Tuscaloosa native started the Justice For Megan Facebook group because, she said, 'It's time to stand up and put a stop to this. Everybody has heard the rumors but nobody will do anything to investigate it.

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'This has happened before.'

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Laurie Beth, herself a former student at UA, also reported being raped while there. Her experience was similar to Megan's - her 'assailant' was the son of a politically connected family and her drug test was never submitted for forensic testing. Her case files are now with the Rondini family's attorney in the hope that they can lend some weight to the case.

This post was edited on 9/28/17 at 11:14 am

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