USC football kicker expelled after Title IX case - victim says he is innocent

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The University of Southern California football player whose field goal clinched the school’s Rose Bowl win in January was booted from the school weeks later for an alleged assault against his girlfriend that she insists never happened.

This week his 22-year-old girlfriend, Zoe Katz, publicly blasted USC for Matt Boermeester’s expulsion and the Title IX investigation of the “student-conduct issue” that led to the action. She has even hired an attorney, Kerry L. Steigerwalt, to clear her boyfriend’s name.

Katz was then called in to a Title IX investigation, in which she explained that the two were playing around.

“When I told the truth about Matt, in repeated interrogations, I was stereotyped and was told I must be a ‘battered’ woman

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