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More Details Emerge on Wake Forest Basketball Program Rape Allegations

Posted May 19, 2011 3:32pm by
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Margaret Hurt, a former student at Wake Forest University, was on The Today Show this morning to discuss her sexual assault allegations against two former university basketball players, which she claims the university swept under the rug “because that was a way that they got their money.”

The interview was part of a larger segment on college campuses and sexual assault, but the only thing people will be talking about are Hurt’s allegations. According to a report filed with Miami police in 2009, she accused guard Gary Clark of sexually assaulting her in a hotel bathroom after an NCAA tournament game while teammate Jeff Teague waited outside. (Teague now plays for the Atlanta Hawks).

What people should be focusing on, however, is the school’s and the police’s response to Hurt’s situation. Obviously, the pageviews are generated by an NBA player being involved in this situation.

There really isn’t any recourse that Hurt has in her situation. She did everything right, including reporting it to the police and trusting that the school would look out for her best interests. The real takeaway from this story is that society and universities need to act better in how they deal with sexual assault victims and allegations. Obviously, no one wants another Duke lacrosse scandal, but false accusations shouldn’t whiplash authorities in the other direction to do nothing, or create a system where sexual assault victims don’t feel comfortable coming forward.

“Laura Adams, an assistant state attorney in Miami, said in the report that she recommended no criminal charges be filed because the allegations were one-on-one in nature, there was a delay in reporting the incident to authorities, the players denied the allegations, there was a lack of evidence and there were no corroborating witnesses. The case was ruled closed,” reports ESPN.

That’s pretty much every sexual assault case, unless the victim is able to make it to a hospital in time to generate an evidence kit.

The deck is stacked against victims of sexual assault from the beginning. It’s stacked even more so when the alleged perpetrators are star athletes at the university.

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  • Anon

    Wow. NBA player could get some jail time for false imprisonment. Nice.

  • http://Website gso-chris

    This article continues the “hit-job” nature of the Today show piece. The woman in the case waited weeks before reporting the crime. You say “false accusations shouldn’t whiplash authorities in the other direction to do nothing,” inferring that the school brushed the matter under the rug. In fact, the WFU campus police investigated, they referred to the matter to Miami PD, which also investigated. Even though MPD refused to prosecute (understandable), the students were sent through the university judicial proceedings, where they were found not guilty. Wake Forest has extensive education and counseling resources for students, so they can avoid, or properly handle, such an unfortunate event. The girl claimed that school wasn’t there for her, but I’m not sure what else the school could have done, given the situation.

  • Terry

    Notice how the story never mentions any physical evidence of either of these women being “raped.” If raped, why not go to a hospital to have a rape kit put together?

    Heck, if the one girl was forced to give fellatio, a rape kit would have at least shown the presences of male DNA. Why was this evidence never taken?

    With as much rape propaganda put out by universities these days, I have a very hard time believing that either of these girls were too ignorant to get a rape kit.

  • Darrel

    This needs to be said, college boys do not respect girls. Girls are objects. Any girls that go to late night parties, unfortunately, need to protect themselves to prevent these incidents. Evidence is always hard to gather if it is a case like the Wake Forest girl, her word against theirs with no witnesses. When it comes down to it, use better judgment. Meeting guys for the first time in a hotel room…bad idea. Just because you’re faniliar with them because they play basketball does not mean you should put complete trust in them. Dumb move.

  • http://Website Stephanie

    I think both Wake Forest parties showed poor judgment — following two horny jocks to their hotel room at 3:00 am?? Come on.

  • Survivor

    “Heck, if the one girl was forced to give fellatio, a rape kit would have at least shown the presences of male DNA. Why was this evidence never taken?”
    —–

    So you think they are gonna walk around for hours with the monkey’s sperm in their mouths? But following the two monkeys to their rooms for “a party” at 3:30 a.m. will give them a lot of room for walking away from the rape, and they have. She must think real life is like TV, where the monkeys would’ve been wonderful fellows, with lots of cokes and chips and board games at their “party.”

  • Darrel

    Reading the police report, they asked her about performing oral sex. She likely wanted to blow Teague and instead Clark got head because she was afraid. I don’t feel sorry for her at all. She’s just plain stupid.

    Here’s the incident report:

    http://www2.journalnow.com/mgmedia/file/163/w051811_gary-clark-incident-report/

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