Baylor acknowledged its failures in addressing sexual violence committed by its athletes, but the NCAA system is set up to minimize consequences for those failures, writes Jessica Luther, co-author of “Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back”
On Wednesday, the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions announced it was not punishing Baylor University for failing “to report allegations of and address sexual and interpersonal violence committed on its campus” even though the school “admitted to moral and ethical failings in its handling of sexual violence.”
Baylor hired the law firm Pepper Hamilton, which announced its findings in 2016. Specific failings in the athletic department and the football program were found, “including a failure to identify and respond to a pattern of sexual violence by a football player, to take action in response to reports of a sexual assault by multiple football players, and to take action in response to a report of dating violence.
Most people are harmed by people they know, so it makes sense that in so many of these cases that I have investigated, the people reporting harm at the hands of athletes are other athletes. At Baylor, that included a soccer player, a volleyball player and multiple equestrian athletes. At LSU, it was multiple tennis players and two people who worked in football recruitment.
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