Navy Football Players Facing Rape Charges

The Naval Academy Superintendent has decided to send the case of sexual assault by three football players to an Article 32 hearing (the military equivalent of a preliminary hearing). Last month, the New York Times reported on a female midshipmen who told NCIS three football players had sex with her against her will while unconscious at a party. The victim then became afraid to cooperate, suffering intimidation from football players who told her not to tell and stared at her in the dining hall. She was later punished for underage drinking while the football players were allowed to play that season, and she was forced to attend every game. She decided to comply with NCIS when she discovered the case would be dropped, and she hired an attorney who released a statement saying she “was ostracized and retaliated against by the football players and the Naval Academy community.”

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