Keyser Soze said:
I agree. You were mistaken about that same sworn statement in regards to Barnes reporting things to JA some time ago.
Here is a statement about that sworn statement found on Baylor.edu
- In a voluntary statement on June 2, 2016 and a sworn affidavit on June 24, 2016, the victim's head coach again detailed his actions after learning of the gang rape allegation. His account was consistent with the account he provided to Baylor in the spring of 2016. In neither of the statements, nor in his interview, did the head coach state that he reported the alleged assault to Judicial Affairs. To the contrary, he expressed his great disappointment and frustration that he could not do more to help the student-athlete despite bringing the report to the attention of his sports administrator, the head football coach, and the Athletic Director.
So victim, regents, Baylor, PH, all liars?
That statement, by Baylor, takes the PH assumption of a "gang rape allegation" that was never alleged by the "victim." It is a phantom. Barnes didn't call it that, and his player didn't call it that when she was explaining to him why she wanted to transfer. And despite the constant "report mania" that you and Brooks trumpet, it sure wasn't hard for PH investigators to find this case, long after the "victim", all of those "implicated," the original "report" recipient were all gone from the campus and it was never reported to anyone. Garbage. Everybody knew of it. Who led the investigators to this incident? It must have been Art Briles, Ian McCaw, Ken Starr and Tom Hill, because Heaven knows they were the only ones left on campus who knew about it and, you say, knew through their extensive training that they had an obligation to report it.
If everyone was so trained over Title IX, why in the name of Judge Robert Emmett Bledsoe, didn't that JA officer order Barnes to get his tail over to the office and file a report?You are mislabeling statements that I made previously about reporting to JA. There is a difference between Barnes discussing the situation with JA (which you admit that he did, based upon a snippet in a hatchet book) and filing a formal report. I NEVER said he did the latter, so characterizing my previous statements as "mistaken" goes completely contrary to your own postings on the matter. The man was desperate to try and keep his player at Baylor, and once he was told by JA that nothing could be done, he wasn't about to waste his time filing worthless reports. He was busy talking to anybody and everybody to come up with something to convince her to stay. None of those people seemed to be able to remember that rigorous training enough to walk over to JA and file a report either.
The player was embarrassed by the incident and the remaining evidence of it, and wanted a fresh start somewhere else. Barnes should have understood enough to simply let her go, but he did what might have been the right thing to do if she told him about it 14 months earlier. It was PH that took advantage of the incident to redefine it, and the BOR that took advantage of it to give it a shady number.
Brooks can discount motivation, but that is what fuels human activity. The volleyball player was motivated by abashment to transfer; Barnes was motivated by concern and devotion to his player to try and keep her at Baylor; the Judicial Affairs officer was motivated by policies of the university and ignorance of mandatory reporting obligations. There was nothing to motivate Briles and Hill to not report other than not knowing they had any obligation to do so. Briles wasn't going to lose a player over it, they were all already gone or were never going to play another game anyway. Hill was so far removed as to be an usher with his back to the stage.