Keyser Soze said:
Sorry worded that poorly. Should have said everyone who had a duty to report that knew.
Everyone on that list had a first hand account from the victim or victim's coach.
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Barnes was given misinformation from McCraw about reporting to JA.
Hill seems the best definition of collateral damage as he was simply spoke to Barnes briefly about this when Barnes was on his way to tell McCaw & Briles.
PH concluded Briles definitely knew of the obligation to report to JA as there was other case(s) of alleged SA being handled by them.
Sorry, but this is just weak as can be on so many levels.
1. Other people knew firsthand from her, including some well placed Baylor employees. They didn't know where/how to report. They were not fired as part of this mess. They shouldn't have been, as there really wasn't any good guidance out there.
2. A "first hand account from the victim
or the victim's coach"? How is an account from the victim's coach first hand? Did we really train people that certain second hand information was really first hand information and that they should then report the first hand second hand information? What sources turn second hand information into first hand information? Who had the first hand first hand information, and who had the second hand first hand information? And where was all of this explained to them?
3. PH cannot honestly conclude from the fact that Briles knew JA handled sexual assault obligations that Briles also knew he had an obligation to report dated and secondhand information. Or first hand second hand information, whatever that is.
4. This all ignores the fact that the coaching staff alleges to have had a good faith belief that JA had gotten a report. There's no reason to disbelieve that, unless you're just inclined to call people liars.
This whole thing does not hold together in a remotely compelling way. It requires too large of a weird conspiracy of silence from too many good people, and it requires an assumed explanation of rules and procedures that we all realistically know had not happened. I really hope you and your BOR buddies had something better. Truly, I do.