Baylor Legal Woes

[Topper]

This being the middle of the season some may have overlooked that Baylor settled 15 cases of Title IX variety involving sexual assault of "Jane Does" last month. There seems to be at least one more case with jury selection going on at this moment. Are there others? It involves a named plaintiff who says that the school was negligent in preventing her football playing boyfriend from physically assaulting her. This may be a weaker case than the Jane Does, but I haven't seen much comment about any of these cases lately. Quiet payoffs and non-disclosure agreements. The 15 Title IX cases were settled after the firm Baylor hired to investigate found that the university engaged in wrongdoing.

[peruna81]

Heard two more pending...through a "friend of a friend" these two refused settlement and want to go to court.
BU has tried really hard to make this go away...

[Hoofprint]

Here's hoping Baylor gets crushed in the courtroom as well as on the field.

[mtrout]

We all know McLane Stadium is the house that rape built.

[Dukie]

We all know McLane Stadium is the toilet seat that rape built.

FIFY

[PlanoStang]

[BUS]

Please help with what FIFTY means.

[Dukie]

Please help with what FIFTY means.

"Fixed it for you." (I corrected the description of that stadium.)

[ponyte]

One might need a little more detail as to the allegations. We are talking Baylor. For all we know the Jane Does had to endure dancing. That's a big no-no for them Baptist.

[BUS]

They voted on the dancing thing, and it is now allowed.

OMG.

[EastStang]

The old joke is that's why Baptists won't have sex standing up. People might think they are dancing. But, yes dancing is now allowed. I even saw an interpretative dance troup perform at a Southern Baptist Convention.

[Dukie]

One might need a little more detail as to the allegations. We are talking Baylor. For all we know the Jane Does had to endure dancing. That's a big no-no for them Baptist.

I guess this is an attempt at humor, but man is that not appropriate given what happened.

No, those Baylor women did not have to "endure dancing." They were raped, and their university systematically and for years ignored them and/or tried to use rules against drinking and premarital sex to try to shame them into silence.

[Topper]

I lurked around a couple of Baylor FB pages to see what their faithful are saying. As expected many, including female Baylor grads, are blaming the women involved and calling the whole thing "hogwash" and a "witch hunt" against Ken Starr. The admittedly small sample of comments that I reviewed did not acknowledge that the out of state law firm hired by Baylor to investigate the situation condemned the leadership of the university and supported the women's claims. The Baylor fans also have a widespread belief that the confidential settlement arrangement with the 15 "Jane Does" was for only nominal money and that Baylor graciously wanted the woment to "save face."

[PlanoStang]

If you bring Ken Starr into this, you just blew your creditablity.

Probably a weak case against the person in the first post
if she had been dating him a few time. Baylor can’t protect everybody. I don’t remember submitting to a criminal background check in the early 70s to get into SMU.

[Topper]

If you bring Ken Starr into this, you just blew your creditablity.

Probably a weak case against the person in the first post
if she had been dating him a few time. Baylor can’t protect everybody. I don’t remember submitting to a criminal background check in the early 70s to get into SMU.

I don't know if Baylor has tried to settle the case in trial at the moment. It is not a sexual assault case. Rather the plaintiff claims a theory of negligence. According to the Baylor people she had been in an ongoing relationship with the player.