Navy QB Charged With Rape

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

Naval Academy Charges Quarterback With Rape
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The quarterback of Navy's 2005 football squad, Lamar Owens, has been charged with raping a female midshipman in her dormitory room, the academy announced Wednesday.

"These charges are accusations, and Midshipman Owens is presumed innocent until proven otherwise," academy spokesman Cmdr. Rod Gibbons said.

Since the alleged attack last month occurred on academy grounds, Owens was charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the investigation is being handled by the Naval Criminal Investigation Service, Gibbons said.

The academy did not release the name of the woman. Gibbons said the academy was offering her support and counseling.

Owens, a 22-year-old senior from Savannah, Ga., would not be available to comment, Gibbons said.

"He remains assigned to the Naval Academy and will continue to attend classes, performing other duties normally assigned to midshipmen pending results of the investigation," Gibbons said. He said the academy took steps to prevent contact between Owens and the woman.

An Article 32 hearing, similar to a civilian grand jury inquiry, will be held to determine if there is sufficient evidence to go ahead with the case, he said.

The military academies have been under scrutiny since 2003, when women at the Air Force Academy in Colorado began coming forward with accusations that they had been sexually assaulted by fellow cadets over the previous decade and were ignored or ostracized by commanders when they spoke out.

A Pentagon task force found that hostile attitudes and inappropriate treatment of women also persisted at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and at the Naval Academy.

Earlier this month, a senior at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., was charged with sexually assaulting six female cadets in the campus barracks and other sites. Webster M. Smith, 22, a linebacker on the academy's football team, was charged under military law with rape, assault, indecent assault and sodomy, school officials said. Smith insists he is innocent, his lawyer has said.

Owens guided Navy's football team to an 8-4 season record that included victories over Air Force and Army and a victory in the Poinsettia Bowl over Colorado State.

The academy's 2006 starting quarterback will be chosen during spring practice, which starts March 27, said Scott Strasemeier, head of the Navy's sports information office.

THIS GUY NEEDS TO HIRE THE TEXAS LONGHORNS LAW FIRM!

[LonghornFan68]

sour grapes

[mrydel]

sour grapes

Roll with the punches 68, half of you is in enemy territory.

[stangerredblue]

I think I will lurk on the longhorn fan site, and get pissed if anyone say's anything negative about another team!

[LonghornFan68]

I think I will lurk on the longhorn fan site, and get pissed if anyone say's anything negative about another team!

I wouldn't get pissed if he said something that was true. IPP typically spews anti-Texas venom that reeks of envy.

And I'm not a lurker, I have more posts than you.

[gostangs]

I have nothing against the Horns actually, but even their most ardent fan has to almost laugh at the number of times their criminals, .....uh, I mean student athletes, get off the hook for whatever drug induced mahem they cause.

And yes i would happily put up with that for a national championship. But student athletes they ain't .

[LonghornFan68]

I have nothing against the Horns actually, but even their most ardent fan has to almost laugh at the number of times their criminals, .....uh, I mean student athletes, get off the hook for whatever drug induced mahem they cause.

And yes i would happily put up with that for a national championship. But student athletes they ain't .

Yeah, considering this senior class had the highest graduation rate in UT history, you're aboslutely right.

[PK]

...and that graduation rate was...???

[BrianTinBigD]

Great! 15 more PE teachers looking for work! I seriously doubt that more than half the class graduated on time and more than likely those that did graduate were getting degrees in the College of Education and College of Communications.

[LonghornFan68]

I love all of the SMU education snobbery I see around here. UT is consistently ranked ahead of SMU in overall academics and has several Top 10 programs, many of which are ranked ahead of SMU's. That's even factoring in UT's massive Liberal Arts community.

SMU is a great school and consistently puts out stellar graduates into the workplace, but UT is by no means a slouch school. I hate to break the news to you.

[ponyplayer]

geezzz........get off of UT............they win a national championship and you have even more criticism for them........what would we dream to even be in consideration for a bowl bid...............and with the teacher shortage in this country, yes, 15 more teachers and coaches is good.....no matter where they come from or if they teach PE or slit the stomach of some poor little froggie in bio..................

[stangerredblue]

I have an idea!!! Anyone that wants to talk about ut.......go to the ut website!!! STOP SELLING THE F...ING UT CRAP ON THE SMU FAN SITE!!!!

[abezontar]

It would probably be better if the could teach something in addition to PE considering a lot of schools are having to cut funding for full time PE programs, and there is always a shortage of math and science teachers.

[LonghornFan68]

I have an idea!!! Anyone that wants to talk about ut.......go to the ut website!!! STOP SELLING THE F...ING UT CRAP ON THE SMU FAN SITE!!!!

Hahahahahahahaha. Pure comedy.

[PK]

I have an idea!!! Anyone that wants to talk about ut.......go to the ut website!!! STOP SELLING THE F...ING UT CRAP ON THE SMU FAN SITE!!!!

Hahahahahahahaha. Pure comedy.

And the graduation rate (highest in UT history) was what percentage???? Answer my question please. 40%....50%...60%....80%...??????