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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
WOW. Mizzery getting shredded by ESPN:
Victims Of Inaction
An Outside the Lines investigation reveals how multiple women became victims of violence by former Missouri tailback Derrick Washington.
Tags: NCF, Missouri Tigers
Updated: August 21, 2014,
Teresa Braeckel, center, followed in father Joe's footsteps by attending Missouri.
Just six weeks later, another woman would accuse Washington of sexually assaulting her. She said she was asleep in her bed when Washington came in and put his finger in her vagina. Teresa Braeckel reported the incident to police nearly immediately, and police opened an investigation.
While police were investigating, Washington was named one of four captains of the football team and sent to Dallas to represent the school at Big 12 media days. In September 2011, a jury convicted him of sexually assaulting Braeckel, and a judge sentenced him to five years in prison.
http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/...title-ix-cases |
It's a bad look for Mike Alden and his leadership. I know R. Bowen Loftin's patience for this type of information has already worn thin. And yes, this is something that happened in the past, before the changes Loftin and Tim Wolfe, the system president, put into place across the entire UM system.
But considering that Alden tries to sell his department as being squeaky clean (because let's be honest, his department has a lot of good/very good programs but doesn't have a lot of EXCELLENCE in programs) and his initial interviews with Loftin surely highlighted those types of things (compliance, graduation rates, grades)...
Alden has got to be on the hot seat. I'm sure Loftin didn't enjoy his first 8-9 months on the job featuring Mizzou athletes in the news around a dozen times for various, serious behavioral issues.
Loftin spoke yesterday and said an internal investigation - that included speaking with the soccer player who was reportedly threatened with a yanked scholarship if she filed assault charges against Washington - refuted the allegations surrounding the incident with the soccer player (who is long graduated and gone and has little incentive to protect the AD at this point). But the rest of the new allegations are still highly troubling.