The University of Minnesota reached a $500,000 deal with one who said several football players sexually assaulted her in a Dinkytown apartment on September 2, 2016.
Josh Verges of Pioneer Press provided the main points of the former undergraduate student’s claims:
“The woman told the government that she was forced to have sex with a Gopher football player and a high school rookie in a team apartment after drinking glasses of vodka after the team’s first game of the season.
“Several other football players came temporarily to see or have sex with those who opposed their will,” he said.
Hennepin County Prosecutor Mike Freeman does not have to prosecute, offering this reasoning to five Eyewitness News:
The Hennepin County District Attorney’s Office reviewed a case investigated and filed through Minneapolis police opposite several Minnesota Gopher football players. Based on available evidence, the county attorney’s workplace refuses to bring charges. a moderate doubt that force was used or that the victim was physically powerless under the law of sexual intercourse. This workplace will have no further comment on the case. “
Minnesota, first, suspended 10 players indefinitely, however, the school’s Department of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action, nevertheless made a decision on “different degrees of discipline” for the organization in 2018, through Shames.
Five were suspended or expelled.
Per Verges, law firm Hutchinson Black and Cook represented The in the settlement. The Colorado law firm has already reached agreements with other schools where football players have been charged with sexual assault, adding Colorado, the state of Arizona and the state of Florida.