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Fired coach Art Briles says Baylor using him as scapegoat
Source: ESPN
Fired coach Art Briles says Baylor using him as scapegoat
6:16 PM EDT
Paula Lavigne and Mark Schlabach
Former head coach Art Briles, in an emergency motion filed Thursday, is accusing Baylor University of unfairly blaming him and the football program for the school's overall "institutional failure" in addressing sexual assault.
The motion, part of the Title IX civil rights lawsuit filed in March by a sexual assault victim, says the university was keeping Briles in the dark about plans to settle the lawsuit, including not informing him of a meeting scheduled for Friday between Baylor officials and plaintiff Jasmin Hernandez and her attorney to possibly mediate and settle the case.
ESPN does not normally name victims of sexual assault, but Hernandez came out publicly with the filing of the lawsuit. In 2012, Hernandez, a former Baylor student, was raped by former football player Tevin Elliott. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined $10,000 for sexually assaulting Hernandez, and his criminal trial revealed allegations of rape by three other women and a misdemeanor for trying to assault another woman.
A letter included with the motion filed Thursday states that Briles does not want to settle the case and implies that the school is using Briles as a scapegoat in the ongoing Title IX and sexual assault controversy.
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6:16 PM EDT
Paula Lavigne and Mark Schlabach
Former head coach Art Briles, in an emergency motion filed Thursday, is accusing Baylor University of unfairly blaming him and the football program for the school's overall "institutional failure" in addressing sexual assault.
The motion, part of the Title IX civil rights lawsuit filed in March by a sexual assault victim, says the university was keeping Briles in the dark about plans to settle the lawsuit, including not informing him of a meeting scheduled for Friday between Baylor officials and plaintiff Jasmin Hernandez and her attorney to possibly mediate and settle the case.
ESPN does not normally name victims of sexual assault, but Hernandez came out publicly with the filing of the lawsuit. In 2012, Hernandez, a former Baylor student, was raped by former football player Tevin Elliott. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined $10,000 for sexually assaulting Hernandez, and his criminal trial revealed allegations of rape by three other women and a misdemeanor for trying to assault another woman.
A letter included with the motion filed Thursday states that Briles does not want to settle the case and implies that the school is using Briles as a scapegoat in the ongoing Title IX and sexual assault controversy.
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Read more: http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/16257188/fired-coach-art-briles-accuses-baylor-university-wrongful-termination
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