(background info: NU offered this JUCO TE back in dec 2012, he was scheduled to visit but the coaches called him asking to cancel the visit. The real usage of "NU cooled on him")
Was just found guilty of rape. Sentence is 15-25 years long. Link: http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/06/18/vanderbilt-rape-trial-brandon-vandenburg/86052710/
He still has the tweets up:
Also dodged a bullet on dominic walker that year who has yet to play a down of college football
Was just found guilty of rape. Sentence is 15-25 years long. Link: http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/06/18/vanderbilt-rape-trial-brandon-vandenburg/86052710/
A jury found former Vanderbilt University football player Brandon Vandenburg guilty late Saturday in the rape of an unconscious woman in his dorm room nearly three years ago.
The jury of seven women and five men deliberated 4½ hours before delivering the verdicts at about 8:20 p.m. Jurors found Vandenburg guilty on all eight counts, exposing him to a prison sentence of 15 to 25 years......
In addition to Vandenburg, three other men were charged in the case, which prompted scrutiny of how colleges respond to sexual assault.
One of those men, Cory Batey, was found guilty after trial in April. The woman testified then. He and Vandenburg stood trial in January 2015. The woman also testified then. But revelations related to one of the jurors led to a mistrial.
Two others, Jaborian "Tip" McKenzie and Brandon E. Banks, have pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial.
Three of the men were strangers. Vandenburg is the one the woman knew.
The one, prosecutors said, that she trusted.
They met on his recruiting visit to campus. When the towering tight-end recruit arrived at Vanderbilt in early June 2013, they began dating. They had seen each other three to four times in just more than two weeks.
On June 22, 2013, they met up at Tin Roof bar on Demonbreun Hill, a popular bar for Vanderbilt students. He was 20 then.
“I was happy to see him,” the woman said. He was excited too, according to Lauren Miller, the woman’s roommate. Miller said she left and did not worry about her roommate.
“I knew they’d been hanging out for a little bit so we trusted him,” Miller said.
The woman does not remember a period of hours between sipping a blue drink Vandenburg gave her at the bar and waking up in his bed, alone and in the worst pain she’s felt, at 8 a.m. the next day, she said
She said she believed what Vandenburg told her: that she’d gotten drunk and vomited and that he had taken care of her.
They met up later the day of the rape. She felt bad about the night before, and when he initiated intercourse, she consented, she said.
They continued talking via text message after that, and rumors built on campus about what happened.
He began orchestrating a cover-up, according to testimony, meeting with his teammates to get their stories in line and later going to California to destroy evidence.
All the while he kept talking to her.
Two days after the rape, he wished her "night " and "sweet dreams" in text messages, Metro Nashville Police Detective Chad Gish testified.
Three days after, he asked: “When are we going to cook!? Gotta show you my skills."
That was the day the woman went to get an about three-hour medical exam known as a rape kit. Detectives convinced her to go after seeing surveillance video of her being carried into Vandenburg’s dorm. They showed her still images from the video.
After she saw those pictures, Vandenburg sent another message: “I would never let what they’re saying happen to you.”
Vandenburg’s cellphone showed internet searches in that same time period. One Gish said he found was: “can police recover deleted picture messages."
Four days after the rape, detectives Jason Mayo and Mike Shreeve questioned Vandenburg.
He told them he sat on his bed and watched as his teammates assaulted the woman. He said he did not touch her.
“She got sexually assaulted right in front of me. And I didn’t do anything,” he said in the recorded interview that was played for the jury. “I should’ve called someone.
“They deserve to go to jail.”
Gish found the deleted pictures and videos of the rape about a week later.
They showed, according to trial testimony:
Vandenburg carried her unconscious body into his room at Gillette Hall about 2:30 a.m. June 23, 2013, asking three teammates he ran into outside for help. They put her on the floor and at least two of them penetrated her with their fingers and one sat on her face, raising his middle finger for a photograph, according to trial testimony.
Vandenburg could not get an erection, so he watched pornography on his laptop.
He tried to wake up his roommate on the top bunk, saying “we have this b---- in here” and “we’re gonna f--- her.” Vandenburg sent videos to four friends and destroyed condoms. The man she trusted giggled and goaded his teammate, “squeeze that s---,” referring to a bottle in her anus.
Mayo told the woman what detectives found. That she had been raped,
And the man she trusted lied.
He still has the tweets up:
Also dodged a bullet on dominic walker that year who has yet to play a down of college football
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