Univ. of Miami Football Players Accused of Sexually Assaulting 'Physically Helpless' Classmate

[Archae]

Source: ABC News (Good Morning America)

Two University of Miami football players were arrested on sexual battery charges Tuesday and kicked off the team and campus for an alleged incident involving a 17-year-old girl.

Court and jail records show JaWand Blue and Alex Figueroa, both 20-year-old linebackers, were booked Tuesday.

The two admitted to getting the classmate intoxicated and then allegedly raping her several times in Figueroa’s dorm room over the 4th of July weekend.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/university-miami-football-players-arrested-sexual-assault-physically/story?id=24482596

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They are doing the right thing with these two thugs.

Both have been suspended, and banned from the campus pending their trials.

[840high]

1. Beyond disgusting.

[jwirr]

2. Maybe it is time to go back to putting a brand on their forehead like Hester who was branded with an

A for adultery.

[Android3.14]

8. Sure, what better way to show we are a just and enlightened society.

eom

[jwirr]

12. What just and enlightened society are you living in? Those boys were college students they knew

better but they ignored it. My statement was originally made as a tongue in cheek statement that was not to be taken literally but I should have known better.

[groundloop]

13. YOU FORGOT THE :SARCASM: THINGY !!!!

[jwirr]

14. I know. Sorry.

[Android3.14]

15. Mea culpa - More of a comment on the absence of a just and enlightened society

I understand the sentiment of your post. After prison, these guys should have to work as pig castraters at a farm that a woman owns.

[AngryAmish]

16. I didn't know Devin Hestor got branded while at The U

I'll have to find a pic.

[1monster]

17. Hester was not branded. She was sentenced to wear a Scarlet A on the front of her bodice

for the rest of her life. Hence, the name of Hawthorne's book is THE SCARLET LETTER

When she left the New England colony for a visit to England, she considered removing the scarlet A, but decided not to do so.

[Ken Burch]

19. IIRC, she also embroidered the A quite beautifully

turning it from badge of shame to sort of a symbol of defiance.

And in the Demi Moore version, she lived happily ever after or something.

[cosmicone]

3. Jocks beefed up on testosterone and exalted to god status

what could possibly go wrong?

[redstatebluegirl]

4. The "U" on display again...

[rickyhall]

5. Jail time?

[knightmaar]

6. And the second comment ...

.. is about "Remember that woman who totally faked a rape complaint!"

Sigh.

[AAO]

7. DO NOT pass Go, DO NOT collect $200!!

[Android3.14]

9. Violent sports, testosterone, and alcohol

Combined with our culture's treatment of athletes as if they were the immaculate mix of the Virgin Mary and Zeus, and what could possibly go wrong?

[radicalliberal]

10. Expect them to be defended by MRAs. n/t

[groundloop]

11. I'm guessing they weren't starters....

If they were highly prized members of the team they'd be suspended for the first game.

[Blue_Tires]

18. I'm betting they'll find one way or another to squirm out of this

and eventually be re-instated on the team (especially if they're good players)...I've already seen this story play out enough times...