Brothers guilty of assault against gay man got posts at UT
Ten months after he finished parole for violently assaulting a gay man in Austin, the University of Texas hired graduate student Darren Gay as a teaching assistant, putting him in charge of supervising undergraduates and helping to grade them.
Gay’s younger brother, Glen Gay, who took part in the attack in 2004, also worked with students for several years at UT, where he was apparently a volunteer research assistant.
UT officials say that federal laws protecting confidential student information forbid them from explaining publicly how two of the four people charged with taking part in a high-profile hate crime in Austin ended up working at the university and assisting students there.
But last February, shortly after UT officials were asked about his criminal background, an online directory listing that showed Darren Gay was a teacher’s assistant for a biochemistry class was removed.
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