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Three other women have come forward to publicly denounce LSU’s handling of their rape and sexual harassment complaints, two involving football players, one involving a professor as part of a larger lawsuit claiming the university no failed to properly investigate allegations of sexual misconduct on campus.
A group of seven current and former students filed a federal Title IX complaint against LSU in April, claiming the university had repeatedly engaged in discriminatory, retaliatory and other unlawful actions when students attempted report rape, domestic violence and other issues on campus. An amended complaint filed Friday in Louisiana’s Middle District lists three other women as plaintiffs. The updated documents also list some new defendants, including a company “O” The Rosy Finch Boyz LLC, which lists LSU head football coach Ed Orgeron as an officer.
The updated complaint adds to allegations against former LSU star Derrius Guice, whose statistics were removed from LSU’s record books after a handful of women accused him of sexual assault and sexual harassment. The lawsuit calls him “John Doe,” but the women who publicly accused Guice of misconduct are named in the lawsuit.
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The latest to come forward is Ashlyn Robertson, who signed up for LSU in 2015. Robertson threw a party in 2016 at her apartment which Guice attended uninvited, according to the lawsuit. Robertson said she passed out on her bed when Guice entered her bedroom and raped her. Her friends on the football team later told her that Guice was bragging about having sex with her, according to the lawsuit.
She went to LSU’s Student Health Center a few days later, where she found out she had “contracted chlamydia from the rape” and “a nurse told Robertson it was best not to prosecute. investigation ”, according to the lawsuit. But at this point some of the LSU staff knew it anyway: Robertson told a friend of the LSU dive team about it and the friend’s mother reported it to the dive coach at LSU, according to the lawsuit. The coach reported this to senior associate athletic director Miriam Segar, according to the lawsuit.
About a week later, former LSU student dean, Mari Fuentes-Martin, emailed Robertson asking if she wanted to pursue a Title IX investigation, and Robertson declined. Fuentes-Martin is also now named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
Robertson said Guice nonetheless started a campaign against her; she said she was hiding in her bedroom when he visited her apartment in 2016. He eventually found her and “harassed her about” spreading rumors. “John Doe told Robertson that he had “a gun with [her] name on it ”, according to the lawsuit.
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When Robertson later spoke about the sexual assault to her boyfriend, an LSU football rookie, her boyfriend approached Orgeron about it, according to the lawsuit. The boyfriend is not named in court documents.
“Orgeron responded by telling Robertsonsboyfriend not to be upset because ‘everyone’s girlfriend is sleeping with other people,'” the lawsuit reads.
USA Today first reported the Robertson story last year without naming it or Orgeron’s alleged comments. But Orgeron issued a statement at the time denying he was aware of the rape allegations against Guice and saying the quote attributed to him was “not accurate.”
The updated lawsuit says Orgeron did not report the rape allegation to LSU’s Title IX office or any other entity.
Robertson said in the lawsuit the rape had put her on a downward spiral and she turned to alcohol, drugs and hypersexual behavior to help him cope with her trauma. She was arrested for drug trafficking, went to rehab twice, and left LSU after losing her TOPS scholarship. The lawsuit says she cannot be transferred to another university because LSU will not release her transcript until she repays the remainder of her TOPS scholarship.
An LSU spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment on Friday.
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Guice was arrested last year in Virginia for domestic violence, which resulted in him being banned from the Washington football team. Those charges were dropped this week, however, after Guice reached a pre-trial agreement with his accuser. He has not been convicted of any sexual assault or battery crimes, and has never been arrested on allegations related to his behavior at LSU. His lawyer did not return a message for this story, but previously denied that Guice did anything wrong while at LSU.
Robertson and former LSU tennis player Abby Owens each charged Guice with rape while at LSU. Former Sports Department student Calise Richardson said in the federal lawsuit Guice also attempted to rape her at LSU, while another former Sports Department student Samantha Brennan accused Guice of sharing a partially nude photo of her without her permission. Superdome security guard Gloria Scott also accused Guice of sexually harassing her.
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The updated lawsuit also includes details of another rape allegation involving a former top LSU football player.
Corinn Hovis, who signed up with LSU in 2019, said she visited a Tigerland bar in 2020 where she met “a highly recruited quarterback from the LSU football team.” The lawsuit calls him “John Loe”, but says he transferred to another university on August 6, 2020 a profile that matches that of Peter Parrish.
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Hovis alleges in the lawsuit that she left the bar with the player very drunk and raped her while she was passed out in an SUV. She tried to file a report with LSU police, but LSUPD referred the case to the Baton Rouge Police Department because it happened off campus, according to the prosecution. He says BRPD officers refused to take a statement from her, while LSUPD disagreed and took her to hospital for a rape assessment, which found bruises on her. cervix.
Hovis chose to continue a Title IX investigation and the football player was found responsible for the sexual assault, according to the lawsuit. He was suspended from May 10, 2020 until May 31, 2021 and issued a no-contact directive that the lawsuit says violated. But he was then transferred to another university.
Parrish is now on the football roster at the University of Memphis. An anonymous LSU football player who fits his description and was suspended from LSU on May 10, 2020, filed a Title IX lawsuit against LSU last year in federal court which said he had denied due process under LSU disciplinary proceedings. The lawyers in this case did not return any messages for this story.
Hovis struggled as a result of the investigation and needed medical intervention for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and more, according to the lawsuit.
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The third new plaintiff in the lawsuit is Sarah Beth Kitch, a former LSU graduate student who applied for a doctorate in political science from LSU. program in 2009. Her advisor, named in the petition “John Moe,” sexually harassed her while she was studying with him, according to the lawsuit.
“Moes’ sexual harassment against Kitch gradually escalated during his time at LSU, including, but not limited to, asking Kitch to wear high heels, expressing interest in having sex with Kitch, proposing Kitch’s sexual favors, discussing how women should ‘spread their legs. open,’ and asking Kitch to come to Moes’ house alone at night, “the lawsuit reads.
Kitch was afraid to report his behavior because she was afraid nothing would happen and she was dependent on him to graduate, according to the lawsuit. The professor became disabled at one point and demanded that she drive him to and from campus, according to the lawsuit. He called her once to come and help him at his house, and when she arrived he forcefully kissed her, according to the lawsuit.
Kitch completed his doctorate in 2014, but the trauma of his interactions with his advisor persisted, according to the lawsuit. After working at other universities, she reported her advisor in 2019 to the Title IX office of LSU in the hopes that LSU would have a record of the harassment in case other students went through the same.
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But when she filed her report, LSU officials “informed Kitch that it was a good choice not to report the harassment when she was a student because” no one would have done anything “and she would had to deal with the consequences of the report, “the lawsuit said.
In each case, the plaintiffs say they weren’t aware until LSU released its Husch Blackwell report this year that the university’s problems with combating sexual assault were so prevalent.
The women are pushing for class action status, alleging that LSU was deliberately indifferent to sex discrimination on campus, fostered a hostile environment, denied equal protection to all students and more. They are also pursuing civil conspiracy lawsuits under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupted Organizations Act, or RICO, which is federal law often used to eliminate organized crime syndicates.
The women seek legal and punitive damages that are expected to exceed $ 5 million, attorney fees and court costs and a permanent injunction “demanding compliance with Title IX and recurring external audits of USL compliance with the title IX “.
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