A federal jury has found Baylor University negligent in a Title IX lawsuit and awarded $270,000 to a former student who alleged she was physically abused by a football player in 2014. The verdict Tuesday centered on a period of wide-ranging scandal at the nation’s biggest Baptist school.
WACO, Texas — A federal jury on Tuesday found Baylor University negligent in a Title IX lawsuit and awarded $270,000 to a former student who alleged she was physically abused by a football player in 2014 during a period ofIn siding with former student Dolores Lozano, jurors in a Waco courtroom held that Baylor “maintained a policy of deliberate indifference to reports of sexual harassment” that put her at risk.
“We are obviously disappointed in the decision in this case, as we continue to contend that Baylor coaches and employees in Athletics and across the campus reported and handled these incidents in the correct, legally and clinically prescribed manner,” the statement read. In the wake of the scandal, the school hired Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton to investigate how it handled those assaults and others. The law firm’s report determined that under the leadership of school President Ken Starr, Baylor did little to respond to accusations of sexual assault involving football players over several years.Lozano’s lawsuit faulted Baylor over its handling of her reports that she was assaulted three times in 2014 by then-running back Devin Chafin.
Baylor officials have said the school has made sweeping changes to how it addresses sexual assault claims and victims in response to the Pepper Hamilton report. That report has never been fully released publicly, despite efforts by the women suing the school to force it into the open. Briles has denied he covered up sexual violence in his program. He led the program to a Big 12 conference championship but
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