OT - former MSU players plead to "Seduction of an Unmarried Woman"
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/04/04/former…
Josh King, Donnie Corley and Demetric Vance on Wednesday each pleaded guilty to a charge of seducing an unmarried woman. King also pleaded to a surveilling charge and admitted he shared videos of the alleged victim on Snapchat.
Amazing, considering that all three of them were facing up to life in prison. Pleading down to a crime that sounds like something people forgot to remove from the books in the 1920s suggests the way-too-cozy relationship between the MSU athletic department and the Ingham County court system is continuing, but if you listen to the victim's lawyer, it's actually worse than that:
Karen Truszkowski, a Lansing-based attorney for the victim, said her client was not interested in speaking publicly about the situation because she wants her identity to remain private. “Part of the reason she doesn’t want to go public at this point is what has happened to the women in the Nassar case,” said Truszkowski, referring to the more than 200 victims in the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal. “They have been crucified. Not by the media but by members of the Board (of Trustees), etc., and she is not willing to deal with that now,” the lawyer said. “They have been awful to those women … the comments that some of board members have made and the way MSU has treated them.”
"Welcome to MSU! Our leadership is committed to victimizing our students and then slandering them so shamefully that they're better of staying silent afterwards. But it's okay, so long as Dantionio keeps beating Michigan."
I don't think the sex charge Perry plead to was a felony - it was the resisting/fleeing that was a felony charge. I want to say the sex charge was "3rd degree criminal sexual contact" or something like that, which is a misdemeanor.
It really is depressing that Ingham County treated Grant Perry (properly, I'd say) far harsher for his incident than the various (alleged, I guess) physical and sexual assaults of women by MSU athletes. Like, I get that you don't want to be yelled at by Izzo, Dantonio, or whatever passes as an adult in the MSU AD, but have some personal self respect. I think Perry deserved to be taken to task for his actions, but good lord - this incident sounded horrific and yet these guys are basically walking free
Michigan State University Police said at a hearing that led to the charges that the victim reported King invited her to "speak somewhere quiet," then "pulled" her into a bathroom and forced her to perform oral and vaginal sex; Corley and Vance were each accused of later forcing her to perform oral sex.
I don't really think it's fear of being yelled at by Izzo or Dantonio. I think it's fear of political retribution for those above the two, starting with BOT and others with heavy financial influence in the area.
Per the article, King, Corley and Vance were represented by attorney Shannon Smith, who specializes in criminal sex cases and was also Larry Nassar's legal counsel.
Smith made headlines herself during the Nassar trial - first, for getting dunked on during Rachael Denhollander's impact statement and later for infamously saying that part of her believes that Nassar didn't assault all his accusers.
At this point, MSU might as well put her on retainer - there still might be two or three rapists in East Lansing she hasn't represented.
Shit, somebody set the Wayback Machine 100 years ago and didn't tell anyone??!!
better throw the book at me -- that pretty much sums up my teens and early twenties.
Me too.
Only in my case it's a misdemeanor, because it never worked.
Despicable.
You would think that MSU/East Lansing would wake up and make no mistakes on appearing too soft, uncaring, etc....in regards to sex crimes.
I can't believe ESPN didn't talk about this all day? I work, but first I have heard of this and it should be all over. Did MSU use some funds to shut them up?
The plea deal doesn't say forced, it says they asked for and received oral sex. I think the charges they settled on reflect that this girl may have been drunk and they should have known she couldn't consent.
The players were expelled from MSU. How would this verdict benefit them?
From a public opinion perception, I would say it helps. This conviction sounds a whole lot better than "Three Former MSU Football Players Found Guilty of Rape."