Another layer will be added to the sexual assault scandal at Baylor University on Tuesday when 60 Minutes Sports airs a special report delving into the coverup of sexual assaults involving football players.
The interview, which will air at 8 p.m. ET on Showtime, has an exclusive interview with Reagan Ramsower, the man in charge of public safety at Baylor. Ramsower, who had never before spoken publicly, said the Baylor Police Department, which he oversees, had a long history of burying sexual assault complaints and noted that a gang rape which allegedly involved football players Tre’Von Armstead and Shamychael Chatman in 2013 was one of those cases. The Baylor police was contacted, but no charges were ever brought and the case sat idle for more than a year.
Armen Keteyian also interviewed Patty Crawford, the former Title IX coordinator, who resigned from the university after feeling like she wasn’t able to do her job properly because of interference from higher-ranking officials at the university. In the interview, Crawford paints her former employer in a grim light.
“There were a lot of people like me at the university that did not want these things happening and were fighting for it, but they didn’t have the power or the authority and they were not heard,” Crawford said. “That is institutional. What drives a culture? It’s the top. And that was the hardest thing for me to come to grips with was after all of this, this report’s released, after all of this, the discrimination became so clear even against me. That’s power and that’s control. What is rape about? Power and control.”
It seems like new information regarding the depth and breadth of one of the biggest sexual assault scandals in U.S. history comes out monthly as people continue to step forward and tell their stories of the misdeeds and inattention of both the athletic department and the university as a whole.
It’s a wonder when and if all of the improprieties will be revealed.
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