Marissa

The judgment that came back was basically that the University of Utah didn't have any control over the context of my assault.

And that because it happened off campus, they didn't have control over SL or his choices.

The judge on my case was on my case throughout the whole entire thing when Utah Valley University and the Board of Higher Education were dropped and then when the University of Utah was dropped.

In his judgment, he said reliance on the 2019 player's policy manual general instruction that football players should treat women with respect both on and off campus does not mean that the university has control over the context of virtually every off-campus location in which one or more of its athletes attends a private party.

So he basically goes on to say that the University of Utah did not have control over the assault.

I think this was really hard for me because in the things that we found throughout the investigation, it's very clear that they had so much more control over him than they were taking responsibility for.

So I was very discouraged when the judge came back with that.

I obviously disagree.

I think that there were things that they could have done so many times leading up to this where they could have either gotten him help, added discipline, something that wasn't enabling him to have this much freedom.

And I think that when somebody is a student athlete, there are obviously a lot of perks that come with that.

I think that as a student athlete, you have to live to a higher standard.

So knowing that behind the scenes, he was doing all of these very damaging things to himself and the community around him.

I think that it's very unfair that they protected that and that they enabled that.

Yeah.

And I think that it's really interesting, especially that the coach said, because these people are high profile, that they have a lot of false allegations made against them.

Because I think from the research that I've seen, it's like 2% to 10% of rape charges are proven false.

That's a tiny number.

That's two out of 100 people.

I think even then it's skewed because there are so many people who don't report.

I just think to have that mentality that people lie about student athletes is really damaging.