@247Sports: REPORT: Police, Florida State University hampered Jameis Winston investigation http://t.co/eiCiSa4fuy
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/u...t-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=2TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The 911 call could not have sounded more urgent: A man was beating a woman holding a baby outside their apartment as she tried to leave.
“You just need to get someone out here right away because it is really bad,” the caller said, adding that the man was “punching” the mother and “grabbing the little baby around the arm.”
By the time the police arrived shortly after 3 a.m. one day last January, the couple were back inside. The 19-year-old woman acknowledged that she and her boyfriend had argued, and that he had not wanted her to leave. But she insisted nothing physical had occurred.
Officers responding to a domestic violence call have a legal duty to investigate thoroughly, seek written statements from witnesses and from the victim, instruct the victim on how to seek help and, finally, forward their report to the local domestic abuse crisis center. But, according to their brief report on the episode, the officers did none of that.
Florida State University officials and Tallahassee police took steps to both hide, and then hinder, the criminal investigation into a rape allegation against the school's Heisman-trophy winning quarterback Jameis Winston last fall, a FOX Sports investigation has found.
The upshot: University administrators and Winston’s attorney, Tim Jansen, had a head start on the state attorney in Tallahassee responsible for investigating and prosecuting serious crimes. Florida State administrators, for instance, had all the police reports at least four days before State Attorney Willie Meggs was handed the case.
After learning in December of 2013 that no charges would be filed, FOX Sports examined thousands of pages of documents — including law enforcement files, e-mails and other correspondence as well as video and audio interviews conducted by detectives and other records — through a series of requests filed with multiple agencies under Florida's public records laws.
Among the findings:
Did any one at FSU learn anything from Penn State cover up and ultimate severe Penalties??
I'm ashamed to say the culture at FSU has been rotten for a long time. Remember when Bobby Bowden was told one of his players had been arrested and he said he was "prayin' for a misdemeanor" while laughing? I can't imagine the type of stuff that has been covered up over the years. The stuff we know about is bad enough.
Also, the PSU penalties were recently dropped. In my opinion FSU is much worse because of how widespread the corruption is. They should not be allowed a football program.
The reports are shocking! And It used to be a women's college. No way I would let my daughter go there.