06-19-2016, 01:53 AM
I'll be surprised (and pissed) if the convicted rapists in this college rape case get off with three months behind bars.
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Vanderbilt University football players Brandon Vandenburg, 21 and Cory Batey, 21, were both convicted last month of raping an unconscious young woman who Vandenburg was dating at the time.
Vandenburg carried his passed-out date from the car into his dorm room after they'd been partying heavily back in June 2013.
As he carried her through the dorm building, Vandenburg invited three other football players to come with them to his room. There's surveillance video of Vandenburg carrying the woman through the dorm and the players dragging her out of an elevator and taking pictures of her before going into the room.
Inside the room, prosecutors say the 4 men raped the woman and recorded it on their cell phones. Vandenburg passed out condoms, filmed the men cheering each other on as the girl was raped and penetrated with a water bottle, and sent the cell video to friends as it was happening. Total effin' scumbags.
Vandenburg's defense was that he was too drunk to know what was going to happen and he hardly knew the three other players. Batey says if his father hadn't died of cancer when he was 9, he probably wouldn't have gotten so drunk and did what he did. Pfft.
Both rapists face 25 years in prison when they're sentenced (expected to be in July).
Brandon E. Banks and Jaborian "Tip" McKenzie, both 20, testified at Vandenburg and Batey's trials; they have not yet been tried.
Story and photos: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-room.html
Vanderbilt University football players Brandon Vandenburg, 21 and Cory Batey, 21, were both convicted last month of raping an unconscious young woman who Vandenburg was dating at the time.
Vandenburg carried his passed-out date from the car into his dorm room after they'd been partying heavily back in June 2013.
As he carried her through the dorm building, Vandenburg invited three other football players to come with them to his room. There's surveillance video of Vandenburg carrying the woman through the dorm and the players dragging her out of an elevator and taking pictures of her before going into the room.
Inside the room, prosecutors say the 4 men raped the woman and recorded it on their cell phones. Vandenburg passed out condoms, filmed the men cheering each other on as the girl was raped and penetrated with a water bottle, and sent the cell video to friends as it was happening. Total effin' scumbags.
Vandenburg's defense was that he was too drunk to know what was going to happen and he hardly knew the three other players. Batey says if his father hadn't died of cancer when he was 9, he probably wouldn't have gotten so drunk and did what he did. Pfft.
Both rapists face 25 years in prison when they're sentenced (expected to be in July).
Brandon E. Banks and Jaborian "Tip" McKenzie, both 20, testified at Vandenburg and Batey's trials; they have not yet been tried.
Story and photos: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-room.html