The University of Nebraska didn't investigate an alleged sexual assault by a football player and protected other players accused of sexual assault, alleges a lawsuit filed in Michigan on behalf of students at Nebraska and Michigan State.
“UNL has fostered a culture in which female victims are discouraged from reporting sexual assaults, sexual harassment, stalking, and other forms of general discrimination when those acts are perpetrated by male student-athletes in order to protect UNL, the male athletics program, male student-athletes, and the NCAA, at the expense of female victims,” the lawsuit states.
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Former Huskers' volleyball player Capri Davis is named as one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Davis, who left the program in December, said she and an unidentified female student-athlete were groped by two football players in the spring of 2019.
The unidentified student-athlete also alleges she was raped by a football player and another student-athlete in 2018. She didn't report the rape, saying in the lawsuit she "wanted to try to forget what had happened and move on," but did report the groping to Nebraska's Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance, the office responsible for investigating sexual misconduct and harassment under Title IX. The lawsuit says the office never investigated the incident.
Also in the lawsuit, among several other allegations, another student reported a rape by a football player in 2015 and says the office never followed up and never interviewed the witnesses she provided.
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