The Hunting Ground Page #9

I was trying to, like, push him off

and kick him off, but he was just too big.

And I said, "Please stop"

multiple times, and I said "no. "

Eventually he pushed his hand over my face

and, like, pushed my face into the floor.

Um...

And he just continued to rape me.

He finished and then he put my clothes

back on, and he said, "You can leave now. "

And then he's like,

"I'll take you home on my scooter. "

I mean... okay.

I had no idea where I was.

I didn't know how else

I was supposed to get home.

I wanted to get out of there.

This was the worst feeling because

I didn't wanna hold onto him, you know?

But I was afraid

that I was gonna fall off of the scooter.

He dropped me off

at the intersection where I told him

because I didn't want him

to know where I lived.

I didn't know really

what I was supposed to do.

I tweeted, "Someone help me. "

My friend responded, and she was like,

"Well, tell me what happened. "

And we decided that

we need to call the police.

- You said she was raped?

- Yeah.

- Okay, so she did not know the person.

- No.

The Florida State University

Police took me

in the back of a police car

to the hospital.

I got all of the, um... the blood work

and the rape kit and everything.

They were watching bruises appear

as I was laying in the hospital bed.

We got a call about three in the morning.

We grabbed some stuff,

and we jumped in the car

and started heading to FSU

as quick as we could.

She was laying in the hospital bed,

and we each went to one side,

and we just held her, and all three of us

laid there... sat there, and cried.

That's when

Investigator Angulo came in.

And I told him kind of everything.

I'm very pro law enforcement.

And Tallahassee PD was there, and we

assumed they were taking care of things.

I went back

in the beginning of January.

It was my first class on Tuesday,

and I see him walk into the class.

And I knew.

I was like, "That's him. "

They were about to take attendance,

and that's what... I needed to stay calm

and just kind of wait it out.

He was one of the very last names

that they called,

and, um...

my teacher said, "Jameis Winston?"

And he raised his hand.

I didn't know who he was.

The nation's

number one high school quarterback,

Jameis Winston, won Gatorade State

Player of the Year this past season.

Jameis, tell me why

you chose Florida State.

Just because we're trying to build

a tradition there,

and hopefully we can get

a few national championships

and hopefully a Heisman Trophy.

I notified

Investigator Angulo of who it was.

I think at that point he knew that

he was gonna be the big football star.

He said,

"This is a huge football town.

You really should think long and hard

about whether you want

to press charges or not. "

It didn't make sense to me, really.

I... I just thought,

like, you know, that's his job.

Why isn't he...?

Why is he not gonna do it?

The hype for Jameis Winston is

as much as I've ever seen

for a first-year starting quarterback.

Winston, Winston! Winston!

Into the end zone!

Touchdown, Florida State.

Sports teams are the business

on these campuses.

When you build stadiums

that cost 200, 300 million dollars,

when you build athletic facilities

that can get up into that range as well,

and then you look at the

multibillion dollar television contracts.

When you're talking

about that kind of money,

there's an enormous investment

in a student athlete

who may be a quarterback

on a top 20 team

that's pulling in hundreds of millions

of dollars in revenue.

Nineteen-year-old Winston is on the verge

of leading his team

to the ultimate victory.

Our main goal is to win

a national championship.

He's had a meteoric rise to fame,

becoming the starting quarterback

as a freshman.

He's a star on the team,

and that doesn't mean he's guilty,

but the point is you have to treat

that person like you would

anyone else in these cases,

and that didn't happen here.

Poised to play in and possibly win

the national championship,

a frontrunner

for the Heisman Trophy award,

Florida State quarterback,

Jameis Winston,

now possibly finds himself

in some hot water.

Winston is part

of an ongoing investigation

into a sexual assault complaint

filed nearly a year ago,

but today was turned over

to the state attorney.

As soon as I saw this story break,

I thought how terribly, terribly unfair

it is to this young man.

I think it's very, very unfortunate

that this young dude

with this Magic Johnson caliber smile

and a level of production

and the things that he has done en route

to pursuing a national championship,

and the Heisman Trophy,

and now it comes out?

It just stinks to me.

DNA analysis confirmed

the DNA provided by Winston

matched that sample

taken from the accuser.

Although he has never spoken directly

to cops or prosecutors,

Jameis Winston, through his attorneys,

maintains his innocence

and says any sex was consensual.

Jameis Winston!

He's into the promised land!

Touchdown, FSU!

His voice, his way, his team.

Our football team

kept winning games.

We were gonna play

in the national championship.

All these people were praising him.

People were just calling me names;

a slut, a whore.

I got a tweet

from a girl who I didn't know.

The tweet was like, "Why would you blame

such a good guy for doing this?"

People were threatening me, my family.

And there was other people

that were threatening my sorority,

saying, "We're gonna

burn down their house. "

Jameis Winston

will not be charged with the rape

that allegedly happened

exactly a year ago.

Here's prosecutor

and FSU alumni Willie Meggs.

We've carefully examined

all the evidence in this case

and have concluded that no charges

will be filed against anyone in this case.

Do you think

Jameis Winston raped that girl?

Uh... I think I did not have

sufficient evidence

to prove that he sexually assaulted her

against her will.

Uh...

I think things that happened there

that night were... not good.

As FSU fights for the national title,

the alleged victim drops out of school.

FSU football fans are

predictably delighted by this result.

Florida State! Whoo!

- Jameis Winston.

- He's amazing! What a great guy.

Jameis Christ. That's it.

The justice system was proved right.

Right? It worked.

Every school in the country

that's a big time powerhouse football team

has players dealing with this sh*t.

Some girl got jealous and wanted to be

like, a part of the scene, you know.

She was a liar.

Football star, Jameis Winston,

Florida State quarterback,

had the game

of his young life Monday,

when he led the Seminoles

to the national championship.

Sexual assault cases

are always tough.

Probably the first time

someone is apprehended

is not the first time that they have...

engaged in forceful conduct on someone.

I went to see my victim's advocate.

And in that meeting, we were just talking.

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