Baylor University sexual assault scandal

Sam Ukwuachu, a defensive end, was found guilty by a Texas court on August 21, 2015, of two counts of sexual assault of a Baylor student.

Jacob Anderson, 20-year-old Phi Delta Theta president, was charged with sexual assault on March 3, 2016, after a fraternity party.

[3] Anderson pleaded no contest to a charge of unlawful restraint as part of a deal that included mandatory counseling, a $400 fine, and three years of probation.

[4] Shawn Oakman, a former All-American defensive end, was tried for sexual assault of a female student[5] and found not guilty in February 2019.

In 2018, a plaintiff's attorney, Jim Dunnam, accused Baylor of implementing a ″concerted strategy to get the public to believe this is entirely and only a football-related problem.

"[6] In September 2015, following the conviction of former football players Tevin Elliot and Sam Ukwuachu for sexual assault,[7][8][9][10][11] as well as allegations against other players, Baylor University commissioned the law firm Pepper Hamilton to conduct an independent external investigation regarding Baylor's handling of sexual violence.

[14] Jim Grobe, a former Wake Forest head coach and former chairman of the AFCA Ethics Committee, was hired on an interim basis.

In 2016, Briles and Baylor were co-defendants in a lawsuit filed by a woman allegedly sexually assaulted by a football player.

[21] On January 16, 2014, the jury indicted Elliot on two separate counts of sexual assault, allegedly involving two 18-year-old women on the same night in April 2012.

After his arrest, Elliot was suspended from Baylor's football program and campus on the claim of violating student and team policies.

[23] It was widely rumored that he was dismissed due to domestic violence or sexual assault incidents, both of which are denied by Boise State.

Ukwuachu, who was ineligible to play the 2013 season because of National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) rules regarding transfer students, was celebrating with the rest of the team nonetheless at the Waco convention center.

The night at his apartment, she testified, “I was screaming stop and no.” According to her testimony, after he finished, he told her "This isn't rape", asked her if she was going to call the police, and left her to find a ride.

[26] Ukwuachu was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to 180 days in jail, 10 years' felony probation, 400 hours of community service, and had to register as a sex offender.

In March 2017, Waco's 10th Court of Appeals overturned Ukwuachu's conviction and ordered a new trial based on evidence they felt shouldn't have been suppressed.

[27] On July 11, 2019, the 10th Court of Appeals reversed and remanded Sam Ukwuachu’s 2015 sexual assault conviction after stating that prosecutors used false testimony and violated the person's due process rights.

[28] In the legal findings it was stated that there is a “reasonable likelihood that the false impression affected the judgment of the jury.”[29] In 2020, the sexual assault conviction was again reinstated.

[36] In May 2016, Baylor terminated the contract of longtime head football coach Art Briles and University President Ken Starr resigned.

[5] In 2014, KWTX-TV claimed, "the football team may have only played a very minor role in any documented sexual assaults on Baylor students."