A pair of former LSU students say Derrius Guice raped them in 2016 when the ex-Washington Football Team running back was at the school in Baton Rouge, according to a USA TODAY report.
Two former LSU students say ex-Washington RB Derrius Guice raped them in 2016, when he was a rising star freshman. Although multiple coaches were notified, LSU does not appear to have investigated either woman’s claims, a USA TODAY investigation found. https://t.co/2i83XUcCOF
— USA TODAY Sports (@usatodaysports) August 19, 2020
Per the investigation by USA TODAY’s Kenny Jacoby and Nancy Armour:
A USA TODAY investigation found that the women’s allegations were shared at the time with multiple people at the school — including at least two coaches, an athletics administrator and a nurse — yet the school does not appear to have investigated.
… USA TODAY began reporting this specific story Aug. 3, four days before Guice’s arrest, and first interviewed one of the women in January about the alleged rape. That same woman also detailed her allegations in June as a plaintiff in a lawsuit in which she is listed as a “Jane Doe.”
.., Both women told USA TODAY that Guice assaulted them in their own apartments after nights of heavy drinking. One woman said Guice showed up uninvited to a party she was hosting, then entered her bedroom while she was sleeping and raped her. The other woman, the tennis player, said Guice raped her when she allowed him into her home after meeting him for the first time at a bar.
“I was drunk and passed out on my bed,” the first woman said. “I never gave him consent. I never wanted to have sex with him. I don’t even remember except the flashbacks I had. I just wonder sometimes, does he even know that that was wrong?”
The attorney for Guice, who was cut earlier this month after the running back’s arrest on domestic violence charges, denied all allegations. Washington cut him on Aug. 7 following his arrest the same day in Virginia on multiple domestic violence charges, in a separate matter.
“At no time were allegations of physical or sexual assault brought against Derrius during his years as a student athlete at LSU,” Peter D. Greenspun said in his statement. “To bring up such assertions only after the Virginia charges were initiated certainly calls into question the credibility, nature and timing of what is being alleged years later.
“Such speculation and innuendo should not be the basis for Derrius to be required to make any comment at all,” Greenspun added. “But he wants to be absolutely clear. The allegations in this story are just that and have no basis in fact.”
To read the entire investigative report, click here.
Two women say ex-Washington RB Derrius Guice raped them at LSU when he was a freshman. Story by me and @kennyjacoby https://t.co/vZ9MJnVXzI
— Nancy Armour (@nrarmour) August 19, 2020