After months of stonewalling, Louisiana State College turned over the remaining pages of a police report Wednesday to a girl on the middle of USA TODAY’s investigation into the college’s mishandling of sexual misconduct complaints.

The report corroborates the account the lady, Samantha Brennan, shared with reporters, and which was featured within the information group’s investigation revealed on Nov. 16. However the college shielded the names of everybody within the report besides the officers. It stated as a result of no arrests have been made, these concerned within the incident – together with the suspect, former LSU operating again Derrius Guice – have a proper to privateness below the state structure.

Brennan and USA TODAY filed a joint lawsuit towards LSU for full entry to the information. A listening to is scheduled Monday in East Baton Rouge Parish District Court docket. Brennan stated she plans to testify.

LSU for months had refused to launch the information to Brennan and to USA TODAY, saying the case was nonetheless energetic as a result of the statute of limitations to prosecute the alleged crime had not expired. However the paperwork obtained Wednesday confirmed no exercise or investigation within the case since Brennan’s preliminary criticism greater than 4 years in the past.

The paperwork additionally confirmed that Brennan informed officers on the time that she didn’t need to press fees.

“This stage of evasion to guard any individual – soccer participant or not – who’s accused of a criminal offense is reprehensible,” stated lawyer Scott L. Sternberg, who’s representing Brennan and USA TODAY of their lawsuit over the information request.

“To disclaim a sufferer the appropriate to assessment her personal investigation file is inhuman,” Sternberg stated. “LSU’s callous institutional conduct will need to have penalties – and we are going to search attorneys’ charges, prices, and arbitrary and capricious damages towards LSU to the fullest extent of the regulation.”

LSU declined to remark for this story.

Brennan, a former pupil and part-time worker in LSU’s soccer recruiting workplace, reported to LSU athletics directors and campus police in July 2016 that Guice had taken {a partially} nude picture of her with out her consent and shared it with not less than one different individual.

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Guice had simply completed his freshman yr at LSU on the time. He confronted no self-discipline from the college and went on to have a breakout, record-setting sophomore season.

Federal regulation and LSU coverage required the officers to report the knowledge to the college’s Title IX workplace for investigation, however Brennan stated nobody from the workplace reached out to her.

This yr, USA TODAY reporters investigating two rape allegations towards Guice – one by a girl’s tennis participant, the opposite by a pupil who was not an athlete – filed a public information request with LSU searching for all campus police stories involving him. In response, LSU offered stories for 2 noncriminal incidents involving Guice however didn’t present Brennan’s report nor point out its existence, in violation of the state public information regulation.

Brennan’s report may need stayed buried had she not learn USA TODAY’s August investigation in regards to the rape allegations towards Guice and contacted the reporters, alerting them that she, too, had had an incident with him. On Aug. 19, Brennan herself requested a duplicate of her police report.

LSU police information supervisor Theresa Griffin informed Brennan that she was “having hassle discovering” the report, after which ignored Brennan’s calls and messages till she referred to as from a special cellphone quantity, Brennan stated. LSU then offered Brennan a one-page, four-sentence “preliminary incident report” that lacked quite a few key particulars, together with Guice’s title and the very fact he’d shared the picture with others, a felony in Louisiana.

When Brennan requested for the total report, she was informed she couldn’t have it as a result of the six-year statute of limitations had not expired and that “prison litigation” was nonetheless anticipated. However Brennan says she nonetheless doesn’t need to press fees, and the East Baton Rouge District Lawyer’s workplace stated campus police have by no means shared the case with prosecutors.

“It was such a slap within the face to have my calls purposefully ignored. The cherry on high was the preliminary report I obtained,” Brennan informed USA TODAY. “How terrible to learn that ‘somebody had taken an image of me. No names, lacking half of the crime, extraordinarily obscure.”

Brennan and USA TODAY sued LSU for entry to the total report in October.

USA TODAY additionally sued LSU in mid-October for entry to full police stories in three different instances involving soccer gamers, and the college produced them Nov. 13. But it surely redacted the names of the suspects, victims and witnesses, once more citing Louisiana’s constitutional proper to privateness.

LSU is also refusing to supply information to the tennis participant who stated Guice raped her. The girl and her lawyer have referred to as and written LSU repeatedly over the previous three months, however the college has but to supply a single doc, they stated.

This text initially appeared on USA TODAY: LSU continues to stonewall girl in sexual misconduct case