A male University of Notre Dame student filed a lawsuit Friday, accusing a female academic coach of pressuring football and basketball players into having sex with her daughter. That academic coach has now been fired for violating the university's "values" and "discrimination harassment" policy, according toa report by the New York Daily News. Over the weekend, university spokesman Paul Browne characterized the allegations as "unfounded" and "a mere publicity stunt."
On Friday, the Daily News described the allegations against Notre Dame:
"The student came forward Friday accusing an unidentified faculty member of orchestrating 'sexually and racially motivated' trysts with her daughter by including condoms, transportation and hotel rooms for academic favors.
The accusor is an African-American student while the academic coach is white. Neither the student, coach nor her daughter are identified in court documents filed Friday in Indiana’s St. Joseph Circuit Court.
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The alleged relationship did not begin until he sought tutoring lessons during this year’s spring semester. Those lessons quickly escalated to out-of-state sexual rendezvous between her daughter and the student.
She would later interrogate him about the 'nature, frequency, and quality of the sexual activities' they had, the lawsuit claims, badgering him with 'racially-charged comments about his sexual prowess and genitalia.'
He believes the coach was preying on other African-American student athletes as well."
When the student-athlete attempted to break off the affair with academic coach's daughter, she allegedly pressured him to convert to Catholicism and seek mental health counseling. He claims she conspired with the school's psychiatric support staff to keep him sedated and cooperative through medication.
On Friday, the Daily News described the allegations against Notre Dame:
"The student came forward Friday accusing an unidentified faculty member of orchestrating 'sexually and racially motivated' trysts with her daughter by including condoms, transportation and hotel rooms for academic favors.
The accusor is an African-American student while the academic coach is white. Neither the student, coach nor her daughter are identified in court documents filed Friday in Indiana’s St. Joseph Circuit Court.
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The alleged relationship did not begin until he sought tutoring lessons during this year’s spring semester. Those lessons quickly escalated to out-of-state sexual rendezvous between her daughter and the student.
She would later interrogate him about the 'nature, frequency, and quality of the sexual activities' they had, the lawsuit claims, badgering him with 'racially-charged comments about his sexual prowess and genitalia.'
He believes the coach was preying on other African-American student athletes as well."
When the student-athlete attempted to break off the affair with academic coach's daughter, she allegedly pressured him to convert to Catholicism and seek mental health counseling. He claims she conspired with the school's psychiatric support staff to keep him sedated and cooperative through medication.
