NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Vanderbilt football player charged with rape told a jury Monday that he can’t remember a dorm room sexual assault that prosecutors say he and three of his teammates carried out.
“I was just drunk out of my mind,” Cory Batey testified. “This is something I would never do in my right state of mind. I’m just sorry.”
Batey told jurors that he was horrified when he saw on his cellphone explicit pictures of a woman he’d never met.
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Batey said no.
Defense attorneys have placed blame on the elite Southern university, saying their clients’ judgment was warped by a campus culture where drunken sex was common. The evidence and testimony presented in court shows several others were at least partly aware that an unconscious woman was being taken advantage of or that something had happened to her, but they did nothing to help her or report it.
The incident came to light only after Vanderbilt officials reviewed a dormitory surveillance video after a report of vandalism. When they reviewed the footage, they saw an unconscious woman being dragged into a dorm room. They called Nashville police, who opened an investigation.
