Baylor University has settled with two women who said they were gang-raped by multiple football players in 2012, the university said in a statement. One of the two women also said she had been physically assaulted by a football player in 2013.
Baylor did not disclose financial details of the settlement. David E. Garland, the university’s interim president, said in the statement that football players implicated in the alleged sexual assaults and the athletic-department personnel who apparently saw the physical-assault report in 2013 are no longer at the university.
“It breaks my heart that even one student would be sexually assaulted while a part of this university,” Mr. Garland stated. “I offer my sincere apologies, both personally and on behalf of the university, that we did not do more to prevent, respond to, or support the care of these young women.”
The settlement was reached months after a sexual-assault investigation described a “fundamental failure” to protect sexual-assault victims. The investigation shocked the campus and toppled several of the university’s leaders and its football coach.
The university also recently revealed that 17 women accused 19 football players of domestic violence or sexual assault from 2011 to 2015, and four of those assaults were allegedly gang rapes.
