Campus Police Chief Is Fired After Saying Most Sex Assaults ‘Ain’t Rape’

The campus police chief has been fired at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, in Georgia, after he was quoted in the student newspaper as saying that most sexual assaults are not rape but “women waking up the next morning with a guilt complex.” The chief, Bryan Golden, was dismissed on Friday, according to The Tifton Gazette.

Chief Golden was quoted in an article in the student paper, The Stallion, about sexual assault on college campuses. The full quotation was: “I might sound insensitive, but I’m not. Most of these sexual assaults are women waking up the next morning with a guilt complex. That ain’t rape, that’s being stupid. When the dust settles, it was all consensual. It [forcible rape] doesn’t happen here. It doesn’t show up here. They’re about as much a rape as a goat roping.”

In a separate article published in The Stallion at the same time, the chief said: “I have been out on medical leave for several weeks and do not recall much of this conversation. We talked very openly about these issues, but this article excerpt is not an accurate rendition of our conversation.” The newspaper stood by the accuracy of the quotations.

In a news conference on Friday announcing Chief Golden’s dismissal, the college’s president, David Bridges, called the comments “reprehensible,” “inexcusable,” and not reflective of the campus or its police department, the Gazette reported.