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32. Here's another article on this incident...

Jenkins breaks silence on Seeberg allegations
http://www.wsbt.com/news/wsbt-jenkins-breaks-silence-on-seeb-122610,0,1148738.story
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When a campus police officer interviewed Seeberg on Sept. 1, the officer was made aware of the young woman’s history of depression and the fact that she was taking Effexor, according to Notre Dame spokesman Dennis Brown. Effexor is a medication used for treatment of depression and anxiety. Seeberg’s suicide came nine days after she reported to Notre Dame Security Police that a student athlete had touched her breasts while they were alone in his dormitory room. Under Indiana law, touching another person without consent for purposes of sexual gratification meets the definition of sexual battery, a felony.
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So it's most likely that this football player engaged in sexual foreplay, not sexual intercourse. Seeberg's statements imply this, not rape. But contrary to some bashing ND over this, there were witnesses with Seeberg around the time of the alleged sexual assault, but they and cell phone records conflict with Seeberg's account.

The prosecutor’s written explanation said Seeberg’s suicide made her statements to police inadmissible in court because they would be considered hearsay evidence. Dvorak also said Seeberg’s written statement conflicted with the accounts of three other students and that the cell phone records were inconsistent with Seeberg’s claims.

Lizzy Seeberg’s recollections of Aug. 31 are detailed in her typed Sept. 5 statement, a copy of which was obtained by the South Bend Tribune.
The young woman said she and the player went to his room that evening, along with a male friend of the player’s and that friend’s girlfriend, who was also Seeberg’s friend, according to the statement. Seeberg wrote that it appeared as though the player and his friend were communicating with their cell phones shortly before the other couple abruptly left the room.

Alone with the player, Seeberg started feeling uncomfortable with the conversation. “I started feeling as though I was in danger,” she wrote. “I didn’t feel safe in his room.”

Seeberg wrote that she reached for her phone to text her female friend to come back but that the player stopped her. “He then proceeded to grab my face and started to kiss me. Tears started to roll down my face because I didn’t know what I should do and I was extremely scared,” she wrote.
He then touched her breasts and pulled down her tank top by the straps, Seeberg wrote. The incident ended when the player received a call or text on his cell phone and he “violently threw me off of him to the side,” she wrote.

About a minute later, the other couple returned to the room, according to the statement.

Seeberg wrote that she had consumed two beers that evening and that the player “forcibly told me to drink an open beer” when they were alone in his room. “Though I wouldn’t consider myself drunk, I definitely felt the effect of the three beers I had that night,” she wrote.

Seeberg’s account states she and the other male student each had beer that evening, but that neither her female friend nor the player had a drink.
Some media reports have stated Seeberg accused the player of raping her, but her statement makes no such claim.
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