IN BRIEF : Reluctance to Report OU Rape Told
A woman allegedly raped by three suspended Oklahoma football players didn’t immediately report the attack because she did not think she would be believed, the sister of the woman said today.
The sister was the first witness called today in the preliminary hearing for Nigel Clay, Glen Bell and Bernard Hall. The three are accused of first-degree rape in the alleged Jan. 21 attack on a 20-year-old Oklahoma City woman in the athletic dormitory. The hearing will determine if the three should stand trial on the charges.
The victim first told her sister about the alleged attack early Jan. 23. She reported the assault to police later that day.
Hall’s attorney, Fred Shaeffer, asked if the woman’s sister mentioned why she had waited to report the alleged assault.
“She told me she didn’t feel like anybody would believe her,” the woman said. “They’re OU football players.”
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