Also in North Carolina, a UNC football player has turned himself in—seven months after he was accused of raping a fellow student. The 19-year-old woman, Delaney Robinson, went public to denounce the way the university treated her and handled the case. She says she was attacked on Valentine’s Day night by linebacker Allen Artis, who she says pinned her down and raped her. She says she went to the hospital the next morning and then reported the attack to university administrators, who she says asked her accusatory questions, including whether she led him on and how many men she had slept with in her life. She says she was later enraged when she heard the recordings of the administrators’ questioning of the football player in a strikingly different manner.
Delaney Robinson: “My humiliation turned to rage when I watched the recorded interview of my rapist by DPS investigators. Rather than accusing him of anything, the investigators spoke to him in a tone of camaraderie. They provided reassurances to him when he became upset. They even laughed with him when he told them how many girls’ phone numbers he had managed to get on the same night that he raped me. They told him, ’Don’t sweat it. Just keep on living your life and keep on playing football.’”
The football player, Allen Artis, has now been charged with two misdemeanors: sexual battery and assault on a female.