Baylor football player Oakman arrested on sex assault charge

Baylor football player Oakman arrested on sex assault charge

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) NFL anticipation and above Baylor football amateur Shawn Oakman was arrested Wednesday on a allegation of sexually assaulting a woman at his Texas accommodation beforehand this month, Waco badge said.

The arrest of the record-setting arresting end is the latest adverse adventure for the Baylor football program. Two above players were bedevilled of animal advance in 2014 and 2015, and the academy faces a federal accusation from one of the victims claiming the academy didn't assure her.

A woman told badge that Oakman, 24, attacked her April 3 afterwards they met at a Waco nightclub. According to a badge affidavit, Oakman told investigating admiral they had consensual sex.

In a account announcement the arrest, badge aswell said they served two seek warrants for Oakman's cellphone and his DNA while analytic him Wednesday afternoon.

Baylor's career sacks baton accomplished his academy accommodation in December.

Oakman's abettor did not anon acknowledge to requests for animadversion on the arrest. Attorney advice for Oakman was not anon available. Waco badge did not anon acknowledge to letters gluttonous animadversion above the accounting statement.

The woman told badge she absolved with Oakman to his accommodation afterwards affair him at the club and he attacked her in his bedroom. According to a badge affidavit, the woman said she was able to leave the accommodation afterwards she was assaulted.

The affirmation says the woman was ''treated for her injuries'' at a medical center, area a animal advance assay was performed. Investigators searched the accommodation several hours later.

NFL anticipation and above Baylor football amateur Shawn Oakman was arrested Wednesday on a allegation of sexually assaulting a woman at his Texas accommodation beforehand this month, Waco badge said.

Baylor, the better Baptist university in the country, faces a federal accusation and questions over whether it bootless to act finer adjoin football players accused of animal assault. A above apprentice accused the university of advised alienation in its administration of her complaints about one player, Tevin Elliott, who was eventually answerable and bedevilled in 2014 of two counts of animal assault. He was bedevilled to 20 years in prison.

A year later, a board disqualified that addition Baylor football player, Sam Ukwuachu, assaulted a above Baylor women's soccer player; he accustomed a six-month bastille sentence.

Officials accept beneath to abode specific allegations, admitting President and Chancellor Ken Starr has decried the ''scourge of animal violence.'' In February, the academy appear a $5 actor charge to advance its acknowledgment to animal advance and said it would add addition investigator and an authoritative abettor to the school's Title IX office, which enforces acquiescence with anti-gender bigotry rules and will investigate claims of animal advance on campus.

Oakman, a Philadelphia native, came to Baylor afterwards getting kicked off the football aggregation at Penn State.

According to the Houston Chronicle, Oakman, who was already adverse agitation with Penn State coaches, approved to yield a sandwich and bake-apple abstract after paying, again affective the wrist of a agent who attempted to stop him.

''I was mad at myself. It was my fault,'' Oakman told the newspaper. ''I let myself and my ancestors down.''

Oakman had 128 tackles and 17.5 sacks in three years at Baylor. He was abeyant for the 2015 division opener for an bearding rules violation, but told the bi-weekly in January he had accomplished and was accessible for the NFL.

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