The horrid part is, her parents bought it. You see, she attempted suicide April 3, 2011 and the Missouri University staff couldn't get rid of her fast enough. They knew why she'd done it. They'd known why for exactly a year. Ms. Courey even tried to save herself by checking into an on-campus psychiatric center a week prior to the anniversary of the assault. The next day, during an assessment, she told her nurse she was raped by a football player. Two more doctors are made aware of the alleged assault. No one does anything and she is discharged to the motel where she attempts suicide.
Three days later, she's presented with a University Withdrawal Form in the Kansas City hospital where she was admitted because of the suicide attempt. She is transferred to a hospital in Boston. In May, she is sent a "Denial of Financial Aid Eligibility" letter. So, she's been withdrawn from school and can't go back. In June, she dies. In February 2012, the local newspaper does a story about Ms. Courey in which her parents mention the rape. University officials get copies but do nothing. Her parents are still under the illusion she was "mentally unstable" or had "borderline personality disorder", but they are curious, so in August of last year, they file for a copy of her records. Any and all records pertaining to their deceased daughter.
By February of 2013, they finally get the records. Thousands of pages. And now, they know about the rape and why the daughter they loved was gone. She was ignored. She told about the rape and no one, not one person, and all of them were in a position to say something to someone, like the police, did anything but give her sedatives and anti-depressants. Not a single footballer was questioned by the university, the coaches or the police. There's a player who knew and talked to the press. He even talked about it being more than one "man" involved. The police didn't know about it because the campus didn't report it. Her parents are understandably furious and going about trying to get to the bottom of the university's, campus security, campus health's, and police failures.
Regardless of what's found, a young woman is dead and there are people still trying to excuse the rapists! The point is, she wasn't mentally ill prior to the assault. She didn't have to die, but no one cared about anything but the Title IX statistics which are kept to
protect women. She told more than one person, no one listened and perhaps even more horribly, people knew and did nothing.
1:48 PM PT: Someone asked, so here's my background on the story. I started with the obituary and went from there. Local sources only.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/...
http://www.columbiatribune.com/...
http://www.columbiatribune.com/...
http://www.columbiatribune.com/...
And then a reporter at ESPN got this:
http://www.espn.go.com/...
and people finally started to ask questions of the University of Missouri
http://espn.go.com/...
And some scant hours after I published this, Google has articles from all over about it.
Comments are closed on this story.