{"id":18263,"date":"2018-12-11T22:53:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T22:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2018\/12\/11\/texas-judge-allows-former-baylor-frat-president-to-sidestep-rape-charge\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T22:53:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T22:53:14","slug":"texas-judge-allows-former-baylor-frat-president-to-sidestep-rape-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/texas-judge-allows-former-baylor-frat-president-to-sidestep-rape-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Judge Allows Former Baylor Frat President To Sidestep Rape Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n A judge in Texas on Monday accepted a plea bargain that allows Jacob Anderson, a former Baylor University fraternity president accused of raping a woman at a fraternity party, to avoid serving jail time, marking at least the third time the judge has approved probation for men accused of sexually assaulting Baylor students.<\/p>\n

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A judge has accepted a plea agreement under which the former president of a Baylor University fraternity, accused of raping a female student, will serve no jail time and won’t have to register as a sex offender.<\/p>\n

The deal allowed Jacob Walter Anderson, 23, of Garland, Texas, to plead no contest on Monday to the lesser charge of unlawful restraint. In pleading no contest, a defendant does not admit guilt and does not offer a defense. <\/p>\n

The woman who brought the charges expressed outrage at the decision. <\/p>\n

“He stole my body, virginity and power over my body,” she said in court, according to a family spokesman, the Associated Press reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I not only have to live with his rape and the repercussions of the rape, I have to live with the knowledge that the McLennan County justice system is severely broken,” the family statement quoted the woman as saying. “I have to live with the fact that after all these years and everything I have suffered, no justice was achieved.”<\/p>\n

The McLennan County’s district attorney’s office, which dismissed four counts of sexual assault against Anderson, told the alleged victim’s family it was not confident enough to take the case to trial, according to NPR’s Wade Goodwyn. <\/p>\n