Around the same time that Teo's real grandmother died, it was reported that Lennay Kekua (who was supposedly Teo's girlfriend) also died of leukemia.
This got Te'o tons of sympathy as his team was undefeated in the regular season and made it to the BCS bowl game.
Now, there is some evidence that Kekua didn't even exist!
It looks like we've been scammed!
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However, there is a MUCH WORSE SCANDAL surrounding the Notre Dame football team that didn't get the attention it deserved
You see, one of Notre Dame football players raped a woman attending a nearby college! She later committed suicide!
(The following article was published last week)
http://www.thenation.com/blog/172042/notre-dame-and-penn-state-two-rape-scandals-only-one-cry-justice
As unbeaten Notre Dame prepares to play in tonight’s national championship game against Alabama, the sports media have chosen not to discuss the fact that this football team has two players on its roster suspected of sexual assault and rape; two players whose crimes have been ignored; two players whose accusers felt harassed and intimidated; two players whose presence on the field Monday night should be seen as a national disgrace.
The main reason this is taking place is because their accusers are not pressing charges. One cannot, because she is dead. Nineteen-year-old Lizzy Seeberg, a student at neighboring St. Mary’s College, took her own life after her claims of being assaulted in a dorm room were met with threats and indifference. The other accuser, despite description of a brutal rape, won’t file charges—“absolutely 100%”—because of what Seeberg experienced.
Lizzy Seeberg was a first semester freshman and from a family of Notre Dame graduates. After an evening when she socialized with members of the football team, Lizzy came forward with accusations of a sexual assault. After writing out a statement and submitting to medical attention, she received texts from another member of the team that read, “Don’t do anything you would regret” and “Messing with Notre Dame football is a bad idea.”
To show that she wouldn’t rock the boat, Lizzy was compelled by her peers to go to the next game, stencil the Notre Dame logos into her face and cheer her assaulter. As Melinda Henneberger, a Washington Post reporter and Notre Dame alum who has investigated the sexual assaults on campus extensively, wrote, “On Sept. 7, she wrote her therapist, ‘I can’t get out of this f*!#ing hole I’ve started to dig. I’m trying to go to sleep because I’m sick with a cold and need to get rest but I can’t stop thinking about taking all the pills I can find. I’m ready to check out because this sucks.’ She promised [her therapist] she would never follow through. But then, on Sept. 9, she had a panic attack during a mandatory freshman orientation on sexual assault."
That panic attack preceded her suicide. If in life Lizzy Seeberg suffered at the hands of not only players on the team but the people in power who ignored her pleas, in death these forces have gone further and slandered her to a shocking degree. They have claimed Lizzy was a “troubled girl” who was “all over the boy”, as well as mentally unstable. As Henneberger wrote, “The damage to her memory since then is arguably more of a violation than anything she reported to police — and all the more shocking because it was not done thoughtlessly, by a kid in a moment he can’t take back, but on purpose, by the very adults who heavily market the moral leadership of a Catholic institution. Notre Dame’s mission statement could not be clearer: ‘The university is dedicated to the pursuit and sharing of truth for its own sake.’ But in this case, the university did just the opposite.”
School President Reverend John I. Jenkins has shown no public regard or concern for the fact that his school has become a place where women alumni warn prospective female students that rape has become a part of campus life. Football coach Brian Kelly, to his shame, treated questions about Lizzy’s suicide as a joke.
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A real woman got raped, got intimidated by her rapist's teammates and committed suicide!
Dont you think that is much much worse than Manti Teo's "fake girlfriend drama"
But we all want to talk about someone else's fake girlfriend?
Notre Dame didn't take those cases seriously. The coach didn't even bother to take the issue seriously.
IF that's how they want to act, fine then, karma bit last week when they lost to Alabama!
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photo from http://www.thenation.com/blog/172042/notre-dame-and-penn-state-two-rape-scandals-only-one-cry-justice
Lizzy Seeberg, courtesy of the Seeberg Family
This is the REAL LIFE woman who got raped by a Notre Dame player who couldn't take the pain anymore and committed suicide!
If your daughter, niece, sister, mother, etc got treated the way she was treated, wouldn't you want real revenge against the rapists and the punks who sided with the rapists? Wouldn't you be pissed off that the coaches and the admin of Notre Dame didnt' give a crap?
