Woman Slams UNC’s Response To Her Report Of Rape By Football Player

Gerry Broome / AP

A University of North Carolina Chapel Hill sophomore came forward Tuesday and said a university football player raped her on Valentine's Day this year.

Delaney Robinson, will hold a press conference alongside her father and her lawyer Tuesday afternoon to share her story and what she says was the ineffective investigation by the University of North Carolina Department of Public Safety and university officials.

In a press released issued by her lawyer, Robinson said she was raped by Allen Artis, a UNC junior and linebacker on the football team, at Ram Village apartments on UNC's campus on February 14.

"For more than six months we have asked the University and the Orange County District Attorney's office to hold Delaney's rapist accountable for his actions," Robinson's lawyer, Denise Branch said in a statement. "At every turn we have been met with discouragement and delay."

According to the press release, Robinson went to the hospital and reported the alleged rape to the Department of Public Safety, who, she said, quizzed her on what she was wearing and how much she drank.

Robinson admits to drinking that night but added "that doesn't give anyone the right to violate me. I did not deserve to be raped."

The UNC sophomore said her "humiliation turned to anger" when she listened to recorded interviews between Artis and Department of Public Safety investigators.

"They provided reassurances to him when he became upset," Robinson said in a statement. "They even laughed with him when he told them how many girls' phone numbers he had managed to get on the same night he raped me. They told him, 'don't sweat it. Just keep on living your life and playing football.'"

Branch, Robinson's lawyer, said in a statement that UNC's Title IX office has not yet rendered a decision in the case, despite the investigation having ended three months ago.

UNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

According to Branch, "Robinson requested self-sworn warrants for misdemeanor assault on a female and misdemeanor sexual battery as a result of the Orange County District Attorney's refusal to prosecute the case despite sufficient physical evidence."

The warrants were issued for Artis, Branch said.

"I did everything a rape victim is supposed to do," Robinson said in a statement. "I reported it. I allowed the rape kit to be taken. I gave a statement. I cooperated with law enforcement and the Title IX office. But six months later the University has done nothing."

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