Written by ESPN investigative reporters VIOLATED narrates the sexual abuse by members of Baylor’s football group as well as the university’s attempt to silence the victims. Some of the proceeds will end up being donated to RAINN to greatly help fight sexual mistreatment.

Throughout its history, Baylor University has offered itself as something special: As the world’s most significant Baptist university, it was unabashedly Christian. It condemned any sex outside of marriage, and alcohol consumption was grounds for dismissal..READING MORE on the subject of Violated: Exposing Rape in Baylor University amid College Football’s Sexual Assault Problems Students weren’t also allowed to dance about campus until 1996.

During the last several years, however, Baylor officials had been concealing a dark secret: Female students were becoming sexually assaulted at an alarming rate. Baylor administrators did very little to help victims, and their assailants hardly ever faced discipline for his or her abhorrent behavior.

Finally, after a set of high-profile criminal cases involving football players, an independent examination of Baylor’s handling of allegations of intimate assault led to sweeping changes, including the unprecedented ouster of its chief executive, athletics director, and popular, extremely successful football coach.

For several years, campuses and sports activities teams across the country have been plagued with accusations of intimate violence, and they’ve been criticized for the way they responded to the students involved. But Baylor stands out. A tradition reigned where people thought that any kind of sex, especially violent non-consensual sex, basically ‘doesn’t happen right here.’ Yet it was occurring. Many people within Baylor’s leadership knew about it. And they chose not to react.

Paula Lavigne and Tag Schlabach weave collectively the complex – and at times contradictory – narrative of how a university and soccer plan ascending in nationwide prominence came crashing down amidst the tales of female after woman arriving forward explaining their assaults, and a school system they found indifferent with their pain.