Bring It To Jerome

The episode begins with Jenny Dial Creech's moving reading of one woman’s struggle with a Baylor University system whose “leadership challenges and communications issues hindered enforcement of rules and policies, and created a cultural  perception that football was above the rules,” according to the findings of fact of an investigation by the law firm Pepper Hamilton. Creech has interviewed or read court documents from cases of more than a dozen women who say they were attacked or sexually assaulted at Baylor and received little, if any, assistance from the university following the alleged attacks. In some cases, these women say they were dissuaded from pursuing criminal charges, and all but rebuked for becoming victims. The stories are gut-wrenching. Creech shares details on her outstanding reporting effort, and the story behind the story, that provides many details and accounts from alleged victims that have not been previously published.