A jury has convicted a former Vanderbilt football player of encouraging his teammates to rape an unconscious woman he had been dating. The retrial comes amid a furore over the six month sentence a former Stanford swimmer was given for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. It took jurors just over four hours of deliberation before finding Brandon Vandenburg guilty on multiple counts of aggravated rape and aggravated sexual battery. Vandenberg's lawyers told jurors that the other players were on the woman as soon as they got her in the room. Four former players were all charged in the case but only two were accused of raping and sexually assaulting the woman.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 19, 2016 02:48 UTC