i came here to refresh my memory after I saw that BE will be on the World Cup team in Riyadh
I guess I’m surprised on all accounts, but if he hasn’t had a sanction, he is free to carry on for USEF.
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Sooner or later it’s all going to come out. You don’t have to mark my words. You want to argue on here ? Do it with yourself.
I’m just going to sit back and know for a fact that all this stuff is going to see the light of day one day, and it should.
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It is still active in Civil Court. I can’t post a link because you have to have an account but here are a couple screenshots.
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Safesport not only does suspensions but other temporary measures. If you read down a ways, it says that suspensions are not done if they dont have sufficient evidence. If Graymaresrule is correct, they they dont have sufficient evidence. It is entirely possible that there are other restrictions in place that we dont know about. This doc also states that they do NOT publish info when the respondent is a minor. I believe B.E. was a minor at the time.
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Hmmmm;
Not for nothing, until there is a final decision in either/or the Safesport or the legal case, the rumors continue. There is always a shadow over him.
If the case is closed out due to “lack of evidence” and/or “witness decided not to testify” or the equivalent, while some people will then decide he didn’t do anything wrong, there will also be some people who always believe that he did commit this assault, and technicalities and a reticent witness enable him to get away with it.
I wonder if he does at least get some feedback that certain people don’t want to have anything to do with him, because of this. If it ever goes away, and how long it takes for that to happen.
Also interesting that there could be a strategy on his part of drawing this out to let the case fade with time, as is a frequent defense tactic generally. Rather than being promptly clear of it. If that were possible.
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It’s also a well known and well used tactic to ‘wear down’ the victim. This is why so many have a hard time coming forward or completing their cases. I don’t know how perpetrators or their enablers, and their lawyers face themselves every day. It’s disgusting what they do and what happens. If you haven’t seen the new Max series about child actors and the horrid SA they endured, you must. Because the equestrian world is rife with it as well……you just haven’t heard about it all in the equestrian world, and seen it compiled yet. You are in for quite a shock.
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From what I’ve read, the victim was just 14 years old and B.E was just a few months shy of his 18th birthday when the SA occurred.
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Oh dear. I guess I was over the target.
I don’t want to argue here, or with you, or myself.
Your original post was vague, and there was speculation about information I wasn’t aware of.
You said a lot, without saying anything. .
So I asked questions looking for specifics.
Meanwhile someone else did some research and answered one of the questions for you.
So we’ll see what happens, when the facts come out.
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Hmmm, Rather passive aggressive aren’t you? I see what your doing.
Still baiting for some sort of argument, kind of plain to see!
Another well-known tactic of defense counsel is to fight and drag stuff out forever, hoping that witness memories fail, they die or become impossible to locate, evidence is destroyed or lost, etc. This is what Bryan Kohberger’s defense appears to be doing. Usually, they do this when they have no alibis, no helpful witnesses and the evidence is stacked against them.
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….Or the victim is finally in a better place mentally and physically, and the defending lawyers openly vow to ‘tear apart’ the victim, and so the victim fears a major emotional/mental setback by taking it all the way through. In other words, the victim asks…’Will I be OK if I go through that’.
Meanwhile the perpetrator is quite gleeful that they are getting away with it.
Happens all the time.
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So true. The victim has their life ripped apart. The perpetrator goes on as if nothing happened.
Until the perpetrator gets a chance at a next victim … because why not, even if the victim tells, not much changes for the perpetrator. They can give deflecting answers to authorities again until it goes away. Again.
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Especially knowing that these types of cases usually do not have a great deal of evidence that lead to conviction(s). Many know their perpetrator won’t be convicted and do not want to suffer the agony of the court process. So terribly sad.
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And their word is not enough.
People have been convicted of murder based on shaky eyewitness testimony, with little evidence. But an assault and/or rape charge is one where the victim has to prove it with evidence. In most courts.
What I think is interesting is that obviously Safe Sport goes after the old guys with not much use left, but the young guy who might represent the US sucessfyully remains unharmed……
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This is a very common trend. During the me-too movement, the ones who were hauled through the courts and into prison were mostly past their prime earnings period, such as Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby. Some were actually already dead, like Roger Ailes.
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