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   LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former student is suing a Southern California community   
   college and the football player convicted of raping her, accusing the school   
   of allowing the young man to attend school despite a previous sexual assault   
   conviction.   
      
   The woman’s attorneys announced the lawsuit Monday against Cerritos College,   
   the school’s dean of student services and the now-former player, 22-year-old   
   Kishawn Holmes.   
      
   The lawsuit accuses Cerritos of accepting Holmes to the school and its   
   football program even though he was convicted of rape in 2014 when he was 17.   
      
   “Despite having actual knowledge of Holmes’ conviction for rape,   
   absolutely no safeguards were put into place to protect (the student),”   
   according to the lawsuit, filed March 12 in Los Angeles County Superior Court.   
      
   University spokeswoman Miya Walker said the school doesn’t comment on   
   pending litigation.   
      
   “While the incident did not occur at the college, we take the well-being of   
   our students very seriously and have policies and procedures on student   
   conduct, and require sexual violence and harassment prevention trainings,”   
   Walker said in a statement.   
      
   A jury found Holmes guilty Thursday of raping the student in 2016. He faces up   
   to 18 years in prison.   
      
   The victim was an athletic trainer who performed physical therapy on Holmes   
   while he was a starting running back on the football team.   
      
   Now 21, she said that Holmes told her he needed a massage for a back injury,   
   and the two agreed to meet at his apartment for the treatment on Sept. 8,   
   2016, according to the lawsuit.   
      
   It was there that Holmes raped her, the lawsuit said.   
      
   Although the victim told a friend about the rape after it happened, she   
   didn’t report it for another three months because she feared she would be   
   removed from the school’s student athletic training program, the lawsuit   
   said.   
      
   When she did tell her parents about the attack, they reported it to the school   
   on Jan. 24, 2017, but Cerritos didn’t initiate an investigation until two   
   weeks after that, the lawsuit said.   
      
   The lawsuit said that Cerritos allowed Holmes to remain on the football team   
   while refusing a request by the victim to limit her access to him. She ended   
   up withdrawing from the program.   
      
   It was not until November 2017 — 10 months after learning of the rape   
   allegation — that the school finished its investigation and found Holmes   
   responsible for sexual assault, according to the lawsuit.   
      
   If the trainer had been aware that Holmes was a convicted rapist, “she would   
   have never agreed to be alone with him,” her attorney, Kathryn Greer, said   
   in a statement.   
      
   https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/ex-student-sues-califo   
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