Originally Posted by kane

That is messed up.

There was a similar case involving Marcus Dixon a while back. At the time he was a senior in high school and was a football star with a nearly 4.0 grade point average and scholarship offers from a ton of schools. He accepted one to Vanderbilt.

One afternoon he had sex with a girl (she was white he was black) from his school. He was 18 and she was 3 months shy of 16. Two days later she reported that he had raped her. The story that went around was that her dad was a racist, found out she had lost her virginity to a black guy and was furious.

There was a trial, but he was found innocent. However, since he was more than 2 years older than her and she was a minor he was found guilty of statutory rape and aggravated child molestation. He was sentenced to 10 years.

Sometime into his sentence the state changed their sentencing guidelines, but didn't make it retroactive. Among the sentences they changed were the things he was charged with. Eventually he was able to to be released after serving about 2 years.

On the positive the college honored his scholarship and he eventually ended up in the NFL.