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Hammad, who is suspended indefinitely by the school following his arrest Monday, was first accused last fall of sexually assaulting two different woman, ESPN.com reported Thursday.
One woman filed a complaint with Baylor’s Title IX office after Hammad invited her into her apartment last September and forced her to perform a sexual act, according to the report. She said she was too scared to report the incident to police, the report said, but when another woman came forward and said she was also assaulted by Hammad, the two decided to go to the Title IX office together.
“I thought Title IX was like the school’s version of the police,” the woman said.
The other woman didn’t want to file a separate claim, but wanted her story to back up the woman filing the complaint.
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The office issued Hammad a no-contact order, according to ESPN, but the woman said he confronted her three days later on why he was being investigated. She and two witnesses reported the incident to police, but declined to press charges.
According to the woman, Hammad kept harassing her and asking if she reported him to Title IX. She was shocked to see him on the field several days later against Texas Tech.
“We felt we were being betrayed,” she said. “It’s like they were rewarding him by playing him and starting him in the game. I texted the police officer … and said: ‘Why the hell is he starting? He broke a no-contact order.’”
She said the officer apologized but couldn’t give her an answer.
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Upon hearing Hammad’s arrest for stalking, the woman said the situation was “disheartening.”
“This is all Baylor’s fault,” she said. “Had they taken my case slightly more seriously and put some kind of ‘warning’ on him, this wouldn’t have happened. … The mannerisms that she described are so similar. It’s not just something I wanted to remember.”
