What a piece of shit.
Guess I'll be the one to bring it up. Does everyone still believe his version of the Seeberg incident? I realize they're separate issues but kicking a dog to death shows a violent side I never knew he had.
That's the elephant in the room, isn't it? How do you view the situation now given this and what happened with him in high school?
I don't know if anyone ever really believed "his version", per se. But as the DA said when not pursuing charges... her version(s) did not match with physical evidence. Specifically, the events as she laid them out in her final statement could not have occurred... because for Shembo to stop mid assault to answer his phone would've required a phone call be received during the time in question. And phone records conclusively proved that he never received any communication then.
Her account literally states something along the lines of he starts kissing her, then starts feeling her breasts which is when she gets fearful/uncomfortable, and then as that is happening his phone starts ringing... he then pushes her off of him to go answer the phone... and that's the end. None of us will ever know exactly what happened there, but we do know:
1. That never happened, because he never got up and answered a phone call, period.
2. That the rape kit returned no physical evidence where there could or should have been some per her account(s).
3. As much as ND haters will scream otherwise, there was never an accusation of rape and no sex occurred... period.
Given those facts I'm comfortable with him not getting thrown out of the University or prosecuted at the time.
HOWEVER... it also seems reasonable to conclude that even if her accounts(s) weren't accurate something bad still might've happened. He might've gotten pushy or forceful, who knows. We'll never really know. He's clearly now established a pattern of behavior that does not exemplify emotional control.* Moral of the story? ND would've been much better off from a PR standpoint doing a "Duke" and throwing Shembo under the bus regardless of evidence. From now until the end of time people will second guess their handling of him.
*Of course, assuming the allegations with the dog are true.
