A 74-year-old grandmother broke down in tears on Friday when she described to lawmakers how she was allegedly sexually harassed by then-LSU star who walked back in 2017 Derrius Guice while working at security in the Superdome – and how the school left nothing when she was notified. .
“I’m not just here for myself,” said Gloria Scott, adding that she represents other women who have had similar experiences, or maybe in the future if she didn’t say anything. “I just had to come here today and let you all know that LSU is hiding a lot of things. All kinds of things are happening on that campus. He signed me. “
Guice was a 2018 second-round draft pick for the Washington Football Team that spent two seasons in the NFL. He was taken away last August after allegations of strangulation, assault, strangulation and property destruction in connection with three alleged domestic violence incidents. He is accused of three sexual assaults during his time at LSU and has denied all charges through an attorney.
Scott’s allegation was previously known, but she retold her account on Friday for the public to hear during the Louisiana Senate Select Committee on Women and Children. The alleged incident is said to have occurred when Guice and his friends were attending a high school football game, she said, according to multiple published reports.
“I love women like you, older women, because you know you all love us young men, all of you,” Scott told her, according to USA Today. “And you know you want this body.”
Scott said she asked Guice to quit, but he only got more vulgar, including rubbing his body up and down from his chest to his genitals with a big smile on his face, when he found out she was a grandmother.
“I was so hurt, and I was so nervous and upset,” she said. “In all my life I had never let a man or child talk to me as disrespectfully as he did.”
The incident was mentioned in a 148-page report released by a law firm hired to investigate LSU’s response to sexual misconduct cases. The report has since led to the departure of Kansas football coach Les Miles and Oregon President F. King Alexander, both of whom held similar roles at LSU for most of the years studied.
Scott said she informed current LSU football coach Ed Orgeron of the incident, and he offered to put Guice on the phone to apologize and ask her to “please forgive”. Orgeron denied ever speaking to Scott.
According to the law firm’s findings, Guice was never punished for this alleged incident or rape allegations while at LSU. Scott said she also reported her harassment incident to the police, who did not follow up.
Scott said the bullying lasted for four minutes, while Guice’s unidentified friends laughed, until the group walked away. She claimed she later moved from her regular security post at high school games with a warning from her executives, “If they find out you’re suing Derrius, the footballers can get a response.”
She remembered the question, “What do you mean by a response to me? “I am the victim.”
Louisiana lawmakers stood for calling LSU to account.