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Baylor University is reviewing its handling of sexual a sault cases amid accusations that the school was unresponsive to claims by a sault victims on campus.An investigation by chronicledthe story of a female student, Tanya, who was sexually a saulted by former defensive end Tevin Elliott in March 2012.Elliott, who was accused of a saultingfive other women,was later convicted on two counts of sexual a sault in January 2014 and sentencedto Matt Joyce Jersey 20 years in prison.MORE: | As for Tanya, the incident left her distre sedand distracted. Despite her efforts to get help, thecampus police refusedto a sist her since the a sault took place off campus."They didn't just not respond; they responded by turning me away and telling me that it was not po sible for me to receive help from them,"Tanya said. "Do I think the administration is sincere? No. Because then they would have acted differently in Sam's Ukwuachu's case.I don't think that they are sincere."Another football player, defensive Luke Jackson Jersey endSam Ukwuachu, was accused of raping a Baylor soccer player in October 2013 as Elliot's case was nearing trial.Ukwuachuwasn't indicted until June 2014 but was later andsentenced to six months in jail, 400 hours of community service and 10 years' felony probation. He is appealing the conviction.The ESPN investigation found that school officials failed tosufficiently investigate allegations of sexual a sault and often failed to provide support to those who report the alleged a sault. Austin Riley Jersey The probe also discoveredthe school tookmore than three years to comply with an April 2011 directive from the U.S. Department of Education that emphasized the need for schools to employ a full-time Title IX coordinator. Among other duties, that person is supposed to investigate allegations of sexual violence, and provide security, counseling services and academic help to those who report a saults.Baylor declined to make requested coaches or administrators available to comment to ESPN, and new Title IX coordinator Patty Crawford would speak only in general terms. She said the school has initiated an outside review of how prior cases were handled."We do want to be our best, and we' Josh Tomlin Jersey re always wanting to be an improvement from yesterday," she said.Michele Davis, a former Baylor advisory board member andsexual a sault nurse examiner for McLennan County, claimsthe university has been aware of the problem regardingrising sexual a sault accusations connected to athletes for at least a few years."Baylor has more sexual a sault cases that we do exams on compared to the other schools with the same approximate population," .Davis added thatshe sees about eight Baylor students each year who have been the victim of sexual a sault, and that athletes make up about 25 to 50 percent of the alleged perpetrators."Everybody knew what was going on, but nobody helped us," Tanya' Ronald Acuna Jr. Jersey s mother said. "No one reached out to us, not a phone call, not a letter, nothing."Their football team is their priority. The money that comes to them is their priority.You cannot serve two masters. Theirs is money. They don't care about their students. They don't care about the victims."