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Report: Boise State disciplines 3 after probe into sexual assaults

Three Boise State redshirt freshmen won't be part of the program in 2016.

According to a report by the Idaho Statesman, Marquis Hendrix and Donzale Roddie were expelled and Darreon Jackson was suspended for the year following a Title IX investigation into sexual assault allegations. The players have not been criminally charged in the incidents, which allegedly took place in the second half of 2015.

From the Statesman:

In incidents Aug. 19, Sept. 26 and Oct. 2 of last year, the alleged victim said she was coerced into performing oral sex on the three players, or in one incident, on a recruit during his official visit. The woman first met with Kerrick in person Nov. 30. She was interviewed in February in depth about the majority of details in the complaint.

The woman was dating Hendrix before the August incident and said he "tried to intimidate and control using force pressure and through repeated texts." She said the first allegation stemmed from when he pressured her into performing a sex act on Roddie.

In the second alleged incident, after seven different days of text messages initiated by Roddie to come over to his dorm room, she did so, stating it would hopefully get him to stop messaging her. While in his room, he removed his pants and sat in a chair that blocked her exit. She said she felt intimidated and unable to leave unless she relented.

The third allegation involved the recruit and a request from Hendrix that she needed to "do us a favor." She said she was told to go to a room where a recruit was waiting to show him a good time. The alleged victim added that "It was easier to do it and get out than keep resisting."

Hendrix said the woman didn't say "no" before any of the alleged incidents and didn't suggest or encourage her to perform sexual acts on anyone else.

Hendrix is a linebacker from Ocala, Florida, and was a three-star recruit in the class of 2015. Roddie was also a three-star recruit and is a cornerback from Compton, California. Jackson, a safety from Derby, Kansas, was a three-star recruit and the No. 9 player in the state of Kansas according to Rivals.

As part of Title IX guidelines, schools are required to investigate all allegations of sexual assault. Hendrix's father said he felt his son's civil rights were violated. A Colorado State-Pueblo player suspended after a Title IX investigation has filed a suit against his school and the government saying he was wrongfully suspended.

“I’m extremely upset, upset how those boys were treated,” Hendrix’s father, Jack, told the Statesman. “We feel their civil rights were violated, that they were interrogated, not given a chance to truly defend themselves. There are some promiscuous young ladies hiding behind Title IX, and there’s a vendetta against football by those investigators. There was no police investigation, or no repercussions for her actions.”

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