Former Vanderbilt football player Cory Batey was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday for raping an unconscious woman after the victim told the court, "it will never be possible for anyone to put into words how this has affected me."
Batey was convicted in April of aggravated rape, which carries a minimum 15-year sentence in Tennessee. He is one of four players accused of raping the woman in 2013.
The 22-year-old Batey and Brandon Vandenburg were convicted last year, but the verdicts were thrown out because a juror did not reveal he was a victim of statutory rape, The Associated Press reported. They have both been convicted a second time, and two other players are awaiting trial.
The four players took pictures of the rape with their cellphones, and one of them videotaped the assault and sent footage to friends, according to The Associated Press.
The woman, now 24, was a neuroscience and economics major when she was attacked in a dorm on the Nashville campus three years ago, the AP reported.
"I was fearful of giving a victim impact statement at all because I know that after three years and everything that has happened, I can never do it justice, and I’m scared of that failure,” she said in court in Nashville on Friday, according to the Tennessean.
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