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The Daily OrangeSPD looks into alleged sexual assault
By Lauren Bertolini
Posted: 10/6/08, 12:35 AM EST Section: News
The Syracuse Police Department's Abused Person's Unit is in the process of investigating an alleged sexual assault of a female Syracuse University student, according to a SPD news release.
Police responded to the SU campus around 5 a.m. Friday, immediately beginning an investigation with the help of the SU Department of Public Safety and the Onondaga County District Attorney's office, according to the release.
No other specifics about the incident have been released.
"It's very early on in the investigation so we haven't yet figured out what occurred," said Sgt. Tom Connellan of the SPD.
In an e-mail sent to The Daily Orange Thursday afternoon, university spokesman Kevin Morrow said there is no "university investigative action" at this time, so as not to interfere with the Abused Person's Unit's process.
The e-mail continued, "As the investigation is in its early stages and no determination has yet been made that a crime has in fact occurred, the university discourages speculation on what happened and who may have been involved."
WTVH-TV reported Wednesday evening that as many as four members of the SU football team are under investigation for the allegations of sexual misconduct.
The SU athletics department deferred all comment on the case to Morrow.
"We have an ongoing investigation right now and there is a lot of innuendo out there and some erroneous reporting at that," Connellan said.
-Sports editor John Clayton contributed to this report.
lrbertol@syr.edu
Police responded to the SU campus around 5 a.m. Friday, immediately beginning an investigation with the help of the SU Department of Public Safety and the Onondaga County District Attorney's office, according to the release.
No other specifics about the incident have been released.
"It's very early on in the investigation so we haven't yet figured out what occurred," said Sgt. Tom Connellan of the SPD.
In an e-mail sent to The Daily Orange Thursday afternoon, university spokesman Kevin Morrow said there is no "university investigative action" at this time, so as not to interfere with the Abused Person's Unit's process.
The e-mail continued, "As the investigation is in its early stages and no determination has yet been made that a crime has in fact occurred, the university discourages speculation on what happened and who may have been involved."
WTVH-TV reported Wednesday evening that as many as four members of the SU football team are under investigation for the allegations of sexual misconduct.
The SU athletics department deferred all comment on the case to Morrow.
"We have an ongoing investigation right now and there is a lot of innuendo out there and some erroneous reporting at that," Connellan said.
-Sports editor John Clayton contributed to this report.
lrbertol@syr.edu
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