In 1993, when his player, Christian Peter, sexually assaulted Miss Nebraska Natalie Kuijvenhoven, George [magazine] reported that Osborne minimized the serious nature of the assault, questioned her motivation, making up a baseless story that her boyfriend had been cut from the team. After convicted and sentenced, Osborne suspended Peter for only a practice game.A real paragon of virtue there!When Kathy Redmond reported Peter's two rapes against her, Osborne questioned her motivation – fabricating allegations that her sister had been raped, too, and she wanted the same attention from family members as her sister. He also minimized the brutal assault by player, Lawrence Phillips on his former girlfriend, attacking the eye-witness account of Sandy Worm, who saw him drag her by the hair down three flights of stairs and then pounding her head against the wall.
"There was no brutal beating," Osborne told George.
None of this is to mention Osborne-defended players (like Tyrone Williams and Riley Washington) who shot at people or (like Jason Jenkins) took out a victim's eye. "I'm certain there was no intent to hit anyone with gunfire," said Osborne. According to George, "Lincoln County Attorney Gary Lacy complained publicly that in a string of cases Osborne had used 'his influence to disrupt the criminal justice system.'" Interfering with investigations, obstructing justice.
Must be true-— no reporter would make up or embellish a story due to hatred of a Football program......nooooooo...we can always rely of the medie for the truth......
Dr Osborne is a good man ..I’m certain that these players were not angels but neither did Dt Tom feild a team full of animals...but jealuousy of a program or hatred of Footbal in general will make anyone see just the bad or even only the worse side of a situation.