Vanderbilt Alleged Rape Victim Initially Denies She Was Assaulted By Football Players

A woman who police said was raped on June 23 while unconscious by four Vanderbilt University football players initially denied being assaulted because she was dating one of the players accused, The Daily Mail reported.

The alleged unidentified victim was reportedly romantically involved with Brandon Vandenburg, for two weeks before the attack. She initially told police she believed he wouldn't have let her be taken advantage of, The Daily Mail reported.

"(The victim) advised she trusted Vandenburg and he would not let anything happen to her," Metro police Sgt. Mike Shreeve wrote in an investigative report, which was recently shown to The Tennessean by a person who asked not to be identified.

She did not have any recollection of being raped and found out about the alleged assault when she heard about the pictures and videos of the three players "attacking her" while she was unconscious.

"(The victim) advised she had been drinking heavily and has very little/no memory of events that took place ... Advised she does not think she was sexually assaulted did not 'feel' like she had sex," the report stated.

According to USA Today, the victim declined to undergo a rape kit test until she was counseled by a police victim's advocate. Surveillance footage provided by the university is one of the key pieces of evidence backing the police charges.

The footage released shows three black men and one white man carrying a young woman wearing a short skirt, which did not cover her through the whole video, her "private area was sometimes exposed."

That skirt and the other pieces of clothing she was wearing on the night of the attack are being used as evidence, according to The Daily Mail.

The Daily Mail reported investigators working on the case believe that Vandenburg brought his the unconscious young woman to his room and had sex with her without consent, "with three of his teammates present at one point or another in the course of the night."

Unnamed objects were also used to sexually penetrate the unconscious woman. Vandenburg allegedly used his cell phone to take graphic photos and record video, which he later sent to four people, according to Buzzfeed.