A 74-year-old grandmother burst into tears on Friday as she described to lawmakers how she was allegedly sexually harassed by then-LSU star Derrius Guice in 2017 while working security at the Superdome, and how the school did not he did nothing about it when he was informed. .
“I’m not here just for me,” Gloria Scott said, adding that she represents other women who have had similar experiences or could have in the future if she didn’t speak. “I just had to come here today and let you all know that LSU is hiding a lot of things. There are many things on this campus. It scared me. “
Guice was a draft pick for the 2018 second round of the Washington football team that spent two seasons in the NFL. He was cut last August after charges of strangulation, assault, battery and destruction of property related to three alleged incidents of domestic violence. He is accused of sexually assaulting him three times during his time at LSU and has denied all allegations through a lawyer.
Scott’s allegation was previously known, but he re-explained his account on Friday for the public to hear during the Louisiana Senate Selection Committee on Women and Children. According to several published reports, the alleged incident was said to have occurred when Guice and his friends were attending a high school football game.
“I like meeting women like you, older women, because you all know we all like all young men,” Scott Guice told USA Today. “And, you know you want that body.”
Scott said he asked Guice to stop, but he only became more vulgar, including rubbing his body up and down his chest to his genitals with a big smile on his face, when he discovered it was a grandmother.
“I was so hurt and I was so nervous and upset,” she said. “In all my life, I’ve never had a man or child talk to me as disrespectfully as he did.”
The incident was mentioned in a 148-page report published by a law firm hired to investigate LSU’s response to cases of sexual misconduct. The report has since led to the departure of Kansas football coach Les Miles and Oregon President F. King Alexander, both in the same roles at LSU for most of the years. investigated.
Scott said he reported the incident to current LSU football coach Ed Orgeron, and offered to put Guice on the phone to apologize, asking him to “forgive.” Orgeron denied ever speaking to Scott.
Guice was never disciplined for this alleged incident or for allegations of rape while at LSU, according to the findings of the law firm. Scott said he also took his harassment incident to police, who did not follow up.
Scott said the harassment lasted four minutes, with Guice’s unidentified friends laughing, until the group walked away. She claimed she was later moved from her normal safe place to high school games with a warning from her supervisors: “Well, if they find out you’re accusing Derrius, football players could have a reaction.”
He remembered asking, “What does a reaction to me mean? I’m the victim.”
Louisiana lawmakers pledged to hold LSU accountable.