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Layshia Clarendon sues Cal, alleging sexual assault

Former Cal WBB star Layshia Clarendon has filed a civil lawsuit against the University of California regents due to a sexual assault that she is alleging occurred during her freshman year. She is accusing Mohamed Muqtar, a Cal graduate in 1987 and an employee for “more than 25 years”; Muqtar is currently assistant athletic director for student services

According to Clarendon, Muqtar is known as “The Mayor” on the Cal campus and frequently hangs out with student-athletes off campus, often paying for dinners. During her freshman year, Clarendon, then 18, said Muqtar invited her back to his apartment, where he allegedly followed her into the bathroom and assaulted her.