A Division I Committee on Infractions hearing panel did not find Baylor guilty for failing to report and address sexual and interpersonal violence on its campus, according to a release published Wednesday. However, the panel handed down punishments for impermissible benefits given to a football player for an academic violation and for a former Baylor employee failing to cooperate in the investigation.
The investigation primarily examined how Baylor protected football players from the school's disciplinary processes and didn't report allegations of misconduct from 2011 to 2016. In 2016, the university regents said that 19 former football players were accused of sexual or domestic assault by 17 women during the five-year span and four of those instances were gang rapes.