Rutgers Appoints Firm to Investigate Abuse Allegations

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In the wake of an NJ Advance Media report in which softball players at Rutgers University alleged abuse by head coach Kristen Butler and her husband, Marcus Smith, the university has appointed law firm Lowenstein Sandler to investigate. 

NJ.com reports that the appointment of the law firm comes days after university president Robert Barchi called for an independent investigation into the abuse allegations, wherein softball players claim they were forced to endure dangerously intense conditioning sessions and campaigns of abuse both physical and emotional. Barchi, however, also said that he was “confident” that Rutgers had met its duty to respond to the allegations “in accordance with the best practices of the NCAA and our own protocols.”

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