By Brian Maass. CBS4 - Grant Neal, a promising student-athlete at Colorado State University-Pueblo, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the college and the federal government after he was indefinitely suspended for what he describes as a consensual sexual act with his girlfriend. Neal was a champion high school wrestler and outstanding football player at Regis Jesuit High School before deciding to attend CSU-Pueblo on scholarship.
He planned to obtain a medical degree. But he said his dreams were destroyed last October. An ongoing friendship with a female trainer for the CSU-Pueblo football team progressed. On Oct. Afterward, Neal said the woman performed oral sex on him in his car. In text messages afterward the woman told Neal her roommates "said they saw us doing stuff. After a short amount of time the two students ended up in her bedroom, undressed.
The two were making sexual contact when Neal said "She was very adamant in pulling me close and wanting me to have intercourse with her. At the beginning, when I was lying on top I didn't have a condom. She never said no and never told me to stop. The next morning, Oct. When she learned the woman had sex with a prominent football player, she surmised her friend had been raped and reported that to university authorities.
Neal's girlfriend texted him: 'I've been running around all day talking to so many people, trying to make things right!!! One of the other Athletic Training students screwed me over! She went behind my back and told my AT advisor stuff that wasn't true!!! I'm trying so hard to fix it all. I want to tell you what's going on. Recognizing that something was going wrong, Neal met with the woman later that afternoon and recorded their conversation on his phone.
In a recording obtained and reviewed by CBS4, the woman can be heard directly exonerating Neal of any rape accusation. I may be acting like the typical girl who just got raped, but I hope you know I don't think I did," the woman said.
