A former Vanderbilt football player now knows how long he will be behind bars.
Brandon Vandenburg was sentenced to 17 years on Friday for a June retrial conviction on charges that he raped an unconscious female on campus three years ago.
Vandenburg's sentence was short of the 25-year maximum he could have been given. He was originally convicted in January 2015, along with former teammate Corey Batey. A mistrial was later declared.
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The victim did not attend the sentencing but did write a statement delivered by her attorney, Jan Norman.
"Please do not use my absence as an excuse for leniency, as it in no way diminishes the profound and insidious impact of Mr. Vandenburg on me and my life,” Norman read, via The Tennessean . “I still ask that he receive the full sentence allowed under the law for orchestrating the sustained 30-minute gang rape against me, a defenseless woman who trusted him.
“The minimum sentence is not enough for what this man did to me."
The judge gave Vandenburg a sentence two years longer than that for Batey, saying he “was a leader in the attack and betrayed the woman’s trust.”