Brandon Banks is a local kid from Gwynn Park High School in Brandywine, located in Southern Prince George's County, Maryland. JACKSON, Tennessee -- Brandon Banks, a Vanderbilt football player dismissed from the team two years ago and charged with rape, has been admitted to Lane College, President Logan Hampton said Monday night.
Lane head football coach Derrick Burroughs said Banks, a defensive back, is signing to join the Lane football team and is on campus.
Banks is accused with three other Vanderbilt football players in a June 2013 rape. He is charged with five counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery. His lawyer has entered a not guilty plea on his behalf, and Banks is awaiting trial.
Hampton said he and the school’s chaplain and executive vice president, the Rev. Dr. Moses Goldmon, asked themselves what good the college could do in this situation.
“If the church isn’t open to him, who is?” Hampton said. He later added, “The church has an opportunity and an obligation to try to do what it can.”
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