WACO, Texas — Former Baylor University President Ken Starr said Tuesday that he raised money on behalf of Shawn Oakman, the former Baylor football player who was recently acquitted of sexual assault, he told the Waco Tribune-Herald.
Starr said that he hosted a fundraiser at his home for the legal defense fund of Oakman, who was acquitted of rape last month. Starr says he couldn’t remember when the gathering was held.
Oakman, now 26, has said he wants to enter the NFL.
Starr was fired as Baylor’s president in 2016, after an outside investigation determined there was a “fundamental failure” in the way the school responded to sexual assault allegations.