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The 911 call could not have sounded more urgent: A man was beating a woman holding a baby outside their apartment as she tried to leave.

“You just need to get someone out here right away because it is really bad,” the caller said, adding that the man was “punching” the mother and “grabbing the little baby around the arm.”

By the time the police arrived shortly after 3 a.m. one day last January, the couple were back inside. The 19-year-old woman acknowledged that she and her boyfriend had argued, and that he had not wanted her to leave. But she insisted nothing physical had occurred.

Officers responding to a domestic violence call have a legal duty to investigate thoroughly, seek written statements from witnesses and from the victim, instruct the victim on how to seek help and, finally, forward their report to the local domestic abuse crisis center. But, according to their brief report on the episode, the officers did none of that.

If the allegations are true, then that means there is a very simple and brutal calculation in effect in Tallahassee and there's no other way to put it: keeping a dynamic quarterback on the field is far more important than one raped girl.

There's no way to even describe how sick that is.

Though Winston's situation is dismal enough, the New York Times released a major story on Friday which details allegations of lawlessness against multiple football players as well as pointing out that when the university failed to hold an internal disciplinary hearing about the Winston allegations, it violated federal law. Pressure is building fast.

Mark Richt has lost control of Tallahassee  :)