Final Vanderbilt Rape Defendant Pleads Guilty

NASHVILLE, TN -- Jaborian "Tip" McKenzie, the fourth and final former Vanderbilt University football player to go to court for the 2013 of a woman inside a campus dorm room, pleaded guilty Monday as part of a deal with prosecutors.

McKenzie, 23, pleaded guilty to facilitation of aggravated rape and was sentenced to 10 years probation and will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. McKenzie co-operated with prosecutors and testified against his three co-defendants - Brandon Vandenburg, 24, Cory Batey, 24, and Brandon Banks, 24 - all of whom were convicted in the attack and sentenced to prison.

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Vandenberg and Batey were sentenced to 17 and 15 years respectively following their conviction in a retrial. The pair's first trail was declared a mistrial after it was discovered the jury foreman did not disclose he was a victim of a sexual assault. Banks was sentenced to 15 years, as well.

McKenzie initially pleaded not guilty prior to his cooperation with the district attorney.

Detectives discovered more than 40 pictures and three videos of the June 20, 2013, rape on cell phones and surveillance footage from the residence hall showed Banks carrying the victim's "lifeless" body into Vandenburg's dorm room. McKenzie asserted he never touched the woman, who testified in all the previous trials, but in his testimony at the earlier trials, he said he watched as his teammates raped the woman and took pictures. Banks' defense was that peer pressure made him rape the woman.

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