David Daniels, an opera singer and music professor at the University of Michigan, has been arrested, and may be handed over to authorities in Texas\u2026<\/b>
\nDavid Daniels, an opera singer and music professor at the University of Michigan, has been arrested, and may be handed over to authorities in Texas for a second-degree sexual assault charge, according to a report by Inside Higher Ed.
Daniels\u2019 husband, Scott Walters, was also arrested on accusations that the two men allegedly drugged and raped graduate student Samuel Schultz in Houston, Texas, in 2010.
The attorney representing Daniels and Walters, Matt Hennessy, says that Schultz is just looking to capitalize on the #MeToo movement, because the former student knows he will never get that amount of attention as a singer.
\u201cDavid and Scott are innocent of any wrongdoing,\u201d said Hennessy to Mlive, \u201cSam Schultz is not a victim. He never would have gotten this much attention from his singing, and he knows and resents that fact.\u201d
\u201cHe waited eight years to complain about adult, consensual sex to ride the MeToo movement to unearned celebrity,\u201d added Hennessy, \u201cWe will fight this.\u201d
\u201cI have been terrified to talk about this publicly,\u201d said Schultz in a statement on his website, \u201cas many know, people in positions of power \u2014 have not been held accountable in the past. There was a legitimate danger of destroying my career by reporting someone else\u2019s assault against me.\u201d
Daniels, who was granted tenure last May, is also facing a lawsuit by another former student, Andrew Lipian, who said in 2017 that the professor took off his clothes and groped him after tricking him into taking sleeping medication, according to NPR.
Lipian also claims that the university\u2019s faculty and administration did not act, despite knowing that Daniels had been \u201cextremely open about and forward with his sexual thoughts and feelings.\u201d
Daniels, who is on a leave of absence from the University of Michigan, denies Lipian\u2019s allegation, calling it \u201cfake and malicious.\u201d
\u201cI was raped,\u201d said Schultz in his statement regarding Daniels and Walters, who were wed by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2014.
\u201cYes, men are raped,\u201d added Schultz, \u201cI did not know that the word \u2018rape\u2019 applied to what happened to me until I lethargically went to tell a friend, and told her through tears and emptiness, what happened to me.\u201d
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