A 19-year-old student of Saint Mary's has died from an overdose of Effexor, an antidepressent, after accusing a Notre Dame football player of sexual assault.
Just 3 days after the supposed incident, Elizabeth Seeburg was found barely conscious in her door room after she'd missed a counseling session with Belles Against Violence, a Saint Mary's group that helps victims of sexual assault.
No action has been taken against the accused football player, who has gone unnamed by Saint Mary's and Notre Dame.
And now this girl is dead even though she had done all that she could possibly have done to help herself. The girl had accused the Notre Dame player of a sexual assault, not a rape. She had written down what had happened to her the night of the incident (which had been stopped by a knock on her dorm room door) and reported it to campus police the next day. She sought help from the Belles Against Violence Group, and was already taking the antidepressent for an anxiety disorder. This woman tried to do all the prescribed steps of getting over the event, and yet, she died from the very medication she was told she could turn to for her pain.
From the Chicago Tribune
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