The 18-year-old woman previously filed a lawsuit against Bryant, the university and the Board of Regents in Peach County Superior Court. 

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution generally does not name alleged victims of sexual assault without their permission. 

The lawsuit, filed in May, alleges Bryant initially offered to make unspecified misdemeanor charges against the first-year student “go away if she stuck with him.” 

Those advances escalated, according to the lawsuit.  Bryant allegedly entered the woman’s room in March using his university-issued keys and offered her gifts in exchange for sex. 

“Bryant then placed his hands on (the student’s) foot and put four of her five toes in his mouth without permission and sucked on her toes,” also without permission, according to the lawsuit.  He held her down while he rubbed himself “against the bottom of her foot,” attorneys for the student claim. 

When Bryant allegedly leaned in for a kiss and the student refused, the officer hugged her and left. 

Days after that encounter, the student recorded a phone conversation with Bryant in which he “again made sexually explicit references about (the student), offered to help her with her case in exchange for sexual favors, and offered gifts and trips,” according to the lawsuit. 

The student’s complaint was his seventh accusation of inappropriate or unprofessional conduct since 2011, personnel records included in the lawsuit show. 

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Bryant resigned from the police department April 21, two days before the GBI started its probe. 

Through that investigation, GBI Special Agent in Charge Todd Crosby said authorities learned Bryant “called the student and made numerous explicit sexual comments while on the phone.” 

The woman and her family “want to bring awareness to the epidemic of sexual assaults that are sweeping this country and college campuses,” her attorneys said Friday in a news release. “ Many times these sexual assaults go unreported.” 

About the same time the GBI opened its investigation into Bryant, the agency launched a wide-ranging inquiry into the 123-year-old historically black public university, which is about 105 miles south of downtown Atlanta in Middle Georgia.  Allegations surrounded employee misconduct and hazing involving the nation’s oldest black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha. 

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Computers were seized and the sorority’s national office initiated an investigation of its own. 

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The explosive allegations came to light during a Board of Regents visit to Fort Valley State.  A student mentioned issues to a regent, who reported them to the state attorney general’s office.  That office directed the GBI to open a criminal investigation. 

Alecia Johnson, a former Fort Valley State employee involved with the sorority, resigned as the university’s special events director one day after the GBI first spoke publicly about the investigation.  Her lawyer, Adrian Patrick, told The AJC that Johnson could no longer withstand accusations on social media that she helped connect prospective sorority members with people who paid them for sexual activities. 

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The status of that investigation was unclear Friday. 

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