Opinion ID: 2820953
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: ReVille’s Abuse of the Does

Text: ReVille met Doe 2 in the summer of 2005, about two years before Camper Doe’s father called Rosa’s office. Doe 2 had just finished 6th Grade, and ReVille was a volunteer coach for his youth basketball team, which held practice at the prep school where ReVille worked. At some point, ReVille invited Doe 2 to his home to help with yardwork and began sexually abusing him shortly thereafter. ReVille testified he abused Doe 2 at least 12 times in 2005 and “three, four times a week” in 2006. J.A. 4721-26. ReVille became increasingly close with Doe 2 and his family, and during Doe 2’s 8th grade year, ReVille was invited by the Doe family to move into their home as a part-time caregiver for Doe 2 and his younger brother, Doe 3. ReVille then increased his abuse of Doe 2 and also began to abuse Doe 3. The abuse -- which consisted of sexual truth-or-dare games, oral sex, physical touching, and masturbation -- occurred from three to four times a week to “nearly daily” between the summer of 2006 through early 2007. J.A. 4989, 5044, 5231-33. In April 2007, prior to learning about Camper Doe’s allegations, ReVille 13 was abusing Doe 2 approximately “two to three times a week” and Doe 3 “three to four times a week.” J.A. 4730-31, 4736. After meeting with Brandenburg and Colonel Trez on April 24, 2007, ReVille briefly curtailed his sexual abuse of the Does. However, he heard nothing further from The Citadel or law enforcement and, taking the silence as “news that [he] was not going to get in trouble,” ReVille resumed the abuse before the end of May 2007. J.A. 5043-44. By that time, ReVille was no longer working at the Writing Center and used his additional free time to abuse the Does more frequently. The abuse ended by August, when the Doe family moved to Atlanta. After leaving his employment at the Writing Center, ReVille returned to The Citadel several times, to speak to the Honor Committee and incoming freshman, and in 2010 to attend the unveiling of the remodeled Honor Court. Finally, in October 2011, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina police arrested ReVille, apparently based on separate allegations of child sexual abuse. At that time, Camper Doe’s April 2007 allegations against ReVille came to light.