{"id":5638,"date":"2022-04-08T19:56:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T23:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2022-04-08T19:56:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T23:56:50","slug":"liberty-university-professor-william-atwell-found-not-guilty-of-sexual-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5638","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University professor William Atwell found not guilty of sexual battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Atwell, a deaf sign language professor at Liberty University, who was previously charged with abduction, was found not guilty of sexual battery.<\/p>\n<p>According to his attorney, he&rsquo;s been on leave since the incident in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>In that incident, a female student alleges Atwell, a professor of hers at the time, had inappropriately touched her multiple times near his office on Liberty&rsquo;s campus the Friday before Thanksgiving break.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zixyMNs9Ib4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/2022\/04\/08\/liberty-university-professor-found-not-guilty-sexual-battery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Atwell, a deaf sign language professor at Liberty University, who was previously charged with abduction, was found not guilty of sex&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5638\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University professor William Atwell found not guilty of sexual battery<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-university-professor-william-atwell-found-not-guilty-of-sexual-battery","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1sW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5639,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions\/5639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}