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Father of Leonte Carroo's alleged victim wants Rutgers to protect his daughter

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Rutgers police have not said whether there is surveillance footage.

PISCATAWAY -- The father of the woman who was allegedly slammed to the pavement by Rutgers University football player Leonte Carroo wants to hear the state university's plans to keep her safe.

So far, Rutgers officials haven't contacted him, he told NJ Advance Media in an interview Wednesday night. The woman is going to stay at Rutgers, against the wishes of some of her relatives, he said.

NJ Advance Media isn't identifying the woman -- who had a romantic relationship with Carroo -- because she is an alleged domestic violence victim. NJ Advance Media is withholding the father's name, too.

"I'm concerned," her father said. "I even asked the question out loud to the (police) officers -- what would you do as a dad?"

The incident took place outside the Hale Center after Rutgers' 37-34 loss to Washington State on Saturday. Carroo, a star wide receiver and one of the team's best players, has been suspended indefinitely.

Sources have said Carroo intervened in a dispute between the woman and Carroo's girlfriend. Nobody else has been charged in the incident. The alleged victim's father told NJ Advance Media that his daughter did not provoke the dispute.

Police have accused Carroo of slamming the woman on the pavement. Her father told NJ Advance Media she was taken to Saint Peter's University Hospital for her injuries. The woman, a Rutgers University student and athletics department employee, suffered bumps, bruises and cuts, and doctors performed tests to make sure she was okay after her head hit the ground, her father said. All tests were normal. He accompanied her to the hospital and, later, to the police department.


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Carroo's attorney declined to comment about the case; the Edison native and Big Ten standout pleaded not guilty to simple assault.

Her father's account, based on what the alleged victim told him, matched a report in The Record on Wednesday.

The woman told The Record: "(Carroo) picked me up and just dropped me. I remember that slam. I remember hitting the ground and seeing all those people around me."

The alleged victim has a restraining order against Carroo, and has quit her job at the athletics department, her father said.

According to her father, in the hours after the incident, Rutgers University police said in his presence they were confident that surveillance footage of the incident existed.

But the next morning, authorities at university police headquarters in New Brunswick told him there were no surveillance cameras in that area, her father said.

University Police Chief Kenneth Cop did not respond to numerous requests for comment. Rutgers investigators have said little about the case.

Brian Amaral may be reached at bamaral@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @bamaral44. Find NJ.com on Facebook.


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