“It was this psychotic game of, ‘You wanna play? Tell me about your sex life, I have to drive you to your night class, get in the car with me alone,’” she recalled. “I started trying to spend as little time as possible with her, taking different routes to practice where I knew I wouldn’t run into her. During meetings, I would try to sit as far away from her as possible, literally anything to not be alone with this woman.”
And while Cooper shared that she “felt so deeply uncomfortable” at the time, she felt ] she couldn’t speak out about the alleged abuse because she didn’t want to jeopardize her full-tuition scholarship.
“If I didn’t follow this woman’s rules,” she noted, “I was gone.”
And when she did attempt to provide university officials with written documentation of Feldman’s inappropriate actions, she alleged that they “dismissed” her allegations and did not investigate the matter.
