A University of Delaware baseball pitcher, who is already facing first-degree rape charge, has been alleged by six more women of rape.
Clay Conaway, 22, who was charged with rape a month earlier, now faces seven counts of rape. The incidents happened from 2013, when Conaway was just 17 and a student at Sussex Central High School, through 2018.
Conway, who appeared in 22 games and was a key pitcher for the university’s baseball team in 2018, was arrested in August for raping 20-year-old women in Georgetown in June.
He was expelled earlier this month after a university investigation established that claims of a woman who said she was raped in November 2017 were true.
“People should know the truth,” she told Delaware Online. “I feel like that will protect other women in the future and also just get the word out that he is a bad person and this is not a one-time thing.”
While Joe Hurley, Conaway’s attorney, has denied the new charges filed against his client and said that they stem from the publicity of his arrest.
“Why didn’t these people come forward before?” Hurley said and added, “It is a daunting atmosphere right now because people jump to conclusions.”