Attorney: Briles broke promise of apology to sexual assault victim

Art Briles and Baylor may have severed ties permanently this past week, but news surrounding his tumultuous tenure continues to surface.

The attorney for former Baylor student Jasmin Hernandez, who was raped by former football player Tevin Elliott in 2012, released a statement Monday alleging that Briles backed out on a pledge to support and apologize to Hernandez.

Elliott was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the act, and Hernandez sued Baylor, Briles, and former athletic director Ian McCaw a couple months ago under the premise that the school did not comply with Title IX regulations.

According to her attorneys, Briles was working with Hernandez last week in an attempt to settle the lawsuit, while the former coach's attorney, Ernest Cannon, filed a motion to separate the 60-year-old from the lawsuit against the university.

Hernandez's attorney, Alex Zalkin, told ESPN's Outside the Lines that Briles "promised to support Jasmin...and help her, and to apologize to her and her family."

Briles reached a settlement with Baylor over his dismissal on Friday, and Cannon immediately dropped his legal motion. Briles then failed to show up for the mediation meeting with Hernandez and her attorneys on Friday, a move that clearly upset the victim and her legal team.

"(Briles) used the threat of helping Jasmin in her lawsuit against Baylor as leverage to negotiate his wrongful-termination claim against Baylor," Zalkin stressed. "He doesn't care about victims. He used them to help build up his football program, and now he's using Jasmin to leverage more money out of Baylor."