John Partipilo/AP Former Vanderbilt University football player Brandon Vandenburg looks on as a jury pronounces him guilty of the brutal rape of a female student who was unconscious.
Larry McCormack/AP Defendant Cory Batey, right, watches as defense attorneys confer during the Vanderbilt rape trial, Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. A defense witness in the case of four former Vanderbilt University football players charged with gang-raping a fellow student testified Friday that Batey was so drunk, he would have struggled to form the intent to commit such a crime. (AP Photo/The Tennessean, Larry McCormack) NO SALES
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A Tennessee jury has convicted two former star athletes at Vanderbilt University of raping an unconscious female student.
Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey were each charged with five counts of rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery.
Prosecutors told jurors on Tuesday that the defendants believed they were entitled athletes who could "get away with anything."
Jurors took little more than two hours to convict the men on all charges.
The brutal attack was captured on cellphone photos that were shared on social media, authorities said.
The 2013 dorm room attack occurred after the 21-year-old woman passed out.
She testified last week that she had just begun dating Vandenburg in 2013 when he took her to a Nashville club and gave her several drinks. She woke up the next day in his dorm room, she said. He told her she had gotten sick and he had to take care of her all night.
Larry McCormack/AP Former football player Cory Batey apologized on the witness stand Monday for the rape of an unconscious Vanderbilt student. He another Vanderbilt player were found guilty Tuesday.
Larry McCormack/AP Cory Batey told jurors he was so drunk he could not remember raping a 21-year-old fellow student at Vanderbilt University. He was found guilty on all charges.
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But surveillance video showed a woman being dragged into Vandenburg's dorm hall that evening. The victim said she had no memory of being attacked.
"Our heart goes out to the brave victim," said Beth Fortune, Vanderbilt's vice chancellor for public affairs, on Tuesday. "Sexual violence will never be tolerated."
Batey testified Monday that he was too drunk to remember the rape.The victim, in court for his testimony, cried and appeared to vomit when he said that.
"I was drunk out of my mind," he said. "This is something I would never do in my right state of mind. I'm just sorry."
The two face dozens of years in prison.
Two other football players have also been charged in the rape. They will be tried separately.
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