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FOXBORO - A Foxboro teen is upping her defense in the incident which led to her dismissal from the New England Patriots cheerleading squad.

Caitlin Davis, 18, says she never saw the swastika drawn on a passed-out Boston College student and reiterated that she didn't draw anything - the Nazi symbol, the vulgar words for body parts or the illustrations of a penis - on the young man.

"At the time, I had jumped in the picture with the kid, I didn't realize what had been drawn on him, which I take responsibility for not being alert," Davis told the gossip Web site TMZ.com.

Davis was booted by the Patriots after photos of her appeared on the social networking Web site Facebook. The photos show Davis with a Sharpie pen in her hand over what appears to be a passed-out college student. The vulgar expressions, penis drawings, two swastikas and the words "I'm a Jew" are visible in the photos. Drawing on passed-out students is apparently a tradition at Boston College which Davis, a 2008 Foxboro High School graduate and a freshman at Johnson & Wales University, visited for a Halloween night party.

Davis told TMZ.com that she did not draw on the student but merely posed over him with pens in hand when someone at the party pointed him out.

"Me and my girlfriends took pictures with him because we found it humorous how badly he was drawn on," she was quoted as saying.