The excellent James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal exposed the kangaroo courts so common on campuses that ruin men's reputations after a women charges "regret rape."
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10...on_LEADTop
Reading between the lines, it sound like this girl asked her boyfriend for anal, he gave it too her, she regretted it and felt ashamed, so she accused him of rape.
The courts threw out the case due to lack of evidence, but Auburn found him guilty, expelled him from school, and will arrest him if he ever steps foot on campus the rest of his life.
What was the evidence? She cried. As Taranto says "..in principle a woman's tears are sufficient to establish a man's guilt."
It's a long article, here are some excerpts.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10...on_LEADTop
Reading between the lines, it sound like this girl asked her boyfriend for anal, he gave it too her, she regretted it and felt ashamed, so she accused him of rape.
The courts threw out the case due to lack of evidence, but Auburn found him guilty, expelled him from school, and will arrest him if he ever steps foot on campus the rest of his life.
What was the evidence? She cried. As Taranto says "..in principle a woman's tears are sufficient to establish a man's guilt."
It's a long article, here are some excerpts.
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Joshua Strange will never forget the girl he met in May 2011.
Both were underclassmen at Alabama's Auburn University when a common acquaintance introduced them. "We instantly became attached at the hip and did everything together," she recalled six months later. "I rather quickly moved into his place. . . . Everything was great until pretty much June 29."
That night, an intimate encounter in Mr. Strange's bed went wrong. She called police, who detained him for questioning. She said she had awakened to find him forcing himself on her; he said the sexual activity was consensual and initiated by her. There was no dispute as to the physical acts involved.
Mr. Strange was cleared on both counts. On Feb. 3, 2012, a grand jury handed up a "no bill" indictment on the sodomy charge, meaning the evidence was insufficient to establish probable cause for prosecution. On May 24, when the simple-assault case went to trial, the accuser didn't show up. "I don't have a witness to go forward with, your honor," said city attorney Michael Short. Case dismissed.
Auburn expelled him after a campus tribunal found him "responsible" for committing the catchall offense of "sexual assault and/or sexual harassment."
Joshua Strange, now 23, is a civilian casualty in the Obama administration's war on men. In an April 2011 directive, Russlyn Ali, then assistant education secretary for civil rights, threatened to withhold federal money from any educational institution that failed to take a hard enough line against sexual misconduct to ensure "that all students feel safe in their school." The result was to leave accused students more vulnerable to false charges and unfair procedures. The prospect of losing federal funds has left university administrators "crippled by panic," Robert Shibley of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education told me. "The incentives are pointing toward findings of guilt, not accurate findings."
The grand jury found there wasn't even probable cause, a looser standard than preponderance of the evidence. But the university hearing that yielded his expulsion was a travesty of a legal process.
Mr. Dodge asked Ms. Taylor to describe "typical behaviors" of "somebody who may have undergone a sexual assault." She listed three. First, "they frequently cry." Second, "their storytelling is sometimes disjointed, sometimes not." Third, "there's often a lot of emotion inserted into the story that is about being very upset or in disbelief or unsure what to do next, petrified."
The second "behavior" is tautological; every story either is or is not disjointed. The third is a windy elaboration of the first. Thus Ms. Taylor's testimony amounted to a claim that in principle a woman's tears are sufficient to establish a man's guilt—an inane stereotype that infantilizes women in the interest of vilifying men.
The university flaunted its contempt for the defendant's right to confront his accuser. According to Mr. Strange, a curtain was hung in the hearing room to shield her from his view. And although the panelists were permitted to question witnesses, there was no cross-examination.
Auburn expelled him after a campus tribunal found him "responsible" for committing the catchall offense of "sexual assault and/or sexual harassment." A letter from Melvin Owens, head of the campus police, explained that expulsion is a life sentence. If Mr. Strange ever sets foot on Auburn property, he will be "arrested for Criminal Trespass Third," Mr. Owens warned.
Take care of those titties for me.