Just came across this story on CNN. Report says female students coming forward to Brigham Young University Campus Title IX officials about alleged sexual assaults are being reprimanded for their actions that lead to alleged assaults - actions which are in violation of the school's honor code. Drug use, alcohol consumption, etc. Go figure.
The story cited here is a good one:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/29/health/bri...sity-rape/
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So she got high with a group of strange men, some guys "did stuff," and some other guy "basically raped" her.
She never mentioned any sort of penetration here. She claims she wanted to "make sure he didn't victimize anyone else" (just the one guy, not the others?) yet she never pressed charges with the police, you know, the people who can actually make sure he doesn't hurt anyone else if he is the predator she claims him to be.
I actually think this school is finally taking the right approach - taking the piss out of false rape accusations. Women who are irresponsible at best, and vengeful malicious liars at worst shouldn't be able to ruin a man's life with a shaky allegation to a school official. If the assault was real then you go to the police and press charges to take a predator off the streets.
The girl in this story above, Brooke, claims she did go to the police and file a report, but refused to go through the process of bringing anyone to justice because she did not want to have to "relive" the events - yet she has no issue echoing the story in detail to her campus officials, and then going on to be interviewed about it by CNN.
The story cited here is a good one:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/29/health/bri...sity-rape/
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Brooke's nightmare began in February 2014, when she was a freshman. She said she had taken hallucinogenic drugs just before being assaulted. She was with a group of guys at an off-campus apartment. She admitted that she took the drugs voluntarily, thinking everyone else was going to do them, too. But she said she ended up being the only one.
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"He started, like, touching me and stuff, so I tried to get up and leave. And then, right when I was leaving, two other guys came in and grabbed me and were like, 'You can't leave.' And then they shut the door and locked it," Brooke said.
Brooke, who does not want her last name made public, alleges that all three men "did stuff" to her. "Then the other two left, and it was just the main guy, and basically over the course of the next 45 minutes, in different ways, he raped me," she said.
When her alleged attacker left, Brooke grabbed a blanket and ran from the apartment to get help. Police responded and took her report. Ten days later, she decided not to move forward with any charges, afraid of reliving the horror over and over again through the often long and arduous trial process.
However, Brooke told her story to BYU's Title IX office, which handles student sexual harassment and sexual violence investigations. She said her rapist was a student, and she wanted to make sure he didn't victimize anyone else.
"I thought there would be some mercy, you know," Brooke said. "I told them everything, and because of the fact that I was on drugs, they used that reason to kick me out of school after reporting it."
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So she got high with a group of strange men, some guys "did stuff," and some other guy "basically raped" her.
She never mentioned any sort of penetration here. She claims she wanted to "make sure he didn't victimize anyone else" (just the one guy, not the others?) yet she never pressed charges with the police, you know, the people who can actually make sure he doesn't hurt anyone else if he is the predator she claims him to be.
I actually think this school is finally taking the right approach - taking the piss out of false rape accusations. Women who are irresponsible at best, and vengeful malicious liars at worst shouldn't be able to ruin a man's life with a shaky allegation to a school official. If the assault was real then you go to the police and press charges to take a predator off the streets.
The girl in this story above, Brooke, claims she did go to the police and file a report, but refused to go through the process of bringing anyone to justice because she did not want to have to "relive" the events - yet she has no issue echoing the story in detail to her campus officials, and then going on to be interviewed about it by CNN.