Story on the new lawsuit:
http://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Me...in-new-suit-against-BU-alleges-441328073.html
“Meaningful reform has not yet set in” new suit against BU alleges
By Staff |
Posted: Mon 4:27 PM, Aug 21, 2017
WACO, Texas (KWTX) A new Title IX lawsuit filed Monday against Baylor that stems from an alleged rape that occurred 11 months after the university promised sweeping changes claims “meaningful reform has not yet set in.”
In May Baylor regents announced "structural completion" of the 105 recommendations growing out of the Pepper Hamilton law firm's scathing report of a review of the sexual assault scandal that engulfed the school's football program.
But the suit filed Monday in U.S. District Court on behalf of a Baylor coed who alleges that another student raped her in April says “University Title IX personnel directly contradicted any assurance that meaningful change had occurred within the Title IX office despite the University’s repeated boasting of full implementation of the recommendations.
Instead, the suit says, university employees asked the student what type of clothes she was wearing at the time of the alleged rape and how easily they were removed, interrogated her about alcohol use and what she had eaten, and ultimately determined that the sex was consensual, without having the results of an exam performed by a sexual assault nurse examiner at a local hospital.
“When Jane Doe 11 maintained that the assault was not consensual, the university attempted to have her say that (her alleged attacker) may have nevertheless believed that he had consent.
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