You don’t have to go through the school if you don’t want to. But a criminal trial is a lengthy process and could take years depending on how the trial goes.

In this case, it’s the fault of the school rep who didn’t communicate FOR A MONTH with the police and thus, give them a chance to offer a kit to the young woman in the aftermath of the alleged assault.

Especially needed now that all the dregs of Gawker have wandered over here...

She’s fantastic! Glad to see a rep taking the time to really push on an issue that hasn’t gotten any traction.

That’s my representative! Nice to see people trying to accomplish actual governance instead of just repealing Obamacare non-stop.

Even Fox News can’t hide the truth anymore.

Some people say that it’s difficult for Trump to release his actual medical records because they’re buried in a warehouse in New Jersey, along with his tax records and his NAMBLA membership card. Some people are saying that.

It’s specious bullshit. They decry the university’s failure to give them due process (i.e., they act like they’re entitled to the same safeguards against punitive action that criminal defendants are entitled to in the Courts), but then want the university to give them that “due process” without incorporating certain…

It's like they've never heard that spouses can be raped by their spouse (sounds awkward but I'm going with the gender/sex neutral way, to be more inclusive of who can be horrible to whom)

This is how Nate Parker slid by. Claimed previous relations with the woman he raped with his pal. That’s why his pal got convicted, he had not had previous involvement with the woman.

I feel like, unfortunately, not much has changed with that way of thinking over the years (from the male perspective). For example, so many boys and “men” think that forcing or coercing someone into having sex when you are on a date with them or when you know them is not rape when, in reality, it is still rape if they…

If you’re facing harassment or assault on campus, just know that Title IX is not your friend or ally and has zero reason to respond adequately to your claims. If anything, you should see them as being wholly against you.

Like if you enjoy having sex sometimes, you are legally required to comply every time someone wants to bone you. I cannot even fucking believe that this is an argument people feel comfortable making in 2016.

This is terrible and so is that cases of universities failing in their duty of care to students who have been sexually assaulted are becoming so familiar.

Right. I just find it sick that men think this is not rape. Like that asshole from Stanford. If a girl is drunk or “very sexually active” then it’s not rape to them . . . she wanted it. BS.

The criminal justice system can be much worse for victims of sexual assault. The standard of proof is much higher (beyond a reasonable doubt rather than preponderance of the evidence), and confrontation rights which lead to aggressive questioning by attorneys can be incredibly traumatic. In addition, the prosecutor,…

The issue is that most police departments don’t handle rape the way they handled your daughter’s situation. If there are charges laid, and a trial, it may be years later. The victim needs to be able to access counselling and have accommodations made to allow her to continue in her studies in the meantime.

the police also allegedly failed to adequately address her claims

they also claimed that the school failed to take into account that the accuser was “very sexually active.”