2ND LAWSUIT Against Clark University. Male Sues Over Sexual Exploitation Finding
A student at Clark University who says he was falsely accused and unfairly convicted of sexual exploitation is suing the institution and many of its administrators in federal court. The freshman student ‘John Doe’ argues the college has become biased against male students in sexual misconduct cases, thanks to recent pressure from the federal government and public opinion. In his particular case, he says the university automatically believed the account of his accuser, who reported that Mr. Doe had intercourse with her without a condom, which led to the sexual exploitation charge against him. Mr. Doe is the second male student to file a federal lawsuit against Clark claiming bias in the university’s handling of sexual misconduct complaints since 2015.
Jeannie Suk Gersen, a professor at Harvard Law School, said many universities have panicked and in their rush to defend the rights of alleged victims of sexual assault began disregarding the rights of accused students. “In recent years, it has become commonplace to deny accused students access to the complaint, the evidence, the identities of witnesses, or the investigative report, and to forbid them from questioning complainants or witnesses,” Gersen wrote in The New Yorker. “At many schools, investigators and adjudicators have been trained to ‘start by believing’ the complainant rather than to start from a position of neutrality.” By some counts, half of the students accused of sexual misconduct since 2011 have sued their schools, and half of the suing students have won court rulings in their favor or reached settlements with the college.
Mr. Doe’s suit seeks to throw out the guilty finding against him by the university’s trial board, as well as unspecified compensatory damages. In addition to Clark, his complaint names as defendants President David Angel, Dean of Student Services Nadja C. Johnson, Title IX coordinator Lynn S. Levey, deputy Title IX coordinators Adam J. Keyes and Holly Dolan, Vice President for Academic Affairs Davis Baird, and the three administrators on the trial board that ruled on Mr. Doe’s case: Evette Walters, Cherilyn Bonin and Jeff McMaster. The female accuser is also being sued…(Finally holding females responsible for their consenting actions-Females need to own their sh*t and stop blaming males for their consent choices…SOS)
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