Title IX & civil rights on campus.

smilemaker
Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:42:53 +0000

This is all interesting reading since I have dealt closely with a drug/ rape situation this past year. Legally, the boy has not been charged but the investigation is ongoing. I agree with the local university having a lot os influence over how a local small town police department handles certain situations. Though a rape kit was performed at the local hospital in a timely manner and with both uniformed police officers and a detective standing by, nobody bothered to draw the girls’ blood. Urine was taken but it has never gotten to the state lab and nobody seems to be sure where it is. The young man’s condom was also in evidence but answers are nearly impossible to get from anyone associated with the legal nd of the case.

Though he hasn’t been charged legally, a university Student Conduct Committee Hearing resulted in his expulsion from the university. His appeal was denied by administration. Things dragged a bit and he did get to finish the fall semester before TRANSFERRING to another university. his transcript was updated when his appeal was denied yet the University of Missouri at Columbia still has him enrolled as a full-time student. I guess it is one thing to worry about how sexual assaults/rapes are handled at your child’s university but another to figure out why another school would accept a transfer student expelled from another school for such a horrible reason. A Student Conduct Hearing is not a court of law, but one would guess that another university’s Admissions Department would investigate any disciplinary expulsion before admitting the student. Seems to me that there is a huge risk being taken by Mizzou. Few girls report because out of the cases that are reported, the punishment seldom is anywhere near harsh enough. I know that there is a lot of “he said, she said” but when the evidence is there, authorities too often overlook it. Remind your kids, that it takes less than a split second to have something put in a drink. A glance in another direction allows plenty of time for a would-be assailant who is keeping a close eye on somebody.