Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Baylor, alleged gang rape victim reach settlement in Title IX suit [Waco Tribune-Herald]

The flava:
This is the fourth Title IX lawsuit Baylor has resolved related to its sexual assault scandal. The school has also reached settlements with at least three other alleged victims of sexual assault who did not file lawsuits. . . .

 Baylor still faces six active Title IX lawsuits.

 Gang rapes committed by football players, according to the suit, were often recorded and circulated around the team. The suit took aim at a culture perpetuating sexual violence at a school that, months before the suit was filed, saw Ken Starr fired as president and Art Briles as head football coach amid the scandal. Athletics Director Ian McCaw resigned days after Starr and Briles’ removals.

The article:
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_and_trials/baylor-alleged-gang-rape-victim-reach-settlement-in-title-ix/article_da7a083d-42be-570d-adb8-a1a87d4681b6.html
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2 comments:

  1. EC1September 7, 2017 at 6:14:00 PM CDT

    And according to this morning's news, Betsy DeVos wants to "do a better job of balancing the rights of victims and the accused".
    http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/07/betsy-devos-to-revamp-obama-era-schools-sexual-assault-policy-242444

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    1. Contingent CassandraSeptember 9, 2017 at 4:25:00 PM CDT

      Indeed. While there may actually be *some* real problems with the systems on *some* campuses (hard as the regular legal system can be on victims, I think we'd be better off if more on-campus cases were handled by the regular courts, if only because that would do a better job of tracing serial offenders as they move from place to place), I have very little faith in the ability of the present administration to address those problems while preserving the rights of accusers.

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