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RandySF

(57,659 posts)
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 11:17 PM Oct 2017

Accused rapist goes free but BYU student still violated the honor code by being raped

Last year, a student at Brigham Young University made news when she was accused of violating the school’s honor code by being raped.

The accused rapist Nasiru Seidu was acquitted of the 2015 first-degree rape charge, according to Jezebel.

The survivor was allegedly raped off campus, but she was investigated for her “sexual behavior” that was detailed in the police report. Students at BYU are not allowed to have premarital sex, regardless of whether that sex is nonconsensual. She was then prevented from enrolling in classes because she refused to cooperate with the Honor Code investigation.

“BYU likes to look at your rape and chop it up into little pieces and choose the parts that they can punish you for,” she said in 2016. “They’re emboldening my rapist.”

She didn’t initially involve the campus since the alleged rape took place off campus. The police report was given to the university, however, by a Utah County Sheriff, who is a friend of the accused rapist. The U.S. Department of Education did begin a Title IX investigation, but that investigation is still pending. New Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has called into question President Barack Obama’s work to try and eradicate sexual assault on college campuses and is “reviewing” the rules.


https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/accused-rapist-goes-free-but-byu-student-still-violated-the-honor-code-by-being-raped/#.WekeOPBPGRc.twitter

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Accused rapist goes free but BYU student still violated the honor code by being raped (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2017 OP
Sue BYU and transfer Freethinker65 Oct 2017 #1
This is after all Wellstone ruled Oct 2017 #2
Why don't they just get it the fuck over with and do what they really want? Doreen Oct 2017 #3
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. This is after all
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 11:35 PM
Oct 2017

a Theocracy and the Main Religion does not treat Women with the same respect as Males.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
3. Why don't they just get it the fuck over with and do what they really want?
Fri Oct 20, 2017, 12:20 AM
Oct 2017

Stone her to death. The very countries that do that maintain Sharia law and this is the religion that this school and others hate and put down yet they are trying their damnedest to follow it. Vile people.

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