U. New Mexico Football Players Plan to Sue University Over Sexual Assault Investigation
These cases just keep on piling up:
Stephen Edwards at The College Fix has the story:
Football players plan to sue university for ‘shoddy’ sexual-assault investigation
Two University of New Mexico football players and another student plan to sue the school for how it investigated sexual-assault allegations against them.
At a press conference last week, the students said the sex with their accuser was consensual, the Albuquerque Journal reported. Their lawyer, George Bleus, said the suit would focus on the university police’s “alarming level of investigation – or lack thereof.”
It’s a double whammy for the university: The Justice Department said Dec. 5 it was investigating how the University of New Mexico handles reported sexual assaults and harassment, in response to “multiple complaints.”
In April, SaQwan Edwards, Crusoe Gongbay and Central New Mexico Community College student Ryan Ruff were accused of kidnapping a female student, identified in legal papers as “CS,” from an off-campus party and sexually assaulting her.
The affidavit for Ruff’s arrest gives the accuser’s account of what occurred that night – that Edwards, Gongbay and Ruff abducted CS and coerced her into performing multiple sexual acts with them.
Football players plan to sue university for ‘shoddy’ sexual-assault investigation (The College Fix)
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This is why university police should NEVER be the final stop in rape cases. They are second string cops who are in thrall to the university and its public relations concerns. This rape should have been immediately reported to the REAL police who would have investigated more thoroughly.
The rights of the accuser and the accused are better served by the real legal system, not the kangaroo parallel system at the universities.