UNC Sexual Assault Survivor Faces Honor Code Violation After Speaking Publicly About Abuse

[aviv_b]

A University of North Carolina student says she faces possible expulsion for "intimidating" her alleged rapist by speaking publicly about her assault and how the school has handled it.

Landen Gambill, a sophomore at UNC, was part of a group that filed a complaint in January with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, alleging

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[mollywobbles867]

I read about this on Jezebel earlier. I want to leave the planet.

[belleweather]

This is sadly pretty common... I went to a lefty college with a pretty progressive outlook on handling on-campus sexual assault and harassment, but their standard procedure was after an issue went to the Sexual Offense Grievance Panel, anyone involved in the incident was forbidden from speaking about it AT ALL, under any circumstances, to another person, basically forever under the terms of the agreement they signed with the college. The one person I know who actually signed one of those letters said that it forbid him from discussing the incident with a therapist, even.

Not likely to stand in court, obvs, but still an amazingly shittastic thing to even try to do to someone.

[mollywobbles867]

That's disgusting. I would sue the hell out of them. Has anyone ever sued them over it?

[rayofblacklight]

I didn't get in trouble for breaking it, but when I filed sexual misconduct charges against my ex and lost my case, I had to sign an agreement that I wouldn't talk to others (I think therapists were exempt) about it. He had to sign one too, so there's that.
--Leah

[sakuraberries]

Question that is slightly OT: must all cases of sexual assault/rape on college campuses go through university court/police? Or can the victim simply go to the real police straight away?

[mollywobbles867]

I think what happens is that even if you call 911, they just assign the campus police to come to you if it happened on campus.

[kittenmommy]

I think I'd demand the real police.

Not that they'd necessarily handle it better, of course.

[beuk]

Same

[x_neverenough]

jfc I hate this world

[aviv_b]

The hell? That's just more fuckery icing on the fuckery cake. And why the hell would you put students in charge of sexual assault cases? That's a criminal matter, not at all comparable to someone plagiarizing or cheating on a test.

[nitasee]

Won't somebody think of the poor rapist.

Yeah, right. Points to icon.