Mother turns sex-assault case against son into national campaign

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'Parents are often terrified when they call Sherry Warner Seefeld.

They’ve just learned that a son — or daughter — has been accused of sexual assault at college. And they’re deathly afraid of what may happen next.

Seefeld, a Minnesota native and the mother of four sons, knows what they’re going through. Six years ago, she was one of those parents. Now she’s on a mission to help other families in that same “horrific” spot, as the co-founder and president of Families Advocating for Campus Equality (FACE), a support group for the accused.

“Everybody wants to stop sexual assault, you know, everybody does,” says Seefeld, 60, a retired high school teacher in Fargo, N.D. But on college campuses today, she says, the innocent have as much to fear as the guilty.

In the midst of a national outcry over campus rape, she says, students are being labeled sex offenders based on little more than an accusation.'