University of Cincinnati student suing school after hearing over rape allegations

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2014-05-07 21:49

Story here. Excerpt:

'A University of Cincinnati student accused of raping a woman and attempting to rape another is suing the school and its assistant dean for ignoring evidence that he says absolved him, according to court documents.
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According to Peloe’s lawsuit, surveillance video obtained by police shows the two women “were not intoxicated and led Peloe to their room.”

The suit also states text messages obtained in the investigation called “significant portions of the students’ stories into question.”

“For example, although the students claimed to be passed out, they still sent a number of text messages,” the lawsuit states. “In addition, later messages joked about the case.”

Peloe said another female student was in the room when the alleged rape took place, but that student did not witness anything illegal.

Rape kits were submitted to a crime lab for analysis.

Peloe’s lawsuit states “on information and belief,” the results of the rape kits are consistent with the version of events provided by Peloe.

Peloe also claims UC has refused to provide him with the results despite repeated requests and a “clear duty to produce the information under Ohio’s Public Records Laws.”
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Peloe also claims UC has attempted to “limit his ability to prepare for the hearings” by giving him less than three days to obtain documents and other evidence.
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Two Administrative Review Committee (ARC) hearings were held on May 2. During these hearings, Peloe said the council treated him unfairly.'

“The ARC hearings were nothing more than kangaroo courts,” the lawsuit states. “Shortly after the start of the ARC hearing, it was apparent (the committee) had reached a conclusion and was biased against Peloe.”'

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What no one in the report is saying, not even the defense attorney, is that campus hearing boards or campus "courts" are not actual courts of law. They may be an administrative instrument for the university to use to do whatever (not much different from how they may process their payroll, for example), but the problem is that the effects of its usage are both significant for those they decide are in violation of some campus rule (esp. if it results in expulsion of the student), but more to the point, constitute both libel and slander, as the student is pronounced guilty verbally and in writing. He is labelled a rapist or other kind of assailant, and this fits to a T the definitions of slander and liable. Worse still, the defaming party then inflicts an injury to the defamed by throwing him out of college and leaving him with a very long road ahead to deal with all the loans he took out to pay the people who just summarily whacked him. (Kind of like being on the receiving end of a divorce initiated by a stay-at-home wife, isn't it?)

But slander and liable can be hard to get a conviction for, at least in the U.S. (See here.) It has to be a pretty egregious matter. But maybe the only way feminist-dominated university hearing boards and "courts" can be stopped is if students like this one take their dear would-be former alma mater to civil court and seek damages in the amount of, say, what would or may have been their earnings had they not been summarily booted from school because a girl who was embarrassed to tell her uber-conservative mother that she had a boyfriend with whom she was playing mattress rodeo decided it better to throw him under the bus and accuse him of rape than just plain tell her mother the truth, even if it meant she lost her promised new Prius to be delivered to her upon graduation, provided her final GPA is at least 3.3, of course.

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2014-05-09 03:57