Rape charges dropped, but university expels male student anyway

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'The student, identified in a federal lawsuit against Rider only as “John Doe,” was disciplined in December after a campus administrative panel found him at fault for an alleged sexual assault of two females student in a dorm room.

The student, however, was never prosecuted, despite an investigation by campus and municipal police and the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.

The lawsuit says the female students gave conflicting and contradictory statements to police, with their stories going from a kissing and heavy petting incident to one of forced penetration and attempted oral sodomy.

The lawsuit says the school, “in a rush to convict” the freshman student and “brand him a sexual predator,” didn’t allow his attorney to ask the victim any questions during the disciplinary hearing and considered him “guilty until proven innocent.”'