Stay classy, Virginia Wesleyan.
A former Virginia Wesleyan College freshman is
suing the school after she was raped on campus in 2012. The unnamed
woman says the school did not do enough to prevent her rape and didn't
respond appropriately when she reported it [via News13Now].
The
school is seeking to have the suit dismissed, with their brief reading,
"The existence of a duty to warn or protect is a pure question of law.
In general, one does not have a duty to warn or protect another from
third-party criminal acts." The school is also arguing against claims
that the school has a higher rate of sexual assaults than other schools.
Attorneys
for the college have said, "VWC finds rape and sexual assault
abhorrent and vehemently denies playing any contributing role in the
rape and sexual assault alleged by Plaintiff," but this was also
reportedly written in a section that alleges the former student assumed
the risk of sexual violence and attributes the assault to her own
negligence.Since news of the lawsuit broke, many people have been angry with how the school is handling it, but the school maintains it has done nothing wrong.
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