{"id":1653713,"date":"2022-09-22T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T19:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1653713"},"modified":"2022-09-22T15:54:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T19:54:01","slug":"she-accused-him-of-sexual-assault-lawsuit-shows-her-allegations-were-false-yet-she-continues-to-defame-him-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/she-accused-him-of-sexual-assault-lawsuit-shows-her-allegations-were-false-yet-she-continues-to-defame-him-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"She Accused Him Of Sexual Assault. Lawsuit Shows Her Allegations Were False, Yet She Continues To Defame Him On Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshe-accused-him-of-sexual-assault-lawsuit-shows-her-allegations-were-false-yet-she-continues-to-defame-him-on-campus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1653713&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a blatant example of a school failing to protect a male student from false accusations of sexual assault, the University of Maryland-College Park (UMD) allowed an accuser and a powerful campus group to brand him a rapist even after the school determined he was not responsible, according to a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The male student, referred to in <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.mdd.510573\/gov.uscourts.mdd.510573.1.0.pdf\">court documents<\/a> as \u2018John Doe,\u2019 was a junior at UMD when he was accused of sexual assault by a female student, referred to only as \u2018Jane Roe.\u2019 Jane claimed in a formal complaint filed with the university on October 27, 2020, that she was sexually assaulted by John Doe and another student, referred to as \u2018Jacob Poe.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>John contended that his sexual encounter with Jane was consensual, and her contemporaneous text messages supported that contention. Shortly after performing oral sex on John, Jane texted a friend to say what she had just done and added, \u201cI have this thing where I like to make guys feel good.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>After her encounter with John, she became interested in Jacob, according to John\u2019s subsequent lawsuit. Her text messages regarding her feelings for Jacob were also positive, telling that same friend, \u201cAs soon as I walked in, I was like \u2018oh shit,\u2019\u201d and \u201cI feel like we\u2026 Vibed.\u201d Jane engaged in sexual activity with Jacob, after which she fell asleep with him on the couch in John\u2019s apartment, \u201chugging [him] like a koala,\u201d one witness later testified. The next day, she stayed at the apartment, conversing with John and watching football before going home later that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>But sometime later, Jane started calling both encounters sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Even during the investigation, the university ignored student complaints of harassment and intimidation. Jane\u2019s mother, according to John\u2019s lawsuit, harassed at least two witnesses, threatening one\u2019s family in an effort to prevent him from testifying and saying that if he did testify, \u201che would have a problem next.\u201d The university \u201ctook no meaningful steps to remedy the harassment or witness tampering,\u201d John\u2019s lawsuit says. <\/p>\n<p>Jane\u2019s mother also personally threatened John and Jacob with physical violence on her social media account, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation process, Jane repeatedly changed her story about what happened with John and Jacob, the lawsuit says. At one point she said John used force, yet another time she said he didn\u2019t use force. She claimed to be drunk and later claimed she was sober. She once said she had said no \u201ceight to ten times\u201d but later said she didn\u2019t say no. <\/p>\n<p>She also at one point said John \u201cforcibly removed her clothing\u201d but subsequently said she removed her own clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Jane also claimed that she didn\u2019t leave after allegedly being sexually assaulted by two different men because she didn\u2019t know how to exit the apartment building. Multiple witnesses at the hearing, however, insisted they offered to walk Jane home but that she declined. And far from being distressed, the witnesses testified that Jane \u201cseemed like she was enjoying every moment,\u201d that she danced, joked, and stayed up with everyone until five or six o\u2019clock in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Jane had also told a UMD police officer that she \u201chad a consensual sexual encounter\u201d with John, but the school never sought these statements on its own as part of the investigation. They were only included after John obtained them through a Public Information Act request.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the school had a mountain of evidence that Jane\u2019s allegations were false, it went through with its process under Title IX, costing John more than $100,000 in legal fees, court documents say.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the hearing, Jane submitted photographs of clothes she claimed to have worn the night of the alleged sexual assaults, saying it was stained with semen. The hearing officer \u2013 in a rare move not usually seen during campus hearings \u2013 had the clothing sent to a DNA lab, which ultimately found no semen on the clothes.<\/p>\n<p>On September 1, 2021, the Title IX hearing officer found John and Jacob not responsible for sexual assault. Jane did not appeal the determination, even though accusers are able to under campus Title IX policies.<\/p>\n<p>This should have ended John\u2019s ordeal, but as he alleges in his lawsuit, after he was thoroughly exonerated in an atmosphere typically hostile toward the accused, Jane and a campus organization allegedly spread the claim on campus that he was a rapist, going so far as to contact campus organizations to get John removed from them.<\/p>\n<p>Jane went to UMD\u2019s officially recognized student organization, Preventing Sexual Assault (PSA), and claimed to be a victim of sexual assault. As John noted in his lawsuit, PSA co-presidents Rachel Salem and Hailey Chaikin stated in a public forum that PSA had a special influence over UMD\u2019s Office for Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct (OCRSM), which helps coordinate the school\u2019s Title IX policies. Salem and Chaikin, according to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a blatant example of a school failing to protect a male student from false accusations of sexual assault, the University of Maryland-College Park (UMD) allowed an accuser and a powerful campus group to brand him a rapist even after the school determined he was not responsible, according to a lawsuit. 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