Liberty University Hit With Record Fines for Failing to Handle Complaints of #SexualAssault, Other #Crimes
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Spurred by a ProPublica investigation, the federal Department of Education found the evangelical #school in #Virginia had discouraged #students from reporting #rape and other crimes.

#News #College #Education #Assault #CriminalJustice #Law #LibertyUniversity

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Liberty University Hit With Record Fines for Failing to Handle Complaints of Sexual Assault, Other Crimes

Spurred by a ProPublica investigation, the federal Department of Education found the evangelical school in Virginia had discouraged students from reporting rape and other crimes.

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Here's our original investigation that detailed how officials had discouraged and dismissed women who tried to come forward with accounts of sexual assault.

Women who went to school officials to report being raped recalled being threatened with punishment for breaking the university’s strict moral code, known as “The Liberty Way.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-liberty-way-how-liberty-university-discourages-and-dismisses-students-reports-of-sexual-assaults

“The Liberty Way”: How Liberty University Discourages and Dismisses Students’ Reports of Sexual Assaults

The school founded by evangelist Jerry Falwell ignored reports of rape and threatened to punish accusers for breaking its moral code, say former students. An official who says he was fired for raising concerns calls it a “conspiracy of silence.”

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@ProPublica Absolutely vile. Big surprise, hardcore evangelicals have medieval attitudes to safeguarding, and shouldn't be let anywhere near running an educational establishment. Hard to imagine this was compliant with legal requirements, let alone public funding
@ProPublica Preview of Republican conservative regime..
@ProPublica Every time I see an article like this it makes me feel like my tiny contributions to PP have done some good.
@ProPublica The parents who send their kids to this school don’t want them to be allowed to read a book about sex until they finish high school. I guess this type of campus atmosphere is exactly what they want to subject them to. Why do they hate their own children so much?

@ProPublica This culture is based on the Susannah principle: that women are the embodiment of sex and sexual desire, and men, driven by the instinct to breed, cannot be expected to control themselves around a woman they find attractive. Women, therefore, are expected to be modest at all times and never put themselves in a situation in which they might "tempt" a man to sin.

Consent is entirely beside the point, of course. Women are thought to "consent" merely by being alone with a man.

@textualdeviance @ProPublica

UGH! That's a disgusting view of both men and women.

It posits that men are animals with no intelligence and no self-control, and women are not even people, just sexual objects that must be hidden away from uncontrollable male animals.

Why would people accept this sort of judgement about themselves?

@ProPublica
I hope ProPublica will continue its investigations. I suspect the findings at Liberty University could be confirmed at every institute of higher learning in the US.
@ProPublica It’s not Liberty University, it’s Liberty “University”

@ProPublica
Far right Christian nationalists seek to impose a 17th century patriarchy on the US. Liberty University represents the higher education setting for such a patriarchy.
The GOP is effectively dominated by Christian nationalists. The only way to defeat the GOP is to vote Democratic and not waste votes on impotent third parties.

#patriarchy #ChristianNationalists #TheFarRight #Republicans #theGOP #LibertyUniversity #VoteBlueNoMatterWho #Election2024 #USPolitics