Feds side largely with Catholic U. in civil rights case involving a report of rape
By Nick Anderson November 24 at 5:39 PM
Federal investigators found insufficient evidence to conclude that Catholic University violated a student’s civil rights after she reported in late 2012 that she had been raped on campus. But the Education Department’s civil rights unit determined that the university failed to uphold the rights of the accused male student, in violation of the anti-discrimination law known as Title IX.
The report from the Office for Civil Rights, or OCR, was quietly issued Oct. 31, culminating an investigation of nearly four years into an incident that involved two students, alcohol and a dispute over sexual consent. The case drew the Vatican’s university in America into the national debate over how schools handle reports of sexual violence.
[From 2014: Catholic student recounts struggle after reporting a sex assault]
Catholic said it was pleased with the outcome. “The findings reflect what we have consistently held: that the university responded promptly and equitably” to the woman’s allegations, the school said this week in a written statement.
The young man was not charged with any crime, and the university cleared him in 2013 of an allegation of sexual misconduct.
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