"The Liberty Way": How Liberty Univ Discourages and Dismisses Students' Reports of Sexual Assault

[Nevilledog]

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Note: This story includes descriptions of sexual violence and attempted suicide.

When Elizabeth Axley first told Liberty University officials she had been raped, she was confident they’d do the right thing. After all, the evangelical Christian school invoked scripture to encourage students to report abuse.

“Speak up for those who can’t speak for themselves, for the rights of all who need an advocate. —Proverbs 31:8.” It was quoted in large type across an information sheet from the school’s office tasked with handling discrimination and abuse.

Axley was a first-year student at Liberty in the fall of 2017. She had been at the school less than three months. One Saturday night, she went to a Halloween party at an off-campus apartment and drank eight shots of vodka, along with a couple of mixed drinks. She doesn’t remember much after that, until, she recalls, waking up with a fellow student on top of her and his hand pressed over her mouth. (The student denies Axley’s allegations.)

After Axley returned to her dorm, she called the campus police department. One of the officers drove her to the local hospital, where, records show, a nurse documented 15 bruises, welts and lacerations on her arm, face and torso.

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[underpants]

1. Score I read the article I just want to say that this is an extremely patriarchal culture

Especially evangelicals. People write articles about why they backed Trump - he was what could stop the unimaginable and he did. It wasn’t Hillary herself , it was the idea of a woman being “in charge” being President. They don’t see women even as equals.

Okay reading the piece now.

[Silent3]

2. Extreme hypocrisy with brutal consequences at a fundie religious school?

Who'd have guessed?

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3. That purity culture must end at the point where Jerry Jr watches his wife enjoying adultery with the

That purity culture must end at the point where Jerry Jr watches his wife enjoying adultery with the pool boy.

[FakeNoose]

4. Female students of Liberty U. should just quit en masse

How many male students will want to stay at an all-boys school?
That's how you put them out of business.