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Related: About this forumBaylor official called women who reported sexual assault 'mentally ill,' ex-Title IX coordinator say
Baylor University's former Title IX coordinator said a top school official referred to women who made allegations of sexual assault as having mental illness, a claim he has denied.
Patty Crawford made the claim about Reagan Ramsower, Baylor's senior vice president for operations, during an interview on 60 Minutes Sports on Showtime that aired Tuesday.
She said the statement came during an emergency meeting in former university President Ken Starr's office after football player Sam Ukwuachu was convicted of sexual assault in September 2015.
"It seemed like it came from the fact that one of the women ... was suicidal," Crawford said. "I said, 'No ... the incidents themselves have caused traumatic response in these women. They are not mentally ill.'"
Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/higher-education/2016/11/01/baylor-official-called-women-reported-sexual-assault-mentally-ex-title-ix-coordinator-says
Warpy
(111,169 posts)or young women need to give that particular school a miss.
Since women now outnumber men in college enrollment, that would give them a swift kick in the bank account that would make them take sexual assault more seriously.
get the red out
(13,460 posts)We know how much Baptists value women.
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)How devastating sexual assault could be to a young woman, how emotionally distressing.
Shame on BU. No wonder the ncaa was praying they'd lose a football game so they could be ignored in rankings.