{"id":5527,"date":"2021-07-20T13:24:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2021-07-20T13:24:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:24:17","slug":"12-women-file-class-action-lawsuit-enabled-on-campus-rapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5527","title":{"rendered":"12 women file class action lawsuit, &#8216;enabled on-campus rapes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>15-year-old reported being sexually assaulted at a Liberty University camp, according to a class action lawsuit, but university police blamed her for violating the &ldquo;Liberty Way&rdquo; and needlessly had her strip naked and spread her butt cheeks for a photograph.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed Tuesday morning in U.S. District Court for the Eastern of New York, says that during the 2000 incident, Liberty threatened to charge the teenager with filing a false report, made her ride in a police car with her alleged attacker and questioned her without water or food for eight hours &mdash; all while failing to properly investigate her alleged attacker: Jesse Matthew, Jr., who went on to murder two college students years later.<\/p>\n<p>In advance of being filed, the lawsuit was provided to ABC13&rsquo;s Cynthia Beasley, who has been investigating for a year-and-a-half allegations that Liberty University violated Title IX rules, repeatedly threatened victims with honor code violations and downplayed sexual assault allegations.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t022n8j7jgg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15-year-old reported being sexually assaulted at a Liberty University camp, according to a class action lawsuit, but university police blam&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5527\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">12 women file class action lawsuit, &#8216;enabled on-campus rapes&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-5527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-women-file-class-action-lawsuit-enabled-on-campus-rapes","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1r9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5528,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions\/5528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}