{"id":5552,"date":"2021-10-25T08:34:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T12:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2021-10-25T08:34:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T12:34:38","slug":"liberty-university-sued-for-conspiracy-of-silence-over-sex-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5552","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University sued for &#8216;conspiracy of silence&#8217; over sex assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University, the Lynchburg, Virginia-based Christian university co-founded by the late Jerry Falwell Sr, would penalize the young women who came forward by claiming they violated the &lsquo;Liberty Way,&rsquo; according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Liberty University, founded by Jerry Falwell, threatened to punish  students who reported being raped. <\/p>\n<p>An official told us he was just fired for raising concerns. He called it \u201cconspiracy of silence.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PxrCQ8avn4\">https:\/\/t.co\/PxrCQ8avn4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hannah_Dreyfus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hannah_dreyfus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Umansky (@ericuman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericuman\/status\/1452417630304935944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We asked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibertyU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LibertyU<\/a> detailed Qs about it threatening to punish students who report rape<\/p>\n<p>Silence<\/p>\n<p>Then\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hannah_Dreyfus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Hannah_Dreyfus<\/a> heard from their VP of comms. Who told us he\u2019d just been fired for trying to get Liberty to acknowledge the truth<\/p>\n<p>He told us it all<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PxrCQ8avn4\">https:\/\/t.co\/PxrCQ8avn4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MunwtnSpCe\">pic.twitter.com\/MunwtnSpCe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Umansky (@ericuman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericuman\/status\/1452426730803798020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10127129\/Liberty-University-sued-conspiracy-silence-sexual-assault.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University, the Lynchburg, Virginia-based Christian university co-founded by the late Jerry Falwell Sr, would penalize the young wom&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5552\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University sued for &#8216;conspiracy of silence&#8217; over sex assaults<\/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":[224],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-university-sued-for-conspiracy-of-silence-over-sex-assaults","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1ry","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","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=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5553,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/5553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}