A rape was reported last week near the UC Berkeley campus.
According to Berkeley Police Department Sgt. Mary Kusmiss, the rape occurred Jan. 29 at approximately 12:45 a.m. on the 2300 block of Warring Street, an area with at least two sororities and three fraternities nearby.
Kusmiss said she could not release any more information about the case, though she said the crime is classified as an acquaintance rape, meaning that the victim knew the sexual assailant personally.
In nine of 10 sexual assault cases, the victim knows the attacker, who might be an intimate partner, friend, coworker or person in a position of authority, according to UC Berkeley’s University Health Services’ website.
Berkeley “experiences very few ‘stranger’ rapes or sexual assaults in which a suspect climbs in a window or grabs a victim behind a home,” Kusmiss said in an email. She added that in instances of rape, it is rare for the attacker to be completely unknown to the victim.
Berkeley Police Department did not release further information regarding the case as to “not compromise the investigation or ‘tip’ the suspect as to what we know,” Kusmiss said in the email.
Jonathan Tam covers crime.
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the same jerk lawyer that UC pays for horrible legal advice regarding threats of student violence on campus has a nice cottage industry in the sex assault legal clinic business:
http://www.phillymag.com/articles/the_new_rules_of_college_sex/page1
The liquor’s gone to Diane’s head. On the dance floor, she makes eye contact with Jack. He maneuvers his way toward her. She grabs him by the crotch, then whirls around and pushes against him, letting him grind away. Jack can’t believe it—she’s so pretty. She smells so good.
“I can’t hear myself think in here, it’s so loud!” he shouts into her ear.
She smiles at him. “What?”
“Too loud!” He takes her hand and leads her outside, into the autumn night. She looks at him expectantly. He puts his arms around her, pulling her close, and begins to kiss her. She drapes against him. He touches her breast, and when she doesn’t protest, does it again. He moves his hands to her rear, cupping her buttocks. She kisses him back, frantically eager. He reaches underneath her dress.
Jack doesn’t know it, but he’s just created what the Department of Education calls a “hostile environment” for women on his campus—a violation of Title IX for which his college could lose all federal funding. Should Diane press sexual assault charges against him with the school, he’ll be tried in a judicial hearing that fails to guarantee him the most basic American legal rights—the right to counsel, the right to confront his accuser, the right not to be convicted unless found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. He could well be expelled, and have a record that will hound him should he try to get into another school.
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Sokolow has been advising colleges that students found to have engaged in sexual assault should be expelled as quickly as possible, to guard against Title IX liability. He’d like to see a national database of offenders, so schools could check names and Social Security numbers when such students try to transfer. He’s not saying they’re all predators-—“I’m saying you can’t tell if they are or not.” Asked if he’d accept a transfer student who’d been expelled for sexual assault, Juniata’s Kris Clarkson says, “Oh gosh, no. How could I?” And yet, Deborah Nolan says, “I’ve seen these young men broken in ways that just break me, too. I see such shock and remorse and guilt. They want to make it right.”
sometimes the reports are legit., but sometimes they are not:
http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/