This relates to a topic which has occasionally come up in different threads. It pertains to a growing 'pushback' by guys who have been accused of rape and/or sexual assault. The rash of lawsuits now being brought could also have a significant future impact on exotic dancers and camgirls !!!
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(snip)in his junior year at Drew University in Madison, N.J., Parisi was accused of forcing a fellow student — one who is now a professional athlete — to have sex with him.
He was kicked off campus and placed under investigation. Three months went by before he was found "not responsible" in a campus disciplinary proceeding. Local police never filed charges against him.
Being accused, however, was enough to cause his world to collapse. Now he is suing Drew for assuming he was guilty from the outset and treating him as such until it was determined he was innocent.
He is also suing his accuser and her boyfriend at the time, claiming they concocted the false allegation to preserve their relationship. The Washington Examiner has chosen not to publish their names.(snip)
(snip)Parisi is one of at least 30 men who are striking back against campus rules on sexual assault that deny them due process by assuming their guilt. Their ranks have quadrupled since 2011.
This reversal of one of the bedrock principles of the American justice system stems from a bizarre interpretation of the Title IX provision in the Education Amendments of 1972 designed to protect women from discrimination.
The interpretation has been forced on universities by the Obama administration, and it thrives on many American college campuses, thanks to politically correct cultures that take women's words at face value while assuming the worst about men.
Elizabeth Price Foley, a Florida International University law professor, described the problem with the interpretation of Title IX as benefiting women at the expense of men in a “he said/she said” situation.
“The Department of Education under the Obama administration has adopted shockingly broad new guidelines under Title IX that not only encompass off-campus behavior — that should be no business of a college or university — but also require the use of a low ‘preponderance of the evidence’ standard for sexual assault claims,” Price Foley told the Examiner.
“The individuals who hear these claims are generally predisposed to find in favor of a female accuser, and young men are sometimes severely punished by colleges and universities based on little more than a bare accusation made by someone whose memory of events is questionable,” she added.
Parisi considers himself lucky because he was found not guilty, which is not the norm in these cases.
His lawyers, Solomon Rubin, Andrew Miltenberg and Kimberly Lau — who are representing at least three of the 30 men who have filed lawsuits — say they get multiple phone calls every week from college students whose due process rights were violated after being accused of sexual assault on campus. Unlike Parisi, however, most are found guilty by their universities.
“It’s a delicate situation for everyone, but that doesn’t justify totally disregarding his rights, his health, his emotional health, his well-being on campus,” Lau told the Examiner.
“He’s a student, too, just as much as the other two. And he was treated as guilty from the start. And that’s the problem,” Lau added.
Parisi's lawsuit accuses the university of sex discrimination and violating its own guidelines on conducting investigations. He also claims the university failed to investigate whether his accusers deliberately filed a false report.(snip)
This recent rash of 30 lawsuits brought by guys accused of rape and/or sexual assault are the arguable aftermath of the recent Duke Lacross Players and Dominic Strauss-Kahn cases. As you probably recall, in those cases the guy was falsely accused of rape. LE took the guys into custody, and mainstream media reported the rape charges immediately, causing resulting 'significant and irreversible damage' to the accused guys. However, after the 'discovery' process was completed in preparation for trial, in both cases it was discovered that the charges were bogus ... and brought by a girl with an 'adult' industry background. However, it was also officially noted that the mere accusation of rape / sexual assault, and the resulting negative media publicity, had in fact caused 'significant and irreversable damage' to the guys who were bogusly accused ... damage that neither the court nor the bogus accuser could 'make whole'.
At the core of the significant and irreversible damage issue was / is the present system of 'prosecution'. Campus / City law enforcement is essentially required to presume that the accused guy is guilty, often based solely on the word of the accuser in the absence of 'hard evidence' or 3rd party witnesses. Rape shield laws prevent the accused guy from 'confronting his accuser' until the decision has already been made to take action / bring charges ( with resulting mainstream media publicity, which immediately causes the significant and irreversible damage ).
The recent rash of 30 lawsuits all attempt to change the present system of 'prosecution'. They attempt to require Campus / City LE to treat the accuser and accused equally ... with the hoped for result being that the accuser will be as thoroughly investigated as the accused BEFORE action will be taken / charges will be brought against the accused. And that will mean that an accuser who has an 'adult' industry background may no longer be able to successfully bring rape and/or sexual assault charges in the absence of 'hard evidence' or 3rd party witness corroboration that said rape and/or sexual assault was truly a case of rape and/or sexual assault ... because the College / City will be exposing themselves to liability for the significant and irreversible damage which is created the second the College / City LE takes action against the accused for rape and/or sexual assault.
The obvious concern is that, if these changes to the present system of 'prosecution' go as the 30 lawsuits hope, any future rape and/or sexual assault complaint made by an exotic dancer or camgirl, in the absence of 'hard evidence' ( like a security tape ) or 3rd party witness corroboration, is going to immediately raise LE suspicion that the complaint is bogus. Even with DNA evidence etc., the accused guy will be able to make the case that the accusations stem from a 'pay for play' situation gone wrong etc. As such, Colleges and Cities are highly unlikely to expose themselves to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of 'significant and irreversible damage' lawsuits by actually taking action / bringing charges against the accused guy based on a 'he said / she said' situation involving a girl with an 'adult' industry background.



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