Boyd MarkhamEveryone loves a good college love story. Guy meets girl at a party. They hit it off right away. The “I don’t do this on the first night” girl does it on the first night. Girl brags about the great guy she met to all her friends. They have sex again.
Girl sees boy make out with another girl, claims she was (retroactively) raped 8 months after their initial encounter. Guy gets expelled from the university without a proper investigation.
The College Fix reported on the incident:
The plaintiff was a junior in the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at the university when the alleged assault occurred. According to the judge’s memorandum, the students met at a February 2014 party held off campus, where they both consumed alcohol, made-out, then went back to the defendant’s dorm room where they engaged in sexual intercourse.
Before the encounter, the plaintiff said he recalled the defendant saying, “I usually don’t have sex with someone I meet on the first night, but you are a really interesting guy.
The next morning, John Doe’s roommate said “he woke up to hear them talking and the ‘tone of voices was normal and nothing indicated to [him] that anything strange had occurred between them,’ and he recalls that he ‘got a positive vibe from [plaintiff] about the encounter’ afterward.
Following that evening, they became friends on social media – and later she replied to one of his texts, saying she agreed they had a pretty good connection. They continued to socially interact at parties, and reportedly engaged in intercourse for a second time.
That all changed when the mystery woman, who chose to keep her identity a secret, saw the defendant kissing another girl at a St. Patrick’s Day party. She left the party early and upset.
Over the summer, she had an epiphany. Finally, 8 months after the initial intercourse, the woman reported the ‘rape’ to Washington and Lee University’s Title IX officer, Lauren Kozak.
Kozak argued that for college aged woman, “regret equals rape”. At the time of this writing, Kozak is somehow still employed with the university.
That’s right, she argued that regret, 8 months later, equals rape. Quite a serious precedent.
The ‘investigation’ of the rape was practically a kangaroo court. To name a few things, the male was not allowed legal representation, had only 6 hours to respond the allegations, and had some of his witnesses outright ignored.
Even though two of the girl’s own witnesses contradicted her story, and the girl’s version of events had plenty of inconsistency’s, the guy was expelled from the university following the brief investigation.
He sued the university shortly after the expulsion under grounds of gender bias.
It took two years, but in February of 2016, the male student settled with Washington and Lee University. The outcome of the settlement is still unknown, but Washington and Lee denied the charges of gender bias.
