(The college has a dorm, but Louk lived in an apartment.) Louk was outraged, particularly because the school planned to punish her for allegedly having premarital sex off campus. 24, the college issued a short statement to Louk stating that it would not do its own investigation of the alleged rape because the school did not have jurisdiction over an incident that took place off campus, citing Title IX regulations, according to the complaint. "I kept thinking this is just a crazy, horrible nightmare, and hopefully one day I’ll wake up from it." According to a copy of the contract reviewed by NBC News, Louk would be required to finish her degree online, barred from campus and prohibited from talking to other students about her alleged assault. The college wanted Louk to sign what it called a “pastoral care contract,” confessing to breaking rules on premarital sex.
I kept thinking this is just a crazy, horrible nightmare, and hopefully one day I’ll wake up from it.” “It didn’t seem real it didn’t feel real. Louk said it was untrue, but administrators told her she would be disciplined for breaking school rules. According to the complaint, the accused student had told the college that Louk had sex with her ex-boyfriend that semester, and the ex-boyfriend had confirmed it. The meeting’s focus then shifted to Louk’s relationship with her ex-boyfriend. Another administrator said if Louk disagreed, she should “take it up with the Memphis Police Department.” 15, a Visible Music College administrator told Louk and her parents that because police declined to charge the accused student, “there’s really nothing we can do at this point, so he will be attending classes like normal,” according to an audio recording of the meeting shared by Simon. “Instead of investigating the rape and providing support to Mara, Visible punished Mara for coming forward.” “Visible has retaliated against Mara in numerous ways,” Louk’s complaint says. The other would examine whether the school discriminated against Louk under the gender equity law Title IX. One would evaluate whether the school violated the Clery Act, a federal campus safety law that requires colleges to advise students who report a sexual offense of their rights and assistance options. Louk’s complaint asks the Department of Education to conduct two investigations of Visible Music College. “That’s truly how I felt for a long time because everything seemed to keep getting worse.” “I just felt like, why did I even speak up?” Louk, 22, said. And administrators attempted to bar Louk from telling anyone else at the school that she had been raped, she said. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Visible Music College administrators also told her they would not remove the accused student from her classes because police didn’t arrest him, nor would they conduct a Title IX investigation, because the alleged assault happened off campus.
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