Evidence And Witnesses Contradicted Her Claims, Yet Still He Was Suspended. A Judge Just Saved Him.

A male student at Princeton University was dating a female student (who now identifies as non-binary) on and off again for years. The relationship wasn’t ideal – he cheated on her and she was “verbally abusive and emotionally manipulative” towards him – and finally ended in early November 2017. Weeks later, the female student began making wildly inconsistent claims to her friends about alleged sexual abuse. Months later, and only after talking to a friend who convinced her she had been sexually assaulted, the woman reported an incident of sexual assault to campus officials.

The male student, referred to as John Doe in court documents, detailed the wildly different allegations that his ex, referred to as Alex Roe, made to her various friends. Alex told some friends that John sexually assaulted her in a single, “confusing and ambiguous” incident. Other friends were told he continually assaulted her throughout their relationship. Some were told John pinned Alex down and “raped” her, using the specific phrase “sex without consent,” while others were told John digitally penetrated her vagina. Some other people were told that Alex and John merely “kissed” after Alex said no to sex, but that she then said yes after John allegedly pressured her. She said she “might as well enjoy it” but told others that John asked her during sexual intercourse if he was assaulting her and she said no.