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She Accused Him Of Sexual Assault Two Years After Their Drunken Hookup. Now He’s Destitute.

Ashe Schow
She Accused Him Of Sexual Assault Two Years After Their Drunken Hookup. Now He’s Destitute.
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A reminder to college students — especially male students — that one drunken night can ruin your entire life.

This particular example comes from the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University (MSU). A male student, known only as Dev, attended a yearly event on April 23, 2016, known as the Med Ball. Before the main event, Dev met up with a few people he had met a few weeks earlier during a service trip to Cuba. They are being referred to as Harry, who hosted a pre-party to the Med Ball; Jillian, who had recently broken up with her boyfriend and had begun a friends-with-benefits relationship with Harry; and Valerie, who attended the Med Ball with Lucas, her husband she was about to divorce. The story has been reported at length by Reason’s Robby Soave.

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