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Student Expelled after College Includes Rumors And Innuendo in Sex Assault Investigation

Ashe Schow

A Rollins College student in Orlando, Florida, has been expelled after a campus administrator allowed erroneous and irrelevant hearsay evidence into an investigation of campus sexual assault. The accuser also received generous accommodations that kept her from getting “another C” in a class and losing her scholarship. The accused student was not told about this potentially relevant information.

The accused student, John Doe as he is listed in court documents, was friends with his accuser, listed as Jane Roe, and spoke daily in the months before the alleged incident. John invited Jane to a Valentine’s Day-themed party at his fraternity on February 14, 2017. Both students consumed alcohol at the party and went to a local bar after, and that’s where their stories split.

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