“Two Students Hooked Up. It Was Clearly Consensual. He Still Spent $12,000 Defending Himself.” (Reason) contains more detail than you’d want about the activities of a couple of UC Davis students. It is interesting, though, because it shows the minimum time and cost of a college sex tribunal defense. The official investigation began in January and was terminated in May. The defendant incurred legal bills of $12,000 as well as more than three months of uncertainty regarding his university education.
The mom in this story is not too pleased about the situation. Perhaps parents should budget for legal defense costs when sending sons off to college? Or encourage enrollment at an online university such as Western Governors University instead? If the teenage boy is at work during the day (perhaps in an all-male occupation?) and on the computer doing a class at night, how much trouble can he get into?
Related:
- “Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (a.k.a. majoring in partying and football)” (where “winning” means spending more like $1 million on legal defense)
Wait! You can hire a hooker for less than that (unless the said hooker is Stormy Daniels).
Actually, a hooker in the Mumbai Red Lamp district charges at most $5/hr, and every taxi driver in the city knows how to get there fast 😉
My alma mater in the news again.
@anon, very true. Even better, you can take a whole month vacation traveling the world for less than that and get laid while at it too. This goes along with Phil’s idea of traveling over seas to get a surgery done.
@Phil, isn’t there a case for the student to sue the school for not providing the proper training to prevention from something like this from happening? After all the school requires student to sign a bunch of papers so they are not held responsible if something happens to their students while on campus.
Feminists always said rape was about power.
I think they meant “Rape Inc.” was about power: the power to destroy any man, any time, over absolutely nothing.