This year, six women reported being sexually assaulted at various Georgia university fraternities, according to a new list compiled by Gawker. Three of the women said they were raped in 2012.
That number is part of a project compiled by Gawker writer Allie Jones, and ostensibly spans any fraternity, anwhere. Her report has a compelling thesis: "Statistically speaking, fraternity men are three times more likely to commit rape than their non-Greek peers," she wrote.
- In October, two women sued Georgia Tech's Phi Tau chapter "claiming they were raped by the same brother at different parties," Jones wrote. The women said they were raped in late 2013 and in November 2012, respectively. (Tech's Phi Tau chapter had previously come under investigation following a leaked email by a brother advising other members how to "lure rapebait.")
- On Oct. 31, a woman reported being raped by an acquaintance at Emory's Sigma Alpha Epsilon house.
- On Feb. 12, a woman reported being assaulted at Emory's Sigma Nu house.
- In January, two Georgia State University students sued Georgia Tech's Phi Gamma Delta chapter. "One claims she was drugged and assaulted at a house party, and the other says she was drugged and raped on a Phi Gamma Delta spring break trip to New Orleans," Jones wrote. The women said they were raped in April and May of 2012, respectively.
The reportedly endemic mishandling of sexual assault cases on campuses nationwide has become a major political issue in recent years, as many policies have faced intense scrunity from both students' and victims' rights advocates -- as in a New York Times story published Monday, about a Columbia University student cleared in three seperate sexual assault complaints who still faces backlash on campus. The women called the disciplinary process, which didn't result in a punishment, contradictory and humiliating; he called the aftermath "bullying."
Gawker's list includes more than 35 different reported assaults at fraternities in 2014.
Georgia campuses have not been immune to reports of sexual assault.
"Campus police at nine of Georgia's largest universities logged 152 allegations of rapes and sodomies since 2010, according to law enforcement documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution," our Janel Davis and Shannon McCaffrey wrote in a recent investigation. "Not one resulted in criminal prosecution."
Click here for exclusive maps of the sexual assualts that have been reported at Georgia's nine largest universities.
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