Investigations
Secretive Justice: How Georgia colleges handle rape on campus
Georgia colleges tread where prosecutors won’t, but some claim secret tribunals unfair to the accused.
Students at Agnes Scott College show their support for sexual assault victims as part of a national day of action, Carry That Weight, last fall. Georgia colleges are struggling to create campus tribunals that respect victims and are fair to the accused. BRANT SANDERLIN / BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM
By Janel Davis
April 18, 2015“What you did to me was date rape. I told you no, multiple times. You went for it anyway.”
That’s how an Emory University graduate student learned last year that he was being accused of rape after what he believed was consensual sex with a classmate.
What followed was a four-month march through Emory’s secret process for judging sexual misconduct allegations.
“I was terrified,” the student told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Learn how sexual assault allegations are handled at Georgia’s largest universities. Explore the AJC’s interactive map of where sexual assaults occur on each campus. And find out what happened to the Emory student in the AJC’s exclusive investigation into the secretive world of campus tribunals. Only in the AJC.
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