Thursday, March 20, 2008

Possible campus rape at CA university

The Belmont, CA police department is investigating a report of a rape on the campus of Notre Dame De Namur University. It allegedly occured at 4:30 AM Sunday, March 16 when after a man and a woman went back into a dorm, and the woman allegedly was assaulted.

"We're dealing with the statements of two different people saying different things and we're trying to make sense of it," said Lt. Kevin Daly, of the Belmont police.

The university's Chief of Public Safety David Mefford implied that there was drinking involved.
"When you have alcohol involved and students are partying, things do happen," Mefford said.
Daley said he could not release any personal information about the female or male, but he believes students should not be fearful.


"We don't have a predator problem," he said. "It's still under investigation. It's an isolated incident and it does not pose a threat."

Mefford said that in his 20 years of working on campus, he's never seen or heard of a sexual assault case that involved a stranger and that usually they stem from mixing alcohol and acquaintances.

The campus website stated that sexual assaults which are forcible only occur an average of once a year since 2005

I disagree. Some sexual predators only have one long term victim, and some serial rapists operate as "boyfriends" who date rape their victims after gaining her trust, then leaving her for the next victim. Sexual predators usually, but don't have to have multiple victims.

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