'My hope is that no one else will have the experience that I had,' she added. 'I hear my story over and over and over again from different people.'
Forgot to mention that negligent training is actionable, i.e., the university can be sued for that for damages. While the Harvard University campus police fail to protect women students on campus they abuse their privileges by harassing a 70-year-old white male who they say is crazy. One black homosexual police employee or officer stalked me for more than 15 years even after my complaints to the university office of general counsel. The same officer called me a "space cadet" to my face showing his animosity toward persons he perceives as vulnerable. Moreover he is a black homosexual who claims victimhood abusing his police power attacking a vulnerable person. What a guy!
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When did state courts, local police stop accepting rape complaints? Did HUPD refer the complaint to the District Attorney for Middlesex? If not is this one more example of negligent training?
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I posted a comment which was deleted that HUPD may be negligently trained if they did not refer this woman's complaint to the District Attorney for Middlesex. It is one more example of poor training of these police who nonsensically claim exclusive jurisdiction on Harvard University property. "HUPD, like man, must know its limitations." Paraphrasing Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry.
[From article]
The suit traces several interactions Leader said she had with University administrators regarding sexual harassment over the course of about two years. According to the suit, Leader first reported Doe’s conduct to Harvard’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response in spring 2013, and again in September 2014. On Nov. 6, 2014, the suit states, Leader met with Cabot Resident Dean Tiffanie L. Ting and claimed that Doe had sexually harassed her in Cabot dining hall and cafe, among other places. The suit alleges that Ting discouraged Leader from filing a formal complaint and said Doe could not be moved from Cabot. Ting could not be reached for comment.
“I think that the biggest takeaway from the complaint is that she recorded multiple times not only that she was sexually assaulted, but that there was retaliatory and ongoing harassment from the perpetrator and his friends,” Zalkin said. “Notwithstanding, Harvard did nothing to protect her and make her feel safe on campus, which is basically the whole purpose of Title IX.”
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Leader reported Doe to the Office of Sexual and Gender-Based Dispute Resolution in February 2015, prompting a formal investigation, and updated ODR investigators on Doe’s alleged retaliatory conduct—including threatening comments and increased presence at Leader’s workplace, Cabot Cafe—according to the suit. She also reported sexual assault to the Harvard University Police Department in April.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/2/18/lawsuit-sexual-harassment-2016/
Recent Graduate Sues Harvard Over Sexual Harassment Case
By ANDREW M. DUEHREN and DAPHNE C. THOMPSON
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
UPDATED: February 18, 2016, at 2:15 a.m.
Alyssa Leader, a recent Harvard graduate, has sued the Ivy League school over allegations she was forced to live in the same building as her ex-boyfriend after he sexually assaulted her during their relationship.
[From article]
A Harvard graduate is suing the school over allegations she was forced to live in the same building as her ex-boyfriend after he sexually assaulted her during their relationship.
Alyssa Leader, who left in 2015, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Massachusetts claiming the Ivy League institution failed to act when she complained about the alleged abuser.
The lawsuit says Leader told campus officials that a male student who lived in her dorm had been sexually abusive while they dated but that Harvard refused to move him to another hall.
Leader says they failed to protect her from retaliation after she reported the abuse and one official even discouraged her from filing a formal complaint.
During a press conference on Wednesday, Leader said: 'Harvard has an institutional culture of ignoring and silencing people like me.
'My hope is that no one else will have the experience that I had,' she added. 'I hear my story over and over and over again from different people'
The lawsuit, seen by the Boston Globe, says Leader's alleged abuser got back at her by becoming threatening and irate when she resisted him.
He allegedly harassed her at her job in the dormitory cafe, and made threatening comments to her in the dining hall.
Despite her reports, she said, school officials did not issue a no-contact order and he was allowed to continue living in her dormitory.
Leader said she was also targeted by her friends, who would sit outside her job so she would have to pass by them when she left.
She said she was forced to carry pepper spray in her dormitory,
Living in constant fear, she never sat with her back to a door and blocked doors when she went in rooms on her own.
Harvard says it responds fairly to all allegations of sexual assault.
The alleged abuser was moved out of the dorm a month before Leader graduated.
She says it was too little too late.
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Alyssa Leader, a recent Harvard graduate, has sued the Ivy League school over allegations she was forced to live in the same building as her ex-boyfriend after he sexually assaulted her during their relationship.
[From article]
A Harvard graduate is suing the school over allegations she was forced to live in the same building as her ex-boyfriend after he sexually assaulted her during their relationship.
Alyssa Leader, who left in 2015, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Massachusetts claiming the Ivy League institution failed to act when she complained about the alleged abuser.
The lawsuit says Leader told campus officials that a male student who lived in her dorm had been sexually abusive while they dated but that Harvard refused to move him to another hall.
Leader says they failed to protect her from retaliation after she reported the abuse and one official even discouraged her from filing a formal complaint.
During a press conference on Wednesday, Leader said: 'Harvard has an institutional culture of ignoring and silencing people like me.
'My hope is that no one else will have the experience that I had,' she added. 'I hear my story over and over and over again from different people'
The lawsuit, seen by the Boston Globe, says Leader's alleged abuser got back at her by becoming threatening and irate when she resisted him.
He allegedly harassed her at her job in the dormitory cafe, and made threatening comments to her in the dining hall.
Despite her reports, she said, school officials did not issue a no-contact order and he was allowed to continue living in her dormitory.
Leader said she was also targeted by her friends, who would sit outside her job so she would have to pass by them when she left.
She said she was forced to carry pepper spray in her dormitory,
Living in constant fear, she never sat with her back to a door and blocked doors when she went in rooms on her own.
Harvard says it responds fairly to all allegations of sexual assault.
The alleged abuser was moved out of the dorm a month before Leader graduated.
She says it was too little too late.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3451803/Lawsuit-accuses-Harvard-mishandling-sex-assault-complaint.html
Harvard graduate sues the university claiming she was forced to live in the same dorm as ex-boyfriend who sexually abused her when they dated
Alyssa Leader filed a lawsuit against the Ivy League school on Tuesday
It claims they failed to act when she complained about the former partner
She told officials he was abusive to her, but they refused to move him
Leader claims he then retaliated by harassing her at a dormitory cafe
He would also allegedly make threatening comments in the dining room
The court documents say she lived in constant fear before graduating
By WILLS ROBINSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 16:21 EST, 17 February 2016 | UPDATED: 20:10 EST, 17 February 2016
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