Slate
8.1.16 | Christina Cauterucci
In the wake of a recent sexual assault scandal that led to the ouster of its football coach and president, Baylor University is coming under fire for a conduct code that critics say may shame sexual assault victims into silence.
The conservative Baptist school forbids drinking, drug use, and premarital sex; the campus conduct code states that “physical sexual intimacy is to be expressed in the context of marital fidelity.” Chad Dunn, a lawyer representing six women who’ve brought a lawsuit against the university for failing to address their reports of sexual assault, told the Associated Press that the school threatened some of his clients when they came forward with a rape allegation.
“A number of victims were told that if they made a report of rape, their parents would be informed of the details of where they were and what they were doing,” Dunn said.
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