{"id":3050,"date":"2016-04-21T10:46:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T02:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/21\/rape-victims-face-honor-code-investigations-at-brigham-young-university\/"},"modified":"2016-04-21T10:46:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T02:46:02","slug":"rape-victims-face-honor-code-investigations-at-brigham-young-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/21\/rape-victims-face-honor-code-investigations-at-brigham-young-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape victims face honor code investigations at Brigham Young University"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PROVO, Utah \u2014 Madeline MacDonald says she was an 18-year-old freshman at Brigham Young University when she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on an online dating site.<\/p>\n

She reported the crime to the school’s Title IX office. That same day, she says, BYU’s honor code office received a copy of the report, triggering an investigation into whether MacDonald had violated the Mormon school’s strict code of behavior, which bans premarital sex and drinking, among other things.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Young women are the heroes of campus rape doc ‘The Hunting Ground’<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Now MacDonald is among many students and others, including a Utah prosecutor, who are questioning BYU’s practice of investigating accusers, saying it could discourage women from reporting sexual violence and hinder criminal cases. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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PROVO, Utah \u2014 Madeline MacDonald says she was an 18-year-old freshman at Brigham Young University when she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on an online dating site. She reported the crime to the school’s Title IX office. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2335,2336,2337,1112],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-college-rape","tag-crime-at-byu","tag-rape","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}