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Feminism’s Excuse Factory: Nikki Yovino, Title IX and False Rape Accusations

  Nikki Yovino was a student at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., last fall when she accused two of the university’s football players of raping her at a party. The football players both admitted they had sex with Yovino, but said it was consensual. Police say Yovino subsequently confessed she had fabricated the rape […]

Rape Culture: ‘Teach Her a Lesson’

Justin Fedrick (left) and Keon Gordon (right) are wanted by police in Florida. Feminists have often lectured us in recent years about the plague of “rape culture” on elite university campuses, where “male privilege” is blamed for sexual violence against women alleged perpetrated by wealthy fraternity boys. We therefore cannot expect feminists to notice this […]

‘Campus Rape Epidemic’ Continues

  The Daily Mail reports: A California football player who had already been convicted of rape while he was in high school has been arrested yet again after allegedly raping a 19-year-old woman. Kishawn Holmes, 21, who was a standout football player and student at Cerritos College near Los Angeles, was taken into custody on […]

The ‘Campus Rape Epidemic’ Witch-Hunt

  Ashe Schow reports at the Washington Examiner: The number of lawsuits filed by students accused of campus sexual assault increased dramatically after the Education Department issued new guidance on how schools should tackle the issue. Further, the percentage of lawsuits filed by either party involved in an accusation shifted heavily toward the accused, according […]

Why Do College Girls Lie About Rape?

  Revenge. The most obvious motive for falsely accusing someone of a crime is apparent in a case at Brown University, where the former co-captain of the mock trial team alleges that he was the victim of what the College Fix calls “an elaborate revenge plot” by a girl on the team. According to a complaint […]

‘Rolling Stone’s Sole Source for the False Tale of Rape’ Must Testify in Lawsuit

  Jackie Coakley, the former University of Virginia student whose false story of a fraternity gang rape became the subject of a 2014 Rolling Stone story, will now be compelled to tell the truth under oath: A Virginia judge has ruled that the woman at the center of Rolling Stone’s discredited story about an alleged […]

‘Extremely Rare False Rape Accusations’

  Marc Patrick O’Leary is a serial rapist, a sexual predator who in 2011 was sentenced to more than 300 years in prison. He was convicted of four rapes in Colorado and two in Washington State. O’Leary’s modus operandi involved systematic surveillance of his targets, usually breaking into homes or apartments through unlocked sliding-glass doors […]

Dishonor: University Settles Lawsuit in Notorious ‘Regret Equals Rape’ Case

Terms of the settlement in John Doe v. Washington and Lee University are confidential, as is customary, but given the self-congratulatory tone of the university’s statement — which the plaintiff’s attorneys must have approved — my hunch is this: The university agreed to expunge this charge from John Doe’s record, pay his attorney’s fees, and […]

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