© Screen captureSarah Tubbs
A woman who graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook claims that the university forced her to litigate her own sexual assault case in a student tribunal and never contacted authorities on her behalf following an attack that took place in 2014.
According to LoHud.com, 22-year-old Sarah Tubbs said that she was sexually assaulted after an alcohol-fueled party on Jan. 26, 2014. Stony Brook badly botched its handling of the subsequent investigation, Tubbs says, and she is now suing the university for Title IX violations.
Tubbs — who graduated from the university in May — said that after the party in 2014, at which she had played drinking games and consumed multiple alcoholic beverages, she accompanied a male friend back to his dorm room with the intention of having sex.
When they arrived at his room, Tubbs' lawsuit says,
she realized she was seriously intoxicated and told her companion that she did not want to engage in sexual activity at that time.The male student reportedly ignored her and went on to orally sodomize her without her consent, to penetrate her vagina with his fingers and to attempt vaginal intercourse.Tubbs said that she was only semi-conscious during the attack and at some points, she blacked out altogether.
"I froze and there were parts of the night where I couldn't fight because it's not an option," she said to LoHud.
Two days after the attack, Tubbs screwed up her courage and reported the assault to campus police. She was ordered to undergo a hospital rape exam first, then to return to the campus police office and report the rape.
Tubbs said she followed instructions, and two weeks after the assault, she filed a formal complaint. However, the officer who heard her complaint reportedly told her that his department could not help her because she did not scream "No!" or physically fight back.
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