New Data Unveils the Number of College Rapes Per Campus in Massachusetts
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
New data from the U.S. Department of Education reveals that Brown University has the highest number of reported rapes of any school in the U.S. — tying University of Connecticut with 43 rapes reported during 2014.
Brown, an Ivy League institution, has about 9,200 students, and UConn has about 26,500.
BELOW -- SEE THE DATA BY COLLEGE BELOW OF THE NUMBER OF RAPES AT MA COLLEGES
Central MA Schools
Assumption College had the highs number of reported rapes in 2014, the most recent year that the data is available for. Seven rapes were reported at Assumption. Holy Cross was second reporting five rapes.
College Rapes
Controversies regarding sexual assaults on college campuses have come to the forefront in the past couple of years. Most recently the issue has exploded tied to a rape case and a WPI student. In a lawsuit relating to a rape in 2012 in which a female Worcester Polytechnic Institute student was raped while studying in Puerto Rico. Lawyers for WPI have argued that the student was partially to blame for the rape in legal arguments.
The WPI administration has denied the school plames rape victims. “WPI has never and would never blame a victim for being raped,” Laurie Leshin President of WPI wrote in an email to WPI . “WPI strongly believes that the person responsible for this rape is the rapist. And he is in prison.”
At Stanford, swimmer Brock Turner was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2015 and received a six month sentence.
Dan Turner, father of Stanford swimmer Brock Allen Turner, is under scrutiny for his downplayed comments regarding his son's sexual assault case.
“His life will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve,” Dan A. Turner wrote arguing that his son should receive probation, not jail time. “That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life.”
At Brown University in April of 2014, student Lena Sclove levied a series of attacks against Brown University administrators for their handling of the discipline of her rape case.
A month later the accused rapist and Brown Student Daniel Koppin told his side of the story. "What she was saying was not true," Koppin told the Daily Beast.
In 2012, GoLocal released the secret recordings tied to another high profile rape case at Brown University in 2006, which made national headlines and landed a feature story in The New York Times.
Green highlighted are Central MA Schools
EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version published with an incorrect header. We apologize for the error.
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