Quinnipiac spokesman John Morgan said that the school doesn’t comment on pending litigation. The lawsuit said the school failed to implement safeguards against sexual assaults or create a way for students to confidentially report sexual assaults. The lawsuit alleges that Quinnipiac was negligent because it should have known Alpha Sigma Phi had received numerous complaints of sexual assault by its members, failed to properly monitor the fraternities or warn female students of the potential danger. The victim suffered physical injuries and severe psychological damage and eventually had to drop out of school. The victim repeatedly said no and tried to resist the group of men.Ī criminal complaint was made to the Hamden police department. The assailants ripped off her clothes and assaulted her numerous times, the lawsuit said. As she went to the door she was shoved from behind into a dark bedroom where she was “sexually abused, sexually assaulted and sexually exploited” by at least three members of the fraternity, according to the lawsuit. At some point the victim tried to go to the bathroom. The victim and some her friends attended the party where there was heavy drinking. The lawsuit alleges that it was a fraternity party advertised by Alpha Sigma Phi members. The university doesn’t have specific fraternity houses, although it does allow fraternities.
27, 2017 at a university-owned house at 114 New Road in Hamden. The lawsuit alleges the rape took place at a party on Oct. In her motion to seal the names Goffe said only said that “the sensitivity of the allegations as brought against each individual defendant” as a reason to seal their names. Meade wrote in his motion objecting to the unusual sealing. “The defendant further notes that while the plaintiff claims to have been the victim of a rape, the plaintiff doesn’t seek to protect her own privacy as an alleged victim, but rather inexplicably seeks to protect the purported interest of the alleged rapists,” attorney Paul D. 3 hearing on an objection by attorneys for the fraternity to keeping the alleged accusers names secret. Judge James Wilson Abrams has scheduled a Feb. The suit also alleges that Quinnipiac has ignored a long history of sexual abuse at campus fraternities.īut in a twist the student, whose name the Courant is not publishing because she is an alleged victim of sexual assault, has filed a motion with the court to keep the names of at least three of her attackers secret. The lawsuit filed in November accuses the university and the Alpha Sigma Phi organization for failing to properly supervise the atmosphere at the party. A former Quinnipiac University student suing the school and a national fraternity alleging that she was sexually assaulted by at least three males at a fraternity party in 2017 is now trying to keep the names of her attackers secret.
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