Stanford University could have tried to silence intimate attack victims, providing them cash in return for withdrawal of Title IX complaints they would lodged using the workplace for Civil Rights, BuzzFeed reported Wednesday.

Two ladies talked because of the web site in regards to the settlements Stanford apparently attempted to reach along with their solicitors. One made a decision to stay anonymous, nevertheless the other, 2014 graduate Leah Francis, stated the college offered her $60,000, fundamentally to cover therapy, if she’d withdraw her issue and end the investigation that is federal the college’s control of intimate misconduct allegations. The money was accepted by neither woman.

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In an emailed statement, Stanford’s Vice President for University Communications, Lisa Lapin, published that BuzzFeed’s tale “misrepresents the circumstances” — that the institution was indeed “respond[ing] to demands from [the complainants’] attorneys that Stanford spend money with their consumers or be up against expensive and time intensive litigation.” She proceeded:

Stanford just isn’t looking for and it has never ever wanted at all to finish the Title IX investigations and may maybe not achieve this no matter if it reached funds forestalling potential litigation with an party that is individual. We enjoy having all of the known facts in these instances turn out publicly in court, as privacy legislation precludes us from talking about the reality otherwise. The college has absolutely nothing to conceal about its control of the situations and contains no need to keep any intimate attack survivor from speaing frankly about any criticisms they might have of Stanford or its procedures.

“The recommendation that Stanford is resistant to reforms in its intimate attack policies and methods is wrong,” Lapin included. Continue reading “‘BuzzFeed’ report: Stanford offered pupils cash to withdraw assault that is sexual”