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Female raped in alley awarded damages in Australia

August 7, 2020 By Hank Nuwer Leave a Comment

Here is the link. Victim name withheld. Excerpt.

 

A former Australian National University student who was raped in an alleyway during a boozy hazing ritual has sued the university college and been awarded damages of $420,000.

The incident happened during a 2015 drinking spree of ANU John XXIII College students, organised by its residents association.

The ‘Pub Golf’ event involved student leaders taping bottles of Passion Pop to the hands of participants, who would have to drink a certain amount to make “par”.

“There seems to be little doubt that the intent of the evening centred on the over consumption of alcohol,” Supreme Court Justice Elkaim said in his judgement on Friday.

By 9:00pm the students were very drunk and college staff ordered them to clear out. They went to several licensed drinking venues. The young law and commerce student was raped in an alleyway alongside the third of these, named Mooseheads.

She woke in her own bed the following day with her jeans and underwear pulled down.

She had no memory of what had happened to her, but 10 days later a close friend heard the offender boasting about his “success” on Pub Golf night.

The woman then went to the man’s room where she taped a conversation in which he said they had sex in the alleyway.

“I feel bad though, hey,” he also sai

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