Virginia Wesleyan College Demands Names Of Rape Victim’s Sexual Partners

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Virginia Wesleyan College is asking for the names of a rape victim’s boyfriends and sexual partners since her rape in August 2012 as part of a filling in the victim’s civil suit against the college, the Huffington Post reported Monday.

In the June filing in Norfolk Circuit Court in Virginia, the school wrote: “Given the significance of these claims in a case where $10 million is at issue, VWC feels compelled to explore Plaintiff’s sexual history.”

The school said it wanted to talk to her first partner after the assault to confirm the “trauma she claimed to have endured after being raped,” according to the Huffington Post.

The woman is suing the college as Jane Doe and is seeking $10 million in damages from the liberal arts school.

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  1. “Oh no problem sirs, here’s my first partner’s name: Fuck You.”

  2. How about the college be forced to name every alleged and proven rapist they’ve ever let through their doors and ignored…

  3. Are they asking or demanding, TPM? Also, what was the victim wearing?

  4. “… feels compelled to explore Plaintiff’s sexual history.”

    Creepy choice of words as well. This lawyer has a future working for the GOP.

  5. Yeah, it’s appalling. But it’s also a typical legal tactic to intimidate someone into dropping a suit. (And also a way to get other people from never suing in the first place.)

    Hardball law is disgusting.

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