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This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. One of two men accused of sexually assaulting a year-old woman at the College Street Bar knew she was getting increasingly intoxicated and that she passed out in a chair at the bar around p. DeJesus Carrasco denied this and said the complainant never appeared drunk that night. He maintained that the complainant never passed out, pointing out moments on the security video where she moves her head, arm and foot slightly while she is slumped over in a chair.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of is a comprehensive federal civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. It covers all students and staff in any educational institution or program that receives federal funding, including local school districts, colleges and universities, for-profit schools, career and technical education agencies, libraries, and museums. Although sexual harassment and sexual violence can happen to anyone, university and college women are disproportionately affected, impeding their safety, comfort, access to education, and ability to participate in campus life. Both sexual harassment and sexual violence are forms of sex discrimination covered under Title IX. Once a school knows of or reasonably should have known about sexual harassment or sexual assault on campus, Title IX requires the school to promptly investigate the complaint and take steps to protect its students.

The case is significant in that it is the first sex assault lawsuit against a university to reach a jury trial since , when the Obama administration rewrote the rules for how college officials should investigate and arbitrate sexual violence on campuses. Some activists who believe the Obama rules lacked due process for accused students have seized on the Boston College ruling as validation that these campus proceedings are unfair and potentially ruinous of the college and professional careers of those accused. The lawsuit stems from an episode that happened seven years ago. John Doe, as he is known in court filings, was a senior at the university in and on assignment for the student newspaper, The Heights , covering an event on a cruise ship sponsored by a university-sanctioned student group.

This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. Gavin MacMillan, 44, was testifying in his own defence after the complainant finished her fourth day of testimony. She had told the jury she could only remember bits and pieces of what happened that night, including being forced by MacMillan to perform oral sex.