University of Wisconsin-Whitewater wrestling a sexual assault lawsuit
On college campuses, it is estimated that between 20–25% of women will victims of rape/ attempted rape, and 9 out of 10 woman know their offender, and less than 1/3 of cases reported result in expulsion.
Coach Fader was pressured to resign from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater after reporting two sexual assault cases to authorities. The first allegation Fader reported was in January, 2013, which he claims went undocumented by university officials.
The second allegation reported was in April, 2014 when the mother of the victim contacted Fader. The offender was a potential recruit for the wrestling team.
Faders attorney, Stan Davis, states that “He did what any parents who have a daughter at our college would have wanted to happen”.
Fader contacted police immediately after he received the call and arranged to take the suspect to the station for question. Police denied to charge the 21-year-old student.
Fader was pulled into interim director Amy Edmonds office and was told “ We could both lose our jobs over this” Shortly after, the two met with Chancellor Richard Tefler, who told Fader that he violated school policy by not reporting the incident to the university first. He then goes on to say that “Someone in this room will have to explain this”
After, the university declined to renew Faders contract, pressuring him to resign.
The victim of the assault old police that she blacked out at an off campus party and woke to bloody sheets, shorts, and anal pain. Evidence was collected of the sheets and shorts, as well as a rape kit and cheek swabs of the suspected offender.
The unnamed victim tells WISC-TV that “I don’t think anybody should be treated the way that I was. It was worse than the assault, a lot worse. I regret with everything, coming forward and saying anything.”
Former 4.0 student and volunteer EMT Raechel Liska told WISC-TV that the former dean violated her civil rights by refusing to interview witnesses of her own assault and by not accepting medical records or police reports.
An anonymous email sent to the dean of students would soon become reason for Faders suspension. He was sent home with sexual assault packet and video.
In a meeting during June 2014, Edmonds admitted that she had kept no written record of the allegation, which is a massive violation of federal law, according to the lawsuit.
Telfer released a vague email hinting at the fact that Fader himself had been involved in some sort of sexual assault case, and because of this, he had been uninvited from an elementary school event where he was supposed to speak because “school officials were not clear as to whether he was allowed to be around children based on Telfer’s letter,” Davis stated. Fader is horrified with the incident, stating that “It’s excruciating to hear that… to somehow be attached to the sexual assault”
Sexual assault on campus is nothing to be brushed under the rug, and is certainly nothing to be blamed on another person. In trying to save the school reputation, it has only damaged it further in trying to cover up such a massive scandal and violation.
