PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: Rape charge dropped, Saint Peter’s student plans to sue.

A Saint Peter’s University student who was arrested and accused of raping a fellow student last November before the charge was dropped one month later plans to sue Hudson County and its prosecutor’s office, saying their case against him was “frivolous from the start.”

Jean S. Jecrois, 19, who spent 20 days in Hudson County jail on a second-degree sexual assault charge before the charge was dismissed, says in a notice of claim to Hudson County and the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office that officers who arrested him on Nov. 12, 2014 relied on conflicting statements from the alleged victim to build their case.

Officers also put a “major and material misstatement of fact” in Jecrois’ arrest warrant that made it appear that a consensual sexual encounter between Jecrois and the other student was violent, according to the notice of claim obtained by The Jersey Journal.

Jecrois, a sophomore studying biology at the Jesuit university, told The Jersey Journal his life has been a “mess” since he was released from prison on Dec. 2. He said he can’t focus on his academics, he is bullied on social media by students who believe that he is a rapist and he has to stay 50 feet away from the woman who accused him of raping her.

“I have no social life anymore,” he said. “Everyone keeps their distance.”

That kind of bullying seems cruel, and certainly the fear of such behavior would probably produce a hostile educational environment, in which male students were disadvantaged because of their sex.