WE SHOULD SEE MORE LAWSUITS LIKE THIS. FALSE ACCUSERS SHOULD BE NAMED AND PUNISHED. Ashe Schow: Brown University student sues his accuser for defamation.
At some point during the party, the two began a lengthy conversation, and as the party ended, they began kissing. “The couple continued their intimate conversation and public displays of affection among a group of mutual friends in another dormitory room down the hall,” John’s complaint says. At some point Jane texted her friends that she might be about to “hook up” with John.
The two decided to go back to John’s dorm, and once there, continued kissing and touching each other on John’s bed. John says Jane was an active, willing participant who “passionately” kissed John’s neck, leaving a hickey. John’s lawsuit claims Jane “expressed her consent and pleasure” with the sexual activity and at no time did she “express in actions or words that she was uncomfortable or withdrawing her consent.”
Jane said she did not want to have sex that night, and John said okay, but the two continued kissing. John escalated the sexual touching and asked Jane: “Do you like this?” The lawsuit says Jane nodded her head and said “yes.”
John then says that Jane guided his hand and told her what she wanted him to do. Jane then stood up and said again that she didn’t want to have sex, that she had to go meet a friend she had previously agreed to meet, but that she would see John again at her birthday party the next day.
John says Jane kissed him goodbye and left his room.
“In the week that followed, John Doe was unaware that Jane Doe considered herself the victim of sexual assault,” the lawsuit says.
John’s lawsuit suggests that Jane made the accusation against him after he didn’t talk to her at her birthday party the next day.
John is suing his accuser for defamation based on statements she made to other students at Brown that were false. The people she made the claims to would later testify on her behalf. Some of the false statements included her claim that she was “covered in bruises” despite claiming in future statements that she was only attacked on her lip and neck (which had no bruises according to Facebook photos and a medical report).
Like I said. . . .