Post by Logan on Mar 17, 2016 4:47:16 GMT -6
After alleged sexual assault, athlete’s parents sue University of Kansas over dorm safety
Amanda Tackett says she and her husband were assured by University of Kansas athletic recruiters that their freshman daughter, a rower, would be safe in the school’s dormitories.
“Everything was safe and A-OK,” Tackett says the recruiters told them.
Then her daughter, Daisy Tackett, allegedly was sexually assaulted by a football player at the Jayhawker Towers dormitory.
KU’s assurance and what the Tacketts see as a broken promise are at the heart of a novel lawsuit the parents filed against the university last week, as their daughter recovers at their Florida home.
The suit essentially accuses the university of false advertising and violating the Kansas Consumer Protection Act. Experts say that if successful, the suit could give students another way to prod universities to do more to stop sexual violence on campus.
Read more here: www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article66522802.html
Amanda Tackett says she and her husband were assured by University of Kansas athletic recruiters that their freshman daughter, a rower, would be safe in the school’s dormitories.
“Everything was safe and A-OK,” Tackett says the recruiters told them.
Then her daughter, Daisy Tackett, allegedly was sexually assaulted by a football player at the Jayhawker Towers dormitory.
KU’s assurance and what the Tacketts see as a broken promise are at the heart of a novel lawsuit the parents filed against the university last week, as their daughter recovers at their Florida home.
The suit essentially accuses the university of false advertising and violating the Kansas Consumer Protection Act. Experts say that if successful, the suit could give students another way to prod universities to do more to stop sexual violence on campus.
Read more here: www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article66522802.html