CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) - The private Fontbonne University in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton is accused in a federal complaint of not doing enough to provide a safe environment in the case of a student who was sexually assaulted just days after reporting that her dorm room had been burglarized.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the women’s lock was changed after she reported that she had awoken two days in a row with her door unlocked. But no report was taken, said her attorney, Laura Dunn.
Then, just days later, on Feb. 25, the woman locked her room and started recording audio as she slept while her suitemate was gone for the night, Dunn said. The recording captured the sounds of two people moving around the room, Dunn said.
“I’m devastated,” the student said in the complaint. The Post-Dispatch and The Associated Press normally do not identify victims of sexual assault.
Dunn said the university had violated a federal act that requires campus officials to “evaluate if there is a serious or ongoing threat to the campus community.”
Fontbonne said in a statement that it is cooperating with a police investigation but declined to comment on the allegations. Two students are being investigated.
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