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The Roys Report

Rape Victim at Cedarville Asks: “Where was my protection?”

The Roys Report

Julie Roys

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.6714 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Transcript “You told us you would protect us like your own daughter. Where was my protection when your vice president and dean of women attacked me for being the victim?” So asks a rape victim at Cedarville University of university president, Dr. Thomas White, in this episode of The Roys Report. The student says the school failed to protect her when she filed a Title IX complaint for sexual harassment, so when she was raped, she didn’t feel safe to report it.  

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Over the past month, Cedarville University has come under fire for hiring a known sexual predator.

0:09.0

The board has placed Cedarville President Thomas White on administrative leave and is conducting a third-party investigation.

0:15.0

But is the problem at Cedarville bigger than the president's office?

0:19.0

And is there a culture at the school that fails to

0:21.2

protect victims of sexual harassment and abuse? Welcome to the Roy's report, a podcast dedicated to

0:27.4

reporting the truth and restoring the church. I'm Julie Roy's. And today I'm going to be speaking with a

0:32.5

former Cedarville student who says she was a victim of sexual harassment and rape. But when she reported her abuse

0:39.0

to school officials, she says she was re-victimized by the school. I'm going to get to that

0:44.2

interview in just a moment, but I do want to thank our sponsors, Mark Ward of Barrington and Judson

0:49.2

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0:55.0

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1:02.3

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1:08.6

For more information, just go to judsonu.edu. Again, that's judsonu.

1:13.8

org.edu. Well, returning to our topic today, again, joining me is a former Cedarville University

1:20.1

student who is a victim of sexual harassment and rape. And she says Cedarville, under President

1:26.0

Thomas White, has a toxic culture that fails to

1:29.2

protect victims of abuse. In fact, in a letter to Dr. Thomas White that she sent, after withdrawing

1:35.0

from Cedarville earlier this year, she writes, and I quote, I went to Cedarville and you,

1:40.5

Dr. White, told us you would protect us like your own daughter.

1:49.1

Where was my protection when your vice president and dean of women attacked me for being the victim?

1:54.7

Where was your protection when after I was held down and my pleas to stop weren't listened to that I couldn't report it because of how your staff treated me?

1:58.5

I pray you never experienced what my parents did. The midnight phone calls

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