Article from The Daily Wire by Ashe Schow.

A male student accused of sexually assaulting a drunk female student was found not guilty in a court of law, but that didn’t stop his university from expelling him over the same accusation. The move was expected, as colleges and universities use a lower standard of proof for determining whether a sexual assault occurred — a standard that routinely ends with poorly trained administrators taking an accuser’s word over evidence.

Saifullah Khan, an immigrant who grew up in an Afghanistan refugee camp, won a full scholarship to Yale University. He would later be accused of sexually assaulting a female classmate in 2015 — an accusation that, in a rarity for campus accusations, actually resulted in a criminal trial. During that criminal trial, Khan was found not guilty, based on video evidence that showed him and his accuser walking arm-in-arm and smiling, as well as key-card evidence that supported his story that the woman invited him back to her dorm after he left, and then asked him to check on her friend who was actually too drunk.

Activists, working on emotion and not evidence, concluded that the system failed (because women, we’re told, never lie about sexual assault), and demanded Yale expel Khan anyway, ignoring the evidence in his favor.

Despite being found not guilty in a court of law, Khan still had to go through a campus tribunal, where he was not granted full due process rights (Yale is a private university and has more leeway in denying constitutional rights to students). In early October 2018, Khan was accused of sexual assault by a non-student who had previously acted as public relations consultant* for the Yale student (this young male accuser was previously the victim of a false accusation). Yale immediately suspended Khan after this new accusation. His attorney, Norm Pattis, posted on his blog that Washington, D.C. police — who investigated the accusation because that’s where the alleged assault occurred — closed the case without charging Khan. Yale, according to Pattis, “did not intend to call his accuser in Washington, D.C., concluding the young man lacked credibility.”

Read the entire article at The Daily Wire.

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