The Patriot Post® · Student Fights College's Guilty-Until-Innocent Approach
Kevin Parisi once attended Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. He wanted to work as a pharmacologist. But his life disintegrated when a woman at his school falsely accused him of rape. Parisi is now suing the university for assuming he was guilty and denying him due process during its investigation. The Washington Examiner reports, “He was kicked off campus and placed under investigation. Three months went by before he was found ‘not responsible’ in a campus disciplinary proceeding. Local police never filed charges against him. Being accused, however, was enough to cause his world to collapse. Now he is suing Drew for assuming he was guilty from the outset and treating him as such until it was determined he was innocent.” Parisi is just one of the many men assumed guilty in an unequal legal system often found on college campuses. Let’s hope this is a court case that makes the law equal and just for men and woman alike. More…