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Faith-Based Liberty University Allegedly Threatened To Punish Female Students For Reporting Rapes

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Dozens of women who attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, are coming forward with accusations that the faith-based school’s administrators did not take rape accusations seriously in recent years.

A damning new report published on Monday by journalist Hannah Dreyfus in ProPublica alleges that the Christian school’s administrators and staff made it “difficult or impossible” for students to report instances of sexual violence to the police.

This follows a July lawsuit in which 12 women similarly accused the school, founded by controversial Christian leader Jerry Falwell, Sr., of dissuading purported sexual assault victims from coming forward to report the alleged crimes against them. Related: Woman Raped On Philadelphia Commuter

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