Notre Dame silent on teen's death

[skepticscott]

A 19-year-old Northbrook woman died of an apparent suicide nine days after telling University of Notre Dame police that she had been sexually attacked by a football player in a dorm room, the Tribune has learned.

Elizabeth "Lizzy" Seeberg, a freshman at neighboring St. Mary's College who had battled depression, apparently overdosed on prescription medication in her own room during the third week of classes in September. The player, meanwhile, has remained on the field.

More than two months later, Notre Dame refuses to publicly acknowledge the case, and what actions university officials have taken to investigate her allegation remain largely unknown.

Campus authorities did not tell the St. Joseph County Police Department investigating Seeberg's death about her report of a sexual attack, county officials said. Nor did they refer the case to the county's special victims unit, which was established to handle sex offenses, according to prosecutors.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-notre-dame-story-20101121,0,3185959.story

Any surprise that a Catholic institution has trouble being forthcoming about sexual assault allegations against one of its representatives? Apparently a lot of campus outrage can be generated by an open speech from a president who does not toe the line of RCC doctrine, but this generates nary a twitter.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. One of their alumni is in the area and believe me, if he is any reflection

of what that school produces, the whole college should be dismantled.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

2. typical at colleges--football players are more important than female students

common for universities to downplay sexual attacks on women and protect the male perps.

Cruelty to animals generates more outrage than attacks on women and the systems that sweep misogyny under the rug.

read "Our Guys", about the judicial system's rape of a young mentally disabled woman after she'd been gang raped by a bunch of the town's H.S. football heroes.

[DeSwiss]

3. K&R

"The only church that illuminates is a burning church" ~ Buenaventura Durruti

[pokerfan]

4. one fewer plaintiff (nt)