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Campus Department of Education Due Process Office for Civil Rights Press Release Title IX

Growing Numbers of Falsely Accused Persons Sue Colleges for High-Dollar Monetary Damages

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Robert Thompson: 301-801-0608

Email: info@saveservices.org

Growing Numbers of Falsely Accused Persons Sue Colleges for High-Dollar Monetary Damages

WASHINGTON / September 19, 2024 – In the past, accused students who sued their colleges only sought to have their transcripts cleared so they could transfer and not suffer adverse consequences. But inspired by Johnny Depp’s successful 2022 defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard (1), falsely accused persons are now suing their former schools for large dollar awards.

Following are five high-dollar lawsuits that were resolved or filed in just the past year:

Pacific University, OR: A jury awarded $3.9 million to Peter Steele, falsely accused of sexual assault. The jury agreed that “Pacific University’s conduct constituted an extraordinary transgression of the bounds of socially tolerable conduct or exceeded any reasonable limits of social toleration.” (2)

Thomas Jefferson University, PA: During a 2018 party, surgical resident Jessica Phillips forced whiskey into faculty member John Abraham’s mouth and began to aggressively kiss him. She pulled him to the floor, where they had sex. But inexplicably, the university failed to investigate his complaint of sexual assault. Last December, a jury decided in favor of Abraham, awarding him $15 million for the university’s “outrageous conduct.” (3)

University of Detroit-Mercy, MI: A college counselor at University of Detroit-Mercy initiated an unauthorized investigation against a student who had been falsely accused at another school. In April the student filed a lawsuit, charging “the University’s egregious lack of any semblance of fair process whatsoever in connection with same.” The lawsuit seeks actual, compensatory, and punitive damages (4).

Yale University, CT: The Associated Press recently reported on a defamation lawsuit that was filed in May against 15 women’s advocacy groups. Saif Khan, acquitted of sex assault charges during a trial in 2018, was called a “rapist” in a court brief that the groups filed in 2022. The lawsuit seeks financial damages. “We would like for them to understand that there is harm to someone when you just label them,” explained Khan’s attorney (5).

Hofstra University, NY: Two weeks ago, John Doe filed a lawsuit against Hofstra University, after the institution allegedly failed to address the harassment and retaliation he suffered after his former romantic partner defamed him for being a “rapist.” The lawsuit accuses the institution of “condoning and/or failing to adequately address severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive gender-based harassment and retaliation, which resulted in Plaintiff being compelled to withdraw from the University.” (6)

To date, over 800 lawsuits have been filed by students against colleges alleging Title IX and related violations (7). Thus far, 280 cases have been resolved in favor of the falsely accused student (8), with hundreds of other cases resolved via confidential settlements (9.10,11).

Many of these campus adjudications appear to have been driven by an aggrieved sense of “mob justice,” which bears little resemblance to democratic ideals of impartiality, fairness, and the presumption of innocence. College administrators should work to remove the perception of Kangaroo Court procedures, or face legislative consequences.

Links:

  1. https://people.com/amber-heard-pays-johnny-depp-usd1-million-settlement-1-year-after-trial-depp-to-donate-it-to-5-charities-7511495
  2. https://www.opb.org/article/2023/08/21/pacific-university-forest-grove-oregon-education-lawsuit-sexual-physical-assault/
  3. https://www.inquirer.com/health/thomas-jefferson-university-john-abraham-rothman-federal-jury-20231211.html
  4. https://titleixforall.com/lawsuit-university-counselor-betrayed-falsely-accused-student/
  5. https://apnews.com/article/yale-rape-lawsuit-899c2e3108c88581bed31a674c842306
  6. Case 2:24-cv-06146-SIL. Filed 09/03/24.
  7. https://titleixforall.com/accused-students-database/
  8. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CsFhy86oxh26SgTkTq9GV_BBrv5NAA5z9cv178Fjk3o/edit?gid=0#gid=0
  9. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CsFhy86oxh26SgTkTq9GV_BBrv5NAA5z9cv178Fjk3o/edit?gid=877378063#gid=877378063
  10. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CsFhy86oxh26SgTkTq9GV_BBrv5NAA5z9cv178Fjk3o/edit?gid=1506863034#gid=1506863034
  11. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CsFhy86oxh26SgTkTq9GV_BBrv5NAA5z9cv178Fjk3o/edit?gid=569972415#gid=569972415
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SAVE Citizen Watchdog Program Seeks to Oppose the ‘Gender Agenda’

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Robert D. Thompson: 1-301-801-0608 

 

SAVE Citizen Watchdog Program Seeks to Oppose the ‘Gender Agenda’ 

WASHINGTON / September 12, 2024 – Transgender activists have issued a Messaging Guide that presents a roadmap to redefine the meaning of sex and justify the participation of males in female sports. “Transgender Youth and the Freedom to Be Ourselves” labels upholders of family values as “villians” and urges readers to “exploit divisions across races.” The strongly worded document accuses persons who believe in a biological definition of “sex” of “stoking fear against Black and brown kids.” (1)  

Issued by ASO Communications, the Transgender Law Center, and Lake Research Partners, the transgender Messaging Guide reveals how the Marxist-inspired “Gender Agenda” represents an existential threat to children, families, and schools across the nation. (2) 

In response, SAVE recently established a new Citizen Watchdog Program. (3) In five short weeks, the Watchdog program has grown to now include 30 state organizations that are monitoring their local school(s) to help fight the Gender Agenda. (4) 

To date, hundreds of “Sex and Gender” incidents have been reported across all 50 states, according to the non-profit group Parents Defending Education. (5)  These incidents include teaching gender ideology in the classroom, pronoun mandates, and transgender counseling of children without informing the parents.  

These are a few examples of such incidents:

  • Arizona: Scottsdale Unified School District has gender support plan that appears to keep parents in the dark regarding their children’s gender identity. (6)  
  • Minnesota: Rochester Public Schools has a secret policy that states staff can keep the gender identity of students hidden from parents, and forces staff to use transgender pronouns of students under threat of “termination.” (7)
  • Texas: Round Rock Independent School District provided training that told teachers to keep the gender identity of students a secret from their parents. (8)  
  • Washington: Seattle Public Schools’ School-Based Health Center provider offers students ‘gender-affirming care services’ that include “hormonal treatment.” (9) 
The following Watchdog Program members have already begun to fight the battle in schools in their own areas:
  • Protect Ohio Children Coalition in Ohio, (10) is launching a watchdog program to monitor curriculum in schools. Protect Ohio Children has been receiving hundreds of anonymous tips that are added to its indoctrination heatmap. (11) 
  • Parents on the Level in Georgia is monitoring local schools and providing parents with information on how to fight the gender agenda in public schools. (12) 

SAVE invites lawmakers and voters to join with other Citizen Watchdogs around the country. Vigilance is important because the Gender Agenda has become embedded into the consciousness of thousands of school counselors, teachers, administrators, and others.

Interested persons should send a message to rdt123@verizon.net.  Please indicate your city and state, and your area of concern, such as women’s sports, due process, parental rights, etc. Watchdogs will be invited to participate in the bi-monthly calls of the Title IX Network.
SAVE (Stop Abusive and Violent Environments) is a non-profit organization working for fairness in schools and the protection of family values. The Title IX Network consists of 233 organizational members who are working to stop the new Title IX regulation.
Links:
3.    https://www.saveservices.org/2024/08/save-invites-persons-to-become-local-watchdogs-to-assure-title-ix-compliance/

6.    https://defendinged.org/incidents/scottsdale-unified-school-district-has-gender-support-plan-that-appears-to-be-copied-from-gender-spectrums-template-appears-to-keep-some-parents-in-the-dark-regarding-their-childrens-gender-ident/

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False Allegations

Falsely Accused Day 2024: Report from the Tower of London

Falsely Accused Day 2024: Report from the Tower of London

Sean Parker

September 11, 2024

With campaigners for Lucy Letby’s innocence all over the news, Falsely Accused Day 2024 took place outside the Tower of London in central London. The Brian Buckle Massive, including the recent exoneree himself, were out in force, with excellent attitudes and picture t-shirts galore.

FASO (Falsely Accused Support Organisation) CEO Margaret Gardener opened proceedings with a brief history of the movement, going back to the organisation’s founding in the early 2000s, and her husband’s own false allegation.

Brian Hudson, tireless secretary of FACT (Falsely Accused Carers & Teachers) was up next. Hudson not the first to call out the fact that the new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, was the very man who introduced the ‘believe the victim’ policy to the Crown Prosecution Service in the early 2010s, leading to the epidemic of false allegations we see today.

Brian Buckle gave a beautifully moving talk about his journey from false allegations dating from 1992, the pain of trial and imprisonment, and long struggle for exoneration following. Brian and his family recently heard he wasn’t entitled to compensation as he couldn’t ‘prove he was innocent,’ so the already momentous achievement of being exonerated by the Appeal Court is still apparently not enough in trying to recoup some of the £500,000 spent on legal fees.

Dr Kevin Felstead, formerly of the British False Memory Society (BFMS), spoke about his organisation’s work over the years, and how false memories are still being weaponised when therapists think they could get away with it.

There was a rare public appearance by former policeman William Merritt, author of a brilliantly thorough book about the allegations against world-famous artist and presenter Rolf Harris. Merritt spoke eloquently about everything he had discovered in the writing of that book, and how an allegations can snowball with the collusion of an incentivized media.

This author had a word about the work of Empowering the Innocent, FASO, and the recognition of the ‘courtcraft’ used in the Lucy Letby reports in many accounts of wrongful convictions. Pop producer and songwriter Jonathan King delivered his conviction that Keir Starmer would at some point soon have false accusers coming for him, and find himself (metaphorically) in the ancient Tower opposite the demonstration.

Representatives from Spoken Injustice, the Falsely Accused Network, and individual campaigners were also present, and co-demonstrations in Liverpool and around the world were far from forgotten. Let alone the cases from previous decades — in just the 2020s, the cases of Johnny Depp, the Postmasters, Julian Assange, Andy Malkinson, and Lucy Letby have elevated the chronic problems of the justice system into public consciousness.

The attendees of IFAD 2024 knew these were ‘not the only ones’, to say the least. The movement continues to grow, because the truth will always out.

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False Allegations

International Falsely Accused Day: Report from England

INTERNATIONAL FALSLEY ACCUSED DAY: REPORT FROM ENGLAND

By Lyn Crabtree

September 11, 2024

As founder of Falsely Accused Day — now International — I’m proud to report we had a rather successful day here in England on September 9.

Where I was in Liverpool outside His Majesty’s Prison, our numbers this year were somewhat smaller, naturally people find weekdays to attend more difficult due to work commitments. However, the fantastic support from passing vehicles was at some points overwhelming, as we tried to speak huge blasts of horns were battled with. The message however was still heard loud and clear.

Passing prison officers even took some interest in our displays once again we had our faceless victim masks with us. These always bring tears to my eyes seeing the sea of masks of those who were not heard in UK courts and have lost their lives to false allegations.

Amongst our display we had our Snowdrops. We are of course continuing our Snowdrop Campaign, and yes, we will eventually complete our mammoth task of getting out the message to all those who contribute to False allegations like the police, courts etc…

We had no official speakers in Liverpool, just Jo Wheeler and myself. This gave us more time to engage with those who were either falsely accused themselves or supporting someone who is. It was daunting to hear some of their stories. So much of each case having many similarities, one wonders how these stories can even be believed by the police to start with. ‘Believe the victim’ being a huge part and no evidence but the words of a liar!

We were pleased to welcome supporters for Lucy Letby. I’m sure this horrendous story will have been prominent in the media for you all. Lucy aged 34 who was a neonatal nurse was accused of killing seven babies and damaging a further seven.

Many are supporting Lucy to have a fair trial. I hope she does have that opportunity, because after seeing the way our trial went and listening to others about their experiences, it seems that getting a fair trial is what those falsely accused suffer the most.

I was able to read the following poem that I had sent out to prisoners in the UK who are wrongly convicted….

International Falsely Accused Day

We’re into our 4th Year,

So we really want to say,

Let’s gather to make this incredible,

For our 4th International Falsely Accused Day,

The fight will go on forever,

Until changes are made in the law,

‘Believe the victim’ mantra,

Is that HUGE major flaw,

As you sit and read my words,

Remember we fight for the Falsely Accused every day,

By letter, email, and social media,

You’re in our thoughts and hearts – One day ‘THEY’ will pay!

I was appalled to hear that some prisoners were denied having the support letter and poem. I was sad that they would think they were forgotten this year.

I also told a real story of a man who having being bullied all his life ended up being falsely accused as being a danger to children. He was not convicted as no one actually made an official complaint to authorities, and he to this day has been so badly affected by these terrible rumours that he can not leave the house. How awful that some people are affected so much by False Accusations that it literally wrecks their lives.

Partway through our demonstration, we had a very welcome visit from LBC radio. The spoke to Jo Wheeler and I. Jo certainly had lots to say  as she was being interviewed. The reporter chatted to a few others and proceeded to take film footage of us and our displays. I am not sure of when this maybe aired but we felt positive that we will be heard by many as the false allegation message reaches far and wide, because we all know, False Allegations are Not rare!

London Observance

In contrast to Liverpool, London had the following speakers:

  • Margaret Gardner, who heads the support group, Falsely Accused Support Organization (FASO)
  • Brian Hudson, from FACT
  • Dr. Kevin Felstead, author of Memory and Injustice
  • William Merrit, author and investigator for the book about Rolf Harris’s innocence
  • Jonathan King, Ex-TV personality and DJ
  • Sean B W Parker, on behalf of Dr. Michael Naughton
  • Brian Buckle, who was falsely accused of rape, after a very expensive appeal and 5 years behind bars is finally free.

A successful day was had by all and the speakers were well received. Buckle’s speech brought tears to the eyes of some onlookers as his family who fought tirelessly for his innocence stood by him.

Conclusion

To close, I’d like to express my delight at seeing so much activity on social media about events for IFAD from the USA, Argentina, Spain, India, and of course the UK.

So now we move on to our next step which is Men’s Equality Month.