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2 May 2016

You're a sinner': how a Mormon university shames rape victims

Rape survivors at Brigham Young University, considered the ‘Mormon Harvard’, face penalties under its strict honor code. Now they’re fighting back. Madi Barney sat sobbing in the Provo, Utah, police department. It had been four days since the Brigham Young University sophomore had been raped in her off-campus apartment.
She was scared – terrified – that the officials at her strict, Mormon university would find out and punish her.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/30/mormon-rape-victims-shame-brigham-young-university?CMP=share_btn_fb#_=_