Case dismissed: UVA sexual assault survivor warns parents of young women and girls, "know what you're getting into."

UVA alumna says she was "brutally punished" for seeking justice.

As the Daily Progress reports, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a UVA alumna claiming the University slow-walked a Title IX investigation to protect a former professor and department head who was found to have sexually harassed and assaulted her repeatedly and eventually stripped of his emeritus status and barred from ever working at UVA again. The first assault took place in January 2019 during a study abroad program and a ruling wasn't made until July 2021. Investigations like this are supposed to be conducted in 60 days. While the federal judge agreed that the investigation was delayed and that it "lacked efficiency," he found that it did not amount to the "deliberate indifference" needed for the case to proceed.

Remarkably, while the accused professor was being desposed he admitted to having had a previous sexual relationship with a student in 2010, but under questioning by the Alumna's attorney, he could not recall her name.