Alleged Serial Rapist at Oxy Reportedly Returning to Campus in December

When Occidental College student Carly Mee reported to the dean of students on campus that she did not feel safe after being raped by a fellow student after her first week of classes as a freshman in 2009, the administrator assured her that she had “nothing to worry about—that she had met with my rapist, and that he didn’t seem like the type of person who would something like that,” Mee told a nationally televised news conference in Los Angeles this past April. (See attached video.)

What Mee did not realize at the time was that the student who allegedly brutalized her was a serial college rapist, according to a federal complaint filed against Occidental College, and that she was on a campus awash in what the Oxy Sexual Assault Coalition, an activist and advocacy group, calls a "sexual assault epidemic."

After a three-month investigation, college administrators determined that the man Mee finally complained about while in her senior year was responsible for raping her. After years of feeling depressed and being allegedly leered at by her rapist, Mee graduated from Oxy last month. Her tormentor was expelled, but he will reportedly be allowed to return in December to resume his studies.

“I can’t come back and visit the college I went to and visit my friends,” Mee was quoted as saying in a story about sexual assaults across some of the nation’s major campuses published Wednesday by Bloomberg News. “And if he comes back, there are other people at risk of being assaulted.”

Titled “College Serial Rapists Evade Antiquated Campus Responses,” the Bloomberg story examines how the federal complaint against Oxy reveals a larger national problem caused by a relatively small minority of men.

Click here to read the Bloomberg story.

Related:

• Click here to read a Q&A with an Occidental College professor about Oxy's sexual assaults scandal.
• Click here to read Oxy President Jonathan Veitch’s May 1 announcement of new steps taken by the college to combat sexual assaults on campus.
• Click here to read about the Oxy faculty’s vote of no confidence in the college counsel and students’ dean.