SOUTH CAROLINA
Huffington Post
by Meredith Bennett-Smith
Fundamentalist Christian bastion Bob Jones University has sparked controversy after summarily dismissing a consultant group investigating the way the school handled sexual assault accusations.
In 2012, the Greenville, S.C., school hired Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment (GRACE) to investigate how the university responded to reports of sexual assault, the New York Times reports. The group’s findings were set to be released in March.
For years there have been allegations that Bob Jones University had been stifling the reporting of sexual assaults, and the school’s decision to dismiss GRACE late last month — mere weeks before its report would be made public — has therefore been criticized by former students and others affiliated with the school.
“As always, they’re worried about protecting the church and the university, not the victims,” Camille Lewis, a former Bob Jones student and faculty member, told the New York Times.
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