SOUTH CAROLINA
The College Fix
by LAUREN COOLEY – FURMAN UNIVERSITY on JULY 1, 2014
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South Carolina’s Bob Jones University, nicknamed the “Fortress of Fundamentalism,” has been accused of grossly mishandling dozens of reported rapes and other cases of sexual assault over two decades – and cutting short an investigation that BJU itself commissioned.
Students who suffered sexual abuse have accused the Christian university of telling them not to report the abuse because it “would damage Jesus Christ,” according to The New York Times.
In a recent report by Al Jazeera’s America Tonight newsmagazine, one student even said she was asked “whether she would really want to prevent a ‘Godly man’ from getting an education that would allow him to ‘serve the Lord.’”
America Tonight interviewed five former BJU students who attended the school from the early 1990s to the 2010s. They alleged gross misguidance by BJU counselors when they sought help and healing for sexual abuse.
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