Colleges Are Engaging In MASSIVE Sexual Assault Cover Ups

Colleges have found themselves embroiled in numerous sexual assault coverups in the last few years and we've barely scratched the surface on how deep this problem really goes. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this issue.

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Colleges have found themselves embroiled in numerous sexual assault coverups in the last few years and we've barely scratched the surface on how deep this problem really goes. I'll tell you what I'm seeing right now, Farron. I'm seeing that colleges ... I've actually been involved in a couple of these cases where I've been asked to consult and asked, what is our next step in a case where there has been a sexual assault at a college?

And so here's what I've run into. It is where the college sets up this kind of phonied up on ombudsman group. Okay? In other words, the child has been assaulted. The first thing that happens is you have to go to the ombudsman here on campus and you have to tell us your story there. Okay? Now you would think that that would be a group that would try to encourage, first of all, you need to file charges immediately. You need to do something criminally.

You would hope that they would do that, but the truth is what ends up happening is that ombudsman group does just the opposite. They keep everything in house. They say, let's keep this quiet. Let's not talk about all the bad things that this person has done. Let's not call the shots. Let's not put any sunlight on this. The reason they do it is they want to keep the number of these reports down. Okay?

They don't want ... They're protecting themselves. They're not really protecting that student that goes to this committee, tells the story, and the committee is there for one reason, and that's to make sure this doesn't get out. I've seen it with Yale. Last time I ran into it was at Yale University and they have this really tight little schematic that the person goes there, tells the story in the story, and the story dies.

Well, you know, as prevalent as these sexual assault crimes are right now, and especially with the Me Too movement with women coming forward and showing how rampant it really is, colleges, one of the worst places where this happens just because it's institutionalized, but they have it in their own personal agenda to keep these numbers down. Because when you're researching where you want to go, you want to go to the place that's had 20 rapes or the place with zero rapes? Well that zero number may not actually be accurate because as you point out, they're trying to cover it up and they deem it through their own in house people.