Yale Student, who Was Cleared of Rape Charge but Expelled Anyway, Suing Yale for $110 Million

A Yale student was charged with sexual assault, a charge so flimsy a jury found him not guilty.  That’s bad enough.  

Then, the university expelled him anyway.

Now, this student is suing Yale in a federal lawsuit to the tune of $110 million.

Christian Schneider over at The College Fix has the incredible and infuriating details:

Saifullah Khan, 26, was expelled by Yale following an allegation that he had assaulted a female student on Halloween 2015. Yet in March 2018, Khan was found not guilty by a Connecticut court on four counts of raping the student. Nonetheless, after conducting its own campus trial, the university permanently banned Khan from campus in January 2019.

Khan’s lawsuit seeks compensatory damages “for his lost opportunities,” and punitive damages “necessary to deter the defendants from misconduct in the future.” The suit does not distinguish the amount sought for each.

“The manner in which I was recruited and then cast aside was deeply confusing and painful,” said Khan, who was born in an Afghanistan refugee camp and offered a full ride to Yale, in an e-mail to The College Fix. “I trusted Yale to do the right thing but [they] did not.”

In other words, an actual jury said he was not guilty, but Yale’s kangaroo court said he was.  Want to know just how bad these college-run trials are?

The university convened a panel to determine Khan’s fate in November 2018, following his second suspension from the university. (He had been accused of sexual assault against a non-Yale male during a threesome in Washington, D.C., in summer 2018.)

During the hearing, Khan’s Yale accuser was able to teleconference in by Skype, and Khan’s attorney was not able to ask her any questions or cross-examine her in any way – a process that had led to Khan’s exoneration in the criminal trial.

Khan was not allowed in the room while the Yale panel asked his accuser questions. Instead he was relegated to an anteroom where he could listen to an audio feed of the proceedings.

When Khan was questioned by the Yale panel, he was not allowed any assistance by a lawyer, according to the lawsuit. While he was allowed to have a counselor present, the counselor “could neither pose questions to witnesses,” “tender objections when panel members repeatedly asked compound questions,” or object when panel members “assumed facts not in evidence.”

Further, the proceedings were not recorded, as Khan requested.

I’ll believe liberals are serious about rape and assault when they stop talking incessantly about the topics and start treating them seriously.

This is a ridiculous way to handle this very important accusation, and I hope Yale has to pay every dime to this wrongly accused man. 

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Hat Tip: The College Fix