Sunday, July 11, 2010

Sex with student....Should adult student have right to sue University when professor takes sexual advantage?

Does an adult student have the right to sue when Professor gains knowledge of a students private life and seduces the student? Serious answers please !

Sex with student....Should adult student have right to sue University when professor takes sexual advantage?
Yes that is an invasion of your privacy which is not common knowledge. But what will usually happen is you will be viewed as a troublemaker by the dean if you go to them to complain. The dean will contact the professor and have a chat with them to which they will deny it ever happened. Then at some point they (dean and professor) will come to some sort of agreement or the professor will simply ask for a transfer to another school or location. To which will more than likely be granted, and passing them off on to someone else to deal with.





Instead - File a complaint with the police department and the DA's office first. Then the dean. Let them do the investigation, and if they find that the situation (inappropriate behavior) did occur they can and will prosecute as long as you're willing to testify in court against the professor. If found guilty you can take that info (judgment against them) and file a civil law suit against the professor as well. If you win he will have to pay you additional cost of damages.





If you have informed the dean and no action taken or it was dismissed - with the conviction of the professor in court (going through police complaint and DA) you can also include the dean and schools name at fault along with the professor in your civil law suit. To which you would collect even more money for damages caused to you.
Reply:NO man. I don't think so. If you have a 2 adult situation...consenting adults...what would they sue for.





Payday?





Yeah. No case.
Reply:As long as it is not "Rape" No!! For the other part yes because it is a form of Stalking
Reply:seduces, no. that's a choice an adult student has made.





coerced, yes. that's rape!
Reply:Sexual conduct between adults in a professor/student relationship should be handled using the same legal standards as sexual harrassment in the workplace.





If conduct does not meet the legal standards of harassment, then a suit is not justified. Simply being seduced is not grounds for suit.
Reply:I'll be serious. I don't believe this for a minute, and neither would a jury. I have a feeling this professor was given the information by the accuser, and somehow seduce does not make sense. If the person was seduced, he/she was partially willing. Sounds like a case of wished I hadn't done it, as maybe they were hoping a good grade would come out of the little get together, and it didn't happen. Now someone is p1ssed.
Reply:I would think so. In appropriate contact with a student should be in violation of sexual harrassment laws. The college or University probably has it's own policy as well.





The student should seek due process.





Hope you aren't the professor...if you are you should have stayed out of this mess, and just gone home, or to the bathroom.





Hope this helps.
Reply:ummm, if the student was over 18 then they made their own choices.
Reply:no, the student is an adult and should be making decisions like one. if they got "dupped" into a relationship then it is on them...no matter what their history is
Reply:YES, it would be wrong if the student couldnt.
Reply:Absolutely! Regardless of age, that is stalking.





Good luck!
Reply:yes! if he took advantage of that yes, he has every right to, no matter if the student is an adult or not, the professer is taking ADVANTAGE of the student, a younger student if not
Reply:Gone are the days when co-eds were sweet naive' things that 'grown up' type professors could take advantage of.. most females nowadays would deck him and change courses.


The only ones' that might take advantage is the female student to get a better grade!


PS. its called blackmail, not stalking,when someone has knowledge of you and you don't 'want anyone to know and coerced to pay the other in some form.
Reply:They have the right to sue...but what does "knowledge of a students private life" really mean?





A student is an adult, surely, and the university isn't in locus parentis.





Someone's trying to make an easy buck.
Reply:If it was mutual then no, not if the student is an adult....
Reply:Thats there choice! If they wont to. But they need to have a good lawyer!


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