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Mara Louk, a former student of a Memphis Christian college accused the college of banning her from campus for allegedly having premarital sex with her ex-boyfriend after she reported that a fellow classmate raped her.
Mara filed a federal complaint with the US Department of Education last week against Visible Music College, claiming that the school did nothing after she reported that a classmate had choked and raped her in November 2021.
Who is Mara Louk, and where did she come from?
The complaint stated that on November 2, 2021, a male classmate came over to Louk’s apartment to play board games. He then sexually assaulted her. She narrated her ordeal to a school administrator the next day. “I didn’t expect them to actually expel him, but I did trust them enough to get a plan in motion to keep him away from me and other students,” Louk told NBC News.
She filed a sexual assault report with Memphis police the following day, but a week later, she was told there was not enough evidence to make an arrest. On November 15, school administrators informed her that the boy would be allowed to continue to attend classes since police did not charge him.
Louk claimed that the administrators also accused her of breaking school rules against premarital sex with another student, even though she maintained that she did not. The accused classmate allegedly told school officials that she had sex with her ex-boyfriend that semester, claiming that the ex confirmed the same.
Because the accused boy had not been charged by the cops, school administrators informed her on November 15th that he would be allowed to continue attending classes. Louk claimed that the administration department also accused her of breaking school rules prohibiting premarital physical relationships with another student, despite her claims to the contrary.
“The ‘Crime on Campus’ reporting program is operated in accordance with the requirements of the ‘College and University Security Information Act,’ (T.C.A. 49-7-2201, et. seq.) enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, effective July 1, 1989,” according to the school’s Campus Safety section of the website.
The Act requires each institution of higher education to report data related to crimes on campus and in student housing to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, which will “prescribe the reporting form and format for the collection of such data and issue an annual report of the results of such data submissions from each institution.”
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