HAMMOND, Indiana — A male student finished serving drinks at Acacia Fraternity house about 1 a.m.
The student, referred to in court documents at Student B, was talking to a female student, called Nancy Roe. Roe had become extremely intoxicated that night, drinking the equivalent of 18 drinks’ worth of wine and beer, according to Purdue’s Title IX investigators. Student B served some of those drinks to Roe, then 19. About an hour later, Student B was walking Roe to her room in Harrison Residence Hall. He hid in the women’s bathroom while Roe asked her R.A. for a spare key to her room, then he followed Roe inside her room and into her bed.
Then he had sex with her.
While in bed, Student B created an audio recording of their conversation. He told investigators he did so because he knew she would later claim rape.
He later played that recording for his fraternity brothers.
Roe filed a sexual assault report to Purdue at the end of the week, claiming she was too drunk to consent to sex. Purdue’s Title IX office investigated and found Student B innocent of sexual assault but guilty of sexual exploitation for recording without her consent.
As punishment, he was made to write a 10-page paper on sexual exploitation and the importance of consent before sex.
For making what Purdue claims is a false statement about whether she was “incapacitated,” Roe was expelled.
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