| Former
Student Sues
Fordham Under
NYS Adult
Survivors Act
Citing 2011
Rape In Dorm
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 7 –
Francis
Austin, saying
he was raped
in 2011 by his
Fordham
University
roommate
Patrick
Sweeney, has
sued
Fordham.
The
complaint,
found in the
dockets of the
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York by
Inner City
Press which
covers the
SDNY, says
that Fordham
"was on
notice,
including
written
notice, of the
dangers that
Sweeney posed
to
Austin."
Both lived in
B-10 of Finlay
Hall on Rose
Hill in The
Bronx.
The
complaint
refers to
Auschwitz.
Austin
required
surgery.
A
second sexual
assault, the
Complaint
says, happened
in Keating
Hall.
The complaint
is filed under
NY CPLR 214-j,
NYS's Adult
Survivors
Act.
The
case is Austin
v. Fordham
University,
23-cv- 4696
(Crotty)
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