The UC Santa Barbara Police Department received a report on Sunday of a rape that occurred at the Sigma Pi fraternity house on Oct. 26, according to a timely warning sent out to all students Monday night.
The reported rape occurred on Saturday evening inside a bedroom at the fraternity house, which is located at 760 Embarcadero Del Mar, according to the timely warning.
This is the third sexual assault allegation naming Sigma Pi in the past month; last week, the Nexus reported that Sigma Pi removed one of its fraternity members following two separate sexual assault allegations involving two different women. The previous two allegations were not reported to the police or the university, according to one of the women who spoke to the Nexus.
According to the timely warning, the complainant, who submitted the report anonymously, does not know the suspect. The suspect is described in the alert as a 22-year-old, 5’10” white male with “medium-length brown hair and brown eyes” who was wearing a white shirt and blue shorts.
The timely warning does not specify if the suspect is a member of the Sigma Pi fraternity.
UCSB sent out an alert two weeks ago about a separate fraternity incident, in which two uses of date-rape drugs at a fraternity event on Oct. 5 were reported. The fraternity involved in the Oct. 5 report was not named, sparking social media backlash from students.
Anyone with information regarding the Oct. 26 incident can contact the UC Police Department at (805) 893-3446 or submit an anonymous report here.
Campus Advocacy, Resources & Education (C.A.R.E.) can be reached through a 24-hour advocacy line at (805) 893-4613 and Counseling & Psychological Services (C.A.P.S.) has a 24-hour confidential crisis counseling line at (805) 893-4411. Campus and community resources for individuals impacted by sexual violence, sexual harassment or other prohibited behavior can be accessed here.
And another one.
Sigma Pi is criminally complicit. UCSB needs to make an example out of them.
If 1 in 5 girls are sexually assaulted at UCSB (per the information forced onto students by UCSB faculty), why is this news? Is it because Sig Pi was a top house? Or, is it because sexual assault is a genuine tragedy that doesn’t happen to the frequency that we are told by propaganda? The 1 in 5 study is an advocacy study, not valid science. If you have taken even a single statistics class I encourage you to look into it. Someone paid the “researchers” to get the most shocking result possible, and they manipulated variables until they did.… Read more »
We are to take the victims of this seriously because it IS serious regardless if there is a study predicting occurrences or not. We need to make a big fucking deal about it because it is one.
Okay, but the point I’m making is that getting sexually assaulted isn’t a “normal” thing we go through as part of college! It’s serious and tragic and thankfully doesn’t happen as much as UC tells us, but if we delude ourselves into believing that 1/5 women are assaulted at UCSB as part and parcel of their college experience, it becomes much harder to treat individual events like these recent occurences with the gravity they deserve.
We can’t make a big deal about 2000 different incidents.
Police officers say the majority of reports are actually false. This comes from sex crime investigators. I’m glad the victim reported it to law enforcement. A calm and competent inquiry will be done and, if the evidence supports it, charges will be filed. Save the hysteria for later.
You need to look up your facts.
Reported sexual assaults are true, with very few exceptions. FBI crime statistics indicate that only 2% of reported rapes are false. This is the same rate of false reporting as other major crime reports.
That’s an incredibly deflated statistic, that’s the percentage of people who have suit taken up against them because of their false accusations and have it proven false beyond a reasonable doubt, something that’s generally not worth people’s time. The actual numbers are FAR greater. Here’s the facts: According to a 1996 Department of Justice report, “in about 25% of the sexual assault cases referred to the FBI, … the primary suspect has been excluded by forensic DNA testing. It should be noted that rape involves a forcible and non-consensual act, and a DNA match alone does not prove that rape… Read more »