♪ ♪
>> Mark: Tonight, on the
"Fifth Estate".
>> And after pulling my hair a
couple times, he actually put me
in a head lock.
>> Mark: The University of
British Columbia, where several
women are sounding the alarm.
They say there is a predator on
campus
>> I was naked and wrapped in a
sheet.
I started crying because of what
I thought had happened.
>> Mark: What did you think had
happened?
>> That he raped me.
>> Mark: And when the women
asked the University to protect
them, they were told to keep
their stories to themselves.
>> We can't have you guys tell
anybody or talk about this, not
even intimate that there is a
problem.
>> To tell people what had
happened or to tell people there
was a predator in the department
was like telling them that there
is a snake in the room and then
turning off all the lights.
>> Mark: All across the country,
survivors of sexual assault say
if they turn to the police and
the courts, they feel like they
are the ones on trial.
>> You went home with him?
>> I didn't know I was in an
unsafe situation.
>> Right.
Because you weren't, were you?
>> I was.
>> I'm am going to suggest to
you that that encounter was at
your instigation and that it was
entirely consensual.
[♪♪]
>> Mark: Good evening, I'm Mark
Kelly, and welcome to
the "Fifth Estate".
>> Tonight we'll show you
something you have likely never
seen before unless you have sat
in court during a sexual assault
case.
It's a rare glimpse into our
criminal justice system, and an
illustration of why many women
who have been sexually
assaulted don't even bother
going to police.
[♪♪]
>> Mark: This is the story of
Mandy Gray, a PHD student in
Sociology at York University in
Toronto.
She has decided to take a gamble
that will unfold on camera.
[♪♪]
>> Mark: It all started in
January 2015.
Some friends are out at a pub
when Gray sends a text to
another York grad student asking
him to join them.
He does.
He and Gray will eventually end
up as his apartment, where she
says he sexually assaulted her.
Police laid charges, and now she
is awaiting trial.
>> Lawyer David Butt is helping
Gray with her case.
He's warned her her chances of
winning are slim at best
>> Out of every estimated 1,000
sexual assaults or episodes of
sexual violence, three result in
convictions.
So that's a failure rate of
99.7%.
>> Any organization, public or
private sector, that had that
success rate would be the
laughing stock, and yet we
continue to merrily carry on as
if our justice system is serving
the needs of women in these
offences.
>> Mark: So why do so many cases
fail?
Just watch.
To prepare Gray, Butt stages a
mock trial using the real facts
of the case.
He will play the lawyer for the
accused.
They allowed our cameras into
the room.
What you are about to see is
completely unscripted.
>> Ms. Gray, I'd just like to
ask you a few questions.
>> It's an exceptional insight
into what happens when the
victim feels like she is the one
on trial.
>> I am going to suggest to you
that you had a level of
familiarity with him where
having some physical contact
whether it be a hand on the
shoulder, a hand around the
shoulder, not something out of
the ordinary for you in your
relationship to that point, fair
enough?
>> Yeah.
>> Mark: Cross-examination is a
subtle interrogation.
Watch as Butt surgically
dissects her story and her
memory.
>> And people were drinking.
It's a cafe.
Quite naturally people are
drinking at the cafe, fair
enough?
>> Yes.
>> And that includes you?
>> Yes.
>> And quite naturally, you
don't have a little notebook
where you are marking down each
millilitre of alcohol you
ingest, fair enough?
>> Right.
>> And so if I were to suggest
to you that, as with any person
out just for a night, quantities
of alcohol consumed, inevitably,
are estimates, fair?
>> Yes.
>> And those estimates can be
wrong, either high and low,
can't they?
>> Yes.
>> Mark: Ten minutes in, and
Butt begins to turn the tables
on Gray.
>> And at a certain point, you
actually approach my client and
you ask if you can spend the
night at his place, don't you?
>> I did ask, yes.
>> Yeah.
And, at the time, you, of
course, had an apartment?
>> Yes.
>> You are living on your own?
>> Yes.
>> And there is nothing
preventing you from going back
to your apartment that night?
>> I had a bad experience in a
cab a few weeks prior to, so
that deterred me from wanting to
be in a cab intoxicated alone,
so I figured it would be safer
to go to a friend's apartment.
>> Okay.
There is nothing wrong with
having a friend ride in a cab
with you, though, is there?
>> I live north, so it made
sense, and I had spent the night
there before, so it seems
appropriate.
>> Okay.
So bottom line, this was a
choice of convenience and you
were happy to make that choice;
right?
>> Yes.
>> And you made that choice
knowing that you certainly did
have alternatives?
That wasn't the only apartment
that you could have stayed at;
fair enough?
>> I -- I guess.
>> Mark: Gray's hesitant answers
are an opening for the lawyer to
try to create reasonable doubt.
>> You stayed until closing
time?
>> Yes.
Until the lights came on.
>> Okay.
So you really made a night of
it.
You shut the bar down, in other
words, to use a colloquial
expression?
>> Yes.
>> And I am going to suggest
that staying until the bar
closing, you drank until the bar
closed?
>> From what I can remember,
yes.
>> Okay.
And when you say "from what you
can remember", in fairness, you
are saying that because your
memory of the night is not
perfect; fair to say?
>> It was a while ago now, so I
don't remember when I had my
last drink.
>> Okay.
And you were drinking?
>> And I was drinking.
>> And, like everybody, alcohol
has both a disinhibiting effect
and a little bit of an effect on
your memory, fair to say?
>> Yes.
>> You are like everybody else
in that respect, aren't you?
>> Yes.
>> And you go back to his
apartment as you had planned?
>> Yes.
>> And as you had requested?
>> Yes.
>> And it's at the apartment
where sexual activity takes
place that you say was
nonconsensual?
>> Yes.
>> Mark: With no physical
evidence, this case, like most
sexual assaults, comes down to
two competing versions, he said,
she said, and the "she" usually
loses.
>> I am going to suggest to you
that that encounter was at your
instigation, and that it was
entirely consensual.
>> I don't know how to respond
to that.
>> Do you agree or disagree?
>> I disagree because I was
really confused as to why he
would do that to me.
>> So you were confused about
what happened that night;
weren't you?
>> I don't -- I was confused
about why he would do that to
me.
>> Mm-hm.
I am going to suggest that you
were confused because you
regretted engaging in those
sexual relations that you had
initiated the night before.
>> I didn't initiate any of it
aside from asking to spend the
night at his apartment.
That's all I initiated.
>> You did more than initiate
that.
You went home with him.
You had -- didn't you?
>> But that doesn't equate with
consent.
>> Just answer my question.
You went home with him?
>> Yes.
I didn't know I was in an unsafe
situation.
>> Right.
Because you weren't, were you?
>> I was.
>> I am going to suggest that
this is not a case of
nonconsensual sexual relations.
This is a case of consensual
sexual relations with someone
you knew, with someone you were
familiar with, that you
subsequently regretted.
That's very different from
consent, and that's what
happened, isn't it?
>> No.
>> Those are all the questions
that I have.
>> Mark: Remember, Butt is on
her side.
He is just preparing her for
what may happen in court.
>> What I was endeavouring to do
there is set up a scenario where
a reasonable person who is not
connected to either side, a
judge, can say, gosh, you know,
the accused person's scenario of
consensual sex as it unfolded
that evening, plausible.
And if it is simply plausible,
it doesn't have to be true, if
it is simply plausible, there is
a reasonable doubt, and my
client is acquitted.
So that's you will have to do in
a cross-examination is establish
plausibility.
>> Mark: This cross-examination
left Gray stunned at how quickly
a lawyer could turn the tables
on her.
>> It definitely feels stacked
up against me, and I feel like I
am the one on trial, and that I
am being questioned and it is
also a questioning of my
credibility as well.
>> Mark: Now, seeing this, you
may understand why more women
don't go to the police, but what
about when they turn to your
universities for help?
You might think they would be
more understanding and
supportive than the criminal
courts, but, as we'll show you,
that's not always the case.
>> After 3.
1, 2, 3.
>> We are UBC.
>> Fantastic.
>> Mark: Coming up, on the other
side of the country, another
campus, another complaint, this
time from four women who say one
of Canada's biggest universities
is doing little to protect them
from someone they say is a
campus predator
>> When it's not just two
stories, when it's three
stories, when it's more than
that, any argument to suggest
all these women independently
decided to fabricate something
doesn't make any sense.
>> My friends, let's me speak
from my heart in Russian.
[♪♪]
[♪♪]
>> UBC!
[CHEERING]
>> Mark: Frosh week at the
University of British Columbia.
New students navigating their
way through the sea of
unfamiliar faces.
The campus is like a small town,
50,000 students are enrolled
here.
This is where new friendships
will be forged, and where lives
will be changed forever.
[CHATTER]
>> Mark: That's exactly what
happened on May 26th, 2014.
Two men and a woman, all
students from UBC's prestigious
Green College, were catching up
at a pub.
>> Cheers.
Cheers.
Cheers.
>> Mark: They decided to crash
at her place, which was off
campus in another town.
What happened next is her
version of the events of that
night.
She didn't want her name or
identity revealed.
We're calling her Jane Doe
>> I sleep on the third floor.
They are going to be on the
second floor.
That will be fine.
Like, there is a whole set of
stairs just in case there was
any ambiguity.
I will be up there.
That's fine
>> Mark: But it wasn't fine, as
she would soon find out.
>> I remember, sort of, like,
being semi woken up because I
was in pain, and waking up for a
second, realizing what was
happening and why I was in pain.
I started crying, and then I
blacked out again.
>> Mark: She remembered little
except the face of one of
the men named Dmitry.
She says he climbed the stairs
and then into bed with her.
[♪♪]
>> In the morning, he was
shaking me awake because he
needed a cab to go to the
airport.
I was naked and wrapped in a
sheet, and I ran downstairs to
get a cab.
Got him out of the house,
started crying because of what I
thought had happened.
>> Mark: What did you think had
happened?
>> That he had raped me, and, at
the time, I was like, you know
what, I was really drunk.
Maybe that was a nightmare, and
then I went to the washroom, and
I was in pain and I was
bleeding, and I was like, okay,
that was not a nightmare, I did
not imagine that
>> Mark: Jane Doe says she went
to the hospital the next day to
get a rape kit done, but she
couldn't bring herself to
contact police.
Instead, she suffered in
silence.
What Jane Doe didn't know is she
wasn't alone.
There were other victims who say
they were assaulted by the same
man, and, like her, they were
all students at UBC
>> But the university, like most
others in Canada, doesn't have a
sexual assault policy.
Such a policy would ensure
complaints are resolved quickly
and students are given the
resources to feel safe on
campus.
Jane Doe was a grad student at
UBC's Green College.
It's a small residence nestled
in the trees on the ocean's edge
of the University's sprawling
campus.
It's an ideal academic retreat
for about 80 post-graduate
students who live by the
college's motto, ideas and
friendship.
That motto, those ideals, were
about to be put to the test.
[♪♪]
>> Mark: One year earlier, a
female foreign student who
was living at Green College said
a grad student named Dmitry was
alone with her in her room.
She said she had had a few
drinks and remembers waking up
with her pants off, and he was
on top of her.
She pleaded with him to stop.
[♪♪]
>> Mark: Two months later, April
13, 2013, Several grad students
were out for a few drinks.
Kaitlynn Cunninham remembers it
well.
>> We were at a social event for
a number of graduate students.
We were, kind of, playing games,
chatting, hanging out, I mean,
graduate school is stressful, so
it was, kind of, a great way to
get to know people, and he was
there.
>> Mark: The man she was with
that night?
Dmitry Mordvinov, a baby-faced,
28-year-old, foreign student
from Russia.
He is pursuing his PHD in
history at UBC while living at
Green College.
As a group walked to the pub he
approached Cunningham.
>> I had a ponytail in my hair,
and he started pulling my hair.
And, you know, at first when
someone is doing something, it's
mildly annoying and you say,
ha-ha, you know, please stop.
But he continued to do it, and
my concern escalated.
I got more and more panicky
about it, and after pulling my
hair a couple of times, he
actually put me in a headlock,
so he, kind of, held my head
against his body with, sort of,
my face towards his groin, at
which point I was yelling.
>> Mark: Cunningham eventually
broke free from his grasp then
slapped him.
She was shaken and furious, but
she didn't report the incident
to anyone.
[♪♪]
>> Mark: Nine months later,
another night out for the Green
College grad students.
This time, Mordvinov takes a
fellow student back to his room
where she claims he starts
forcing himself on her.
She flees in fear, but
unlike the other women, she
doesn't stay silent.
She files a complaint with UBC
administration.
Mordvinov knew that she told
other residents at Green College
about the incident, so he sent
her a message obtained by the
"Fifth Estate".
>> Mark: By the spring of 2014,
two women had now complained to
UBC administration about
Mordvinov saying he had sexually
assaulted them.
The file on him was growing, but
the administration kept the
information secret.
So how was Jane Doe to know the
chance she was taking when she
allowed her fellow student,
Dmitry, to stay the night?
>> From what I understand, there
was complaints that were made
against him formally to UBC
before me.
>> Mark: But you never knew
about that?
>> No, I didn't know that.
>> Mark: And had you been made
aware of those complaints, when
it came time to letting him into
your house --
>> Yeah, I wouldn't have -- of
course I wouldn't have let him
into my house
>> Mark: Jane Doe had graduated
from UBC, but she wanted to
protect other women from
Mordvinov, so she sounded the
alarm.
>> I called someone at Green and
I asked them to -- I told them
exactly what happened, and I
said please go to the
administration and tell them
what happened and tell them who
-- who was the victim and tell
them who did it.
>> Mark: Mordvinov tried to calm
the gathering storm.
In an e-mail he sent to friends
at Green College, he said the
incident with Jane Doe was all a
misunderstanding.
>> Mark: But then a stunning
admission.
>> Mark: If he hoped the apology
would make the problem go away,
he was dead wrong.
The story of Jane Doe's sexual
assault spread through the
tight-knit Green College campus,
and the other women who had
filed complaints now knew they
weren't alone.
Kaitlynn Cunningham told UBC
officials about the night he
assaulted her.
She wanted to help UBC build a
case against him
>> I wanted the University to
know because I thought they
would know what to do.
>> Mark: Right.
>> And have some kind of
procedure.
>> Mark: You felt you were doing
the right thing?
>> Yeah, I thought I was helping
them to do the right thing,
yeah.
>> Mark: Pressure was now
building on the administration
to reign in the grad student
many women felt was a predator
>> So when you told your friend
and had your friend go to the
administration --
>> Mm-hm.
>> Mark: -- what were you hoping
the administration would do with
that information?
>> I was positive that he would
be kicked out of the college
because I thought there was no
way that that information --
that anyone would get to -- the
privilege of remaining in a
community that is that
tight-knit and because it is
that tight-knit, people are
exposed to this kind of danger.
>> Mark: Coming up, we ask what
does is take to get a Canadian
university to act on multiple
complaints of sexual assault.
>> You have five complaints
about one individual, aren't
your alarm bells going off?
>> Yeah, my alarm bells are
going off.
[♪♪]
>> Mark: The University of
British Columbia is the pride of
the province that bears its
name.
The school is ranked among the
top 40 in the world.
Its graduates include two
Canadian Prime Ministers, Nobel
prize winners, and dozens of
Olympic medalists, but many
women feel there is a predator
living in the long shadow of the
school's lofty reputation, a
fellow grad student named Dmitry
Mordvinov.
>> One of the women confronted
him online accusing him of
assaulting her when she was
drunk.
His reply?
Let's just forgive and forget.
>> Mark: The "Fifth Estate"
contacted half a dozen people
who had filed complaints to UBC
about Mordvinov from
inappropriate touching to sexual
assault.
The women who lived with him at
UBC's Green College residence
felt, in their words, he was a
menace that needed to be stopped
and they were expecting the
school would back them up.
>> Now, more than ever, the
women wanted UBC to take action.
They would soon learn the
school's equity inclusion
office, whose job it is to deal
with these complaints, had
a different approach.
Conflict manager, Monica Kay's,
advice to the women, according
to the student, Glyniss Kirk
Myer, keep it quiet.
>> We can't have you guys tell
anybody or talk about this or
say that there is -- not even
intimate that there is a problem
because that is like if people
know there are snakes in the
grass but they can't see the
snakes, they will get really
afraid.
>> Mark: Kaitlynn Cunningham
says she heard about the snakes
from Kay too when she filed a
complaint.
She says the issue of sexual
assault needs to be amplified
not silenced.
>> There is a million snakes in
the room.
That is what sexual assault is
all about.
That's why we need to have a
conversation about it.
>> Mark: That's the point
>> That's the whole point.
>> Mark: Monica Kay didn't reply
to our request for an interview.
[♪♪]
>> Mark: The administration
finally came forward with a
proposal.
A face-to-face meeting between
the women and the man they say
attacked them.
>> My response was I am really
not comfortable with a
mediation.
I -- I don't want to sit in a
room with this student, and I
don't think it's appropriate for
assault, especially sexual
assault, that you sit in a room
and have a mediation.
>> Mark: The women rejected
mediation.
Cunningham said UBC had another
suggestion, get a lawyer.
>> I am basically being told by
an official at the university
that I might think about legal
representation, which was scary
to me because I thought what am
I doing that needs a lawyer?
[♪♪]
>> Mark: Mordvinov, we're told,
was still pursuing his PHD
in history, seemingly oblivious
to the political storm brewing
all around him.
[♪♪]
>> Mark: More and more students
began to feel UBC was trying to
ride the storm out, just hoping
for the crisis to blow over.
That's when the grad students
ramped up the pressure.
They drew up a petition
demanding the history department
where Mordvinov was studying,
stand up for the students
>> What can we do?
Like, this has come to our
attention.
This makes us very unsafe, and
where do we go from here?
>> Mark: Kaitlynn Russell was an
executive on the history grad
students association.
She presented the petition to
the head of the university
department who promptly rejected
it.
In an e-mail to the students,
Tina Loo said the petition was
potentially problematic legally
because of the allegations of
harassment it contained.
But in a meeting, the students
say Tina Loo went one step
further.
Russell says she was stunned by
what she heard.
>> She said that she could not
allow us to present the
statement as it is.
The statement that the graduate
students had wanted to bring
forward was politically
inflammatory and was endangering
to the department and the
department's culture.
We were like, well, what if we
just refer to it and say this is
an issue that we want to talk
about.
And she said that she would shut
us down.
>> Mark: Paul Krause has been
teaching history here for 27
years.
The next day at a full meeting
of the departmental faculty, he
raised the issue of the petition
in front of everyone.
>> The head of the department
said you cannot do this publicly
because it's politically
inflammatory, and that act, I
would say, caused some deep
wounds in our department, and we
have a lot of rebuilding of
trust to do because of
that.
It was unfortunate.
A university is supposed to be
able to deal with inflammatory
issues in a thoughtful way, in a
sensitive way.
>> Mark: What is the reluctance
for the University to act on
this issue?
>> I'm -- I really don't know.
>> Mark: Krouse went public with
his concerns about UBC's
attempts to silence the
students, publishing a
blistering article that would
cause a stir.
The message they delivered to
those who have been assaulted is
SHH.
Administrators and faculty worry
more about their corporate
careers than their students.
>> The damage is we send out a
signal that we have abandoned
them.
That we don't care about them.
And the corporate brand of UBC
and of the care that we give to
it in the public arena is more
important than signalling to our
students we care about you.
We're going to make sure you
have a safe place.
[♪♪]
>> Mark: Spring of 2015, almost
a year since UBC had been told
about Jane Doe's sexual assault
and a year and a half since
other complaints about Dmitry
Mordvinov had come to light.
Jane Doe had since graduated, so
you can imagine the shock when
she heard the man she had
accused of assaulting her hadn't
been disciplined in any way.
>> The universities have
complete control over who lives
in their buildings, how, when
and why, and if he had damaged
property, he would have been out
of there in five minutes.
If he was too noisy, he would
have been out of there in five
minutes, but because it's not
things that the University can
clearly point to as, you know,
being detrimental to them in a
way that they understand, then
it's apparently more complicated
for them.
>> Mark: We put the UBC case to
the former head of the
sexual assault squad at Toronto
Police Services.
Tom Lynch is now the head of
campus security at an Ontario
college.
>> 95% of reported, you know,
survivors or victims of sexual
assault don't want to speak to
persons in authority, so when a
university has a sexual assault
policy, I think that's a great
idea because when you may not
understand or may not have
thought about is that we really
want to address the 95%.
>> Mark: Lynch says if schools
like UBC can act quickly to deal
with sexual assault complaints,
it will encourage more victims
to come forward.
>> If you have five complaints
about one individual, are your
alarm bells going off?
>> Yeah, my alarm bells are
going off.
I am going to suggest to you
that I, no hesitation would take
-- if the evidence was there, I
would take action.
>> Mark: Jane Doe took her
complaint to UBC's
administration specifically
because she couldn't bring
herself to face police or the
rough justice of the criminal
courts.
>> Okay.
So I am supposed to go explain
this to the police, try to get
them to believe me, testify in
court, and have a defence lawyer
try and get me to say it was
consensual and then after all
that, a really horrible and
degrading and humiliating
experience, to have it not even
end up being likely end up in a
conviction?
No way in hell.
There is no universe in which
that is worth it to me
>> Mark: It my seem like female
students feel they have nowhere
to go.
The courts are a crap shoot and
universities aren't stepping up.
So what are women to do?
Coming up, a provocative
campaign tries a new approach.
[♪♪]
>> Thanks for keeping your mouth
shut.
[♪♪]
[♪♪]
[SCHOOL BELL RINGING]
>> Show me the good ones.
>> Thanks for not telling my
girlfriend.
>> Mark: All across North
America public awareness
campaigns like this are trying
to help educate people about
what some call an epidemic of
sexual violence.
>> Thanks for minding your own
business.
[♪♪]
>> Thanks for keeping your mouth
shut.
[♪♪]
>> Hi.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
>> Thanks for not telling
anyone.
[♪♪]
>> When you do nothing, you are
helping him.
But when you do something, you
help her.
>> It's on us to stop sexual
assault.
>> Mark: In the U.S., the fight
to end sexual violence went all
the way to the White House.
>> It's on us, all of us, to
stop sexual assault.
>>President Obama: Learn how and
take the pledge at itsonus.org.
[♪♪]
>> Mark: UBC did launch its own
campaign it fall to educate
students about the critical
issue of sexual consent, though
it was criticized by students
for being a little simplistic
for such a serious issue.
But what had the school done
about the PHD student from Green
College?
>> My friends, let's me speak
from my heart in Russian.
>> Mark: Dmitry Mordvinov was
still pursuing his PHD in
history at UBC, still trying to
keep the complaints about him at
bay.
After Jane Doe went public with
her story of sexual assault, he
sent her friends this e-mail.
>> Mark: May 2015, after more
than a year of multiple
complaints, petitions, and
pressure from the students, UBC
finally moves on Mordvinov.
The school tells him he is
temporarily banned from campus
while his case is being
investigated, but it's a
sanction without consequence.
Mordvinov was off campus already
doing research in Russia.
>> Contacted by the "Fifth
Estate", Mordvinov declined an
interview, and dismissed UBC's
investigation as a witch hunt.
>> Mark: Paul Krouse, the
veteran history teacher at UBC,
wonders why the school had not
gone further
>> How can it be this student is
still receiving funds from UBC?
He has a fellowship from our
department.
He still represents the
University.
I -- I am at a loss to explain
that, and I am embarrassed by
this.
>> Mark: It's a sentiment shared
by the women who filed
complaints against Mordvinov.
>> Sexual assault is a big topic
right now.
Especially sexual assault on
university campuses, and
universities are not doing
enough about that.
>> I can understand when it's
one story that you have some
kind of reservations about the
he said she said problem, but
when it's not just two stories,
when it's three stories, when
it's more than that, then any
argument to suggest that all
these women independently
decided to fabricate something
doesn't make any sense.
>> Mark: Kaitlynn Russel who
helped draft the petition from
the history grad students
association is much more blunt.
>> The takeaway message from
this whole thing has been
that one male student is somehow
more valuable to this
institution than a handful or a
dozen or however many women.
>> Mark: We contacted UBC for an
interview to ask what they plan
to do about Mordvinov.
But citing privacy concerns, no
one from the school would
discuss the case with us on or
off camera.
One thing we can say is after
all of this, the University
still doesn't have a sexual
assault policy in place with a
clear protocol to investigate
and address students'
complaints.
>> But UBC certainly isn't
alone.
An investigation in 2014 by the
"Toronto Star" revealed only 9
of 102 universities and colleges
in Canada had a special sexual
assault policy.
Joanne says that has to change.
The Toronto lawyer represents
many sexual assault survivors in
court.
>> If a doctor is accused of
sexually assaulting his
patients, it's not like colleges
of physicians and surgeons
across the country say, oh, the
police are looking into it so we
have no role or responsibility.
Quite the opposite.
Colleges of physicians and
surgeons have a legal obligation
to respond quite apart from
whether or not charges are laid
or that doctor is ultimately
acquitted or convicted.
>> Mark: She is now taking on
the case of that York University
student who is preparing for her
sexual assault trial.
Mandy Gray has now filed a human
rights the complaint against
York University.
She says she is doing this to
help protect other students who
are victims of sexual assault.
>> So I think that's why it's so
imperative, and I keep saying I
want to ensure I am the last
woman who contemplates dropping
out because she has been
assaulted, and that was my
position.
I thought I was going to drop
out.
I contacted professors at other
universities just hoping to
find somebody willing to take me
in the middle of the school year
because I just could not imagine
having to come back here and
attend class with my rapist.
>> Mark: Back at UBC, and
shortly before we were scheduled
to go to air, the school quietly
informed the women, via e-mail,
that Mordvinov is now gone from
the school.
He is no longer a student at
UBC.
It comes almost a year and a
half after the first complaint
and after all but one of the
women had graduated.
>> But I couldn't help but feel
like -- like the attack itself
didn't make me a victim.
This process has made me a
victim of -- of procedure and of
bureaucracy, and I got lost in
the mess of it all.
I mean, the system is broken
from start to finish.
>> Mark: That's the reality of
campus life, students finish
their studies and move on, the
only one with institutional
memory of what happened in the
previous years are the staff and
faculty.
And sometimes the school keeps
secrets.
>> If the University isn't going
to take care of this or isn't
going to try and offer a safe
space for people to learn in,
then maybe, you know, it's
everybody else's job to try and
through, you know, the whisper
network let everyone be aware of
who the safe people are.
But by doing that, you're making
it really easy for predators.
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