Parents of a murdered University of Utah track star say in court filing that their daughter's reports of abuse at the hands of an ex-boyfriend were treated “with deliberate indifference' and authorities minimized the threat due to 'gender stereotypes.'
“Lauren McCluskey was hunted down and killed in a parking lot on the University of Utah’s campus,” the filing states. “Under cover of darkness, her ex-boyfriend, Melvin Rowland, hid in the shadows, forced Lauren into the car he had been driving, and shot her seven times at close range.”The filing is part of a $56 million negligence lawsuit filed against the University of Utah and several individuals who work for the school by the victim’s parents, Jill and Matthew McCluskey.
The University of Utah had asked the court to dismiss the case in September, arguing that under Title IX — the federal law that, among other things, requires schools to investigate reports of sexual violence — it had no obligation to intercede because Rowland wasn’t a student or an employee and McCluskey had invited him to the campus when they first start dating.
Jill McCluskey said she was on the phone with her daughter shortly before the fatal encounter and could hear her yelling,In the weeks before her death, McCluskey had blocked Rowland's phone number and complained to campus police that he was harassing her, according to her family. McCluskey had also reported that Rowland was extorting her by threatening to post compromising photos of her online. She said Rowland had also left a message posing as a police officer in an apparent attempt to get her to leave her university apartment.
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