… Once the university became aware of [multiple] reported [sexual] assaults [alleged against a student], SFU conducted a safety assessment with the RCMP and “undertook measures to ensure the safety of the campus community,” spokesman Kurt Heinrich said. He refused to say what those measures were.
But whatever was done, the second complainant’s mother says it wasn’t enough.
The alleged assailant was in one of her daughter’s classes, the mother said in a telephone interview. Her daughter ran into him in the residence. She saw him at the gym and in the dining room.
If none of her dorm friends was home, she would lock herself in her room and not go to the dining room for meals.
In mid-February, the mother wrote to SFU President Andrew Petter after her daughter was told that there were at least two women who had gone to police about the male student. She also later wrote to Provost Jon Driver and spoke to him on several occasions.
A few weeks later, the young woman — who loved her classes — quit university and moved home.
Eventually, the alleged assailant was moved to another residence after continued complaints from her friends. No warnings were given to female students there about the new resident.
And, far from being punishment, someone familiar with the case described it “a massive room upgrade.”