SMU

[University staff responding to sexual assault] should be careful with the set of questions they ask, the questions regarding that incident. […] They should be careful with how they bring up the questions, like, be…

Participant 1: Both people may agree to have sex initially, but once they’ve broken up, or, something happens in between them later on- if someone uses that point to make a complaint about the other…

[If a friend was sexually assaulted], they would be scared and might not open their mouth about whatever has happened. As a friend, once I observe whether she is mentally okay and I take her…

I do have one more question regarding sexual assault that happens on campus. How exactly would the situation be handled? Let’s say if it’s, like, a student and a teacher kind of thing, like, how…

[If a friend told me she had experienced sexual assault], I would usually go for mental support. As a friend, that’s the best I can do. At first, I would tell her that I am…

Participant 1: I mean, the problem with the services that are free on campus, is that they are very slow. Like, the counselling services are very slow. If someone has to go and report something,…

I feel that when a person is reporting a case, it can have a little bit of influence depending on the gender of the person to whom they’re reporting. Let’s say, the person identifies as…

My immediate response, if [a friend has been sexually assaulted], is to care for her and to report. I didn’t want to let him go free. And the risk of being deported was there, but…

[A friend who discloses sexual assault] could be feeling very unsure at the moment, and they also don’t know what to say at the moment. And since this is sudden -. I also don’t think…

What another person just said was, how can you be sure that the person involved in the sexual assault case is not harmed in the process of filing a report or filing the case? Because…