The University of Montana has Known of Massive Rape Issues for Year. I TOLD Them, I have Been Ignored for Years.

"80 reported rapes in 3 years in University of Montana town triggers federal investigation
Attorney General Eric Holder calls the situation 'very disturbing"

"The Department of Justice is calling claims that a Montana college and its town failed to properly investigate dozens of sexual assaults “very disturbing,” and is launching its own investigation.

The University of Montana, in Missoula, has been under fire for months over how it's handled a slate of reported sexual assaults, including an alleged gang rape by members of its champion football team, the Montana Grizzlies."

"The ongoing controversy began in late 2010 when several sexual assault allegations, including two women who said they were drugged and gang raped by members of the football team, spurred a local investigation of the school. Last month, University President Royce Engstrom fired the football team’s head coach and athletic director. One member of the team, Beau Donaldson, was charged with rape and has pleaded not guilty.

Missoula Police Chief Mark Muir said the number of sexual assaults per capita in the town is at or below average the number for similar college towns, Reuters reported. There are about 15,000 students on campus.

But  Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, said in a press conference Tuesday that the investigation's primary focus isn't the number of allegations, but rather the response.

Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg vehemently denied any wrongdoing and said the federal probe represents an overreach of the government that sets a dangerous precedent, Reuters reported.

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Attorney General Eric Holder has ignored the information given regarding the massive Raped in Montana. Lincoln County, Ravalli County, Missoula County and more. The Judges protect the Criminal.

Attorney General Thomas Perez, Montana ACLU, County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg, The Missoula Police Department, the have all known for years. I for one sent them all information. Michael Spreadbury has talked to the University of Montana over and over about what is going on and they refused to listen.  Rape is Rampant in the State of Montana and it never seems to be prosecuted. The Department of Justice should contact cops who have left the state, one I know of involved in the Rape Scandal in Eureka years ago with the wrestling team.  Many Montana cops are horrified at that Rapes, and they the Power Structure, Attorney General and Good Ol' Boy System repeatedly protects the rapists, the stalkers, the criminals and they make the victim look like the Criminal.  The even get Judges to give illegal protective orders that protect the stalker from the victim, instead of the other way around and refuse to give mutual protection.

I want to Sue the University of Montana.  If anyone out there is launching a class action lawsuit, email me at SavvyBroker@Yahoo.com - I will Join You.

Yes " failed to properly investigate dozens of sexual assaults", Missoula, Libby Montana, Hamilton, Eureka, and many more Montana Towns have failed in the same way.  The authorities fail to look at Internet stats, they refuse to acknowledge rape kits, they protect the rapists over and over.  One Stalking led to a murder in Kalispell a couple of years ago. On Christmas Day...

http://www.dailyinterlake.com/news/local_montana/article_75389752-1224-11e0-af55-001cc4c002e0.html

The University of Man, sits back while this happens to people like me, and all I was doing was reporting on Rapes in Ravalli and Lincoln County and I Was Igored.  Rape Advocates called me, victims and cops called me, Rapist taunted me, and for years I have been harassed all because I spoke out about MASSIVE rapes in my Home State.

Do NOT ever Believe that the Missoula Police, the U of M Police, the Montana Governor, the Montana ACLU or the Montana Attorney General did not know, they have known for years and failed to investigate. I want to Sue them All for loss of my livlihood, my home, my business, and years of unbearable pain and suffering.. .  SavvyBroker@Yahoo.com 

Backlash of Royce Engstrom

I had written about Royce Engstrom's reputation would be at UM.

Yahoo news/Reuters wrote it for me:

Justice Department probes handling of Montana rape reports

By Laura Zuckerman | Reuters – 10 hrs ago

MISSOULA, Montana (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department unveiled a broad probe on Tuesday into complaints that authorities were failing to aggressively investigate sexual assault reports in Missoula, Montana, citing more than 80 reported rapes there during the past three years.

The investigation includes a review of the handling of sexual assault and harassment reports at the University of Montana at Missoula, where at least 11 student-related sex assault cases have surfaced in recent months.

At least two members of the university's Big Sky Conference champion football team, the Grizzlies, have been accused of rape, leading to the recent dismissal of the football coach and the school's athletic director.

A central thrust of the federal investigation will focus on complaints that local law enforcement has failed to properly investigate and prosecute sexual assaults on women in Missoula due to gender discrimination, the Justice Department said.

"The allegations that the University of Montana, the local police department and the county attorney's office failed to adequately address sexual assaults are very disturbing," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.

Local authorities said the incidence of rape in Missoula, a western Montana city of 86,000 people, is on par with similarly sized college towns, and the county's chief prosecutor questioned the Justice Department's rationale for its inquiry.

The investigation comes in the midst of an election year in which women's issues have moved to the forefront as candidates seek to burnish their credentials among female voters.

'STRONG CONCERNS' AMONG WOMEN CITED
The Justice Department probe will examine the inner workings of the university's public safety office, the Missoula Police Department and the Missoula County Attorney's Office.

Additionally, the department will review whether the university is complying with federal laws specifically barring sex discrimination, defined as including sexual assault and sexual harassment, in education programs, officials said.

Details of the investigation were announced at a news conference in Missoula, whose economy and identity are closely entwined with the state's flagship research institution.

"There are a lot of women in the community who have strong concerns about the manner in which sexual assaults have been handled," said Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division.

The Justice Department said local law enforcement agencies in New Orleans, Puerto Rico and Maricopa County, Arizona, have been subjected to similar investigations.

Missoula Police Chief Mark Muir acknowledged his department had received roughly 80 rape reports in the past three years. But he said that on a per-capita basis, that figure was at or below the average level of reported rapes for U.S. college towns of similar size and makeup.

Muir, who said his department would cooperate with the inquiry, said he did not know how many of those reports had resulted in criminal charges being filed. Justice Department officials said they will be delving into that very question.

Missoula County's chief prosecutor, Fred Van Valkenburg, fiercely defended his office and the local police, calling the Justice Department probe an "overreach by the federal government."

"I have no reason to believe (police) violated anyone's rights," he said, adding that his office had no choice but to cooperate given "the heavy hand of a federal government that refuses to tell us what we supposedly have done wrong."

Concerns about the handling of sexual assaults in Missoula came to a head months ago at the University of Montana, a campus of some 15,600 students, after a spate of rapes were reported on campus, some involving student athletes.

A University of Montana report released in January identified nine alleged student-related sexual assaults or attempted assaults since late 2010, including a reported gang rape. Two more sexual assault allegations involving students have surfaced since then.

Criminal charges have been filed so far in just one of those 11 cases under scrutiny - against Grizzlies' running back Beau Donaldson, who is accused of raping a woman at his residence while she slept following a night of heavy drinking.

Donaldson, who has pleaded not guilty, has been suspended from the team.

The football team captain and quarterback Jordan Johnson was accused of rape in March and placed under a restraining order granted to his accuser. No charges have been brought and he, too, maintains his innocence.

(Reporting by Laura Zuckerman; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Paul Simao)

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