Jason Nguyen and Sophie Arts

Analysis: few sex crimes go to court

The Richmond Times-Dispatch released an analysis of forcible sex crimes at seven Virginia universities this week which found that no cases involving student-on-student assault resulted in criminal prosecution from 2008 through 2010. In the 15 crimes reported at the University between those years, only two people were accused and convicted - neither of whom were students. The Times-Dispatch analysis also showed that Virginia Tech was the only university to report it had expelled a student for sexual misconduct. Claire Kaplan, director of Sexual and Domestic Violence Services at the University's Women's Center, confirmed the findings of the study, saying "it addresses some of the problems that prosecutors have." The study revealed that victims rarely pressed charges and if they did it was very hard to prove their allegations because of a lack of evidence. "I've been in this office for more than 20 years and can count the number of criminal charges that were filed against U.Va.