Complaints surface about recurring violence against women at St. FX University
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There are renewed questions about how a major Nova Scotia university deals with sexualized violence on campus.
The latest questions at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., follow the laying of criminal charges against a student and former football player, Omogbolahan (Teddy) Jegede.
RCMP have charged Jegede, 22, with four counts of sexual assault involving four different women. Police say their investigation is continuing and they suspect there could be more complainants to come forward.
This is not the first time St. FX has faced such allegations.
In 2019, two former football players were acquitted of sexually assaulting a female student. The allegation stemmed from an incident at a party in one of the university dorms in November 2017.
In 2018, St. FX students protested on campus over the university's handling of other allegations.
In 2021, the university introduced a new reporting program to make it easier for students.
Despite all these measures and all these previous conversations, people who spoke to CBC News said they're not surprised by these latest allegations.
"From my co-workers, it's the same disappointment we get every single time and from everybody else it's, 'Oh, that's not surprising, that's not anything new,'" said one woman, who is a close friend of one of the complainants. We are calling her Jane Doe in this story to avoid the risk of identifying that complainant.
"It sucks that that's what we expect now," she said.
Doe said she has heard from friends and co-workers about other allegations against Jegede involving his treatment of women.
"I have a lot of friends that knew him and were aggressed by him in their first years," she said.
None of these allegations, including the four criminal charges, has yet been tested in court.
Alyssa Spridgeon, a former goalkeeper for St. FX's women's soccer team, said she wasn't surprised about the allegations.
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