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The Stanford Daily: A student reported her rapist to the University. Two years later, the perpetrator was suspended.

May 20. 2025


Maha Ibrahim, Managing Attorney for ERA’s Ending Sexual Violence in Education program, is featured in a Stanford Daily article about Stanford University’s egregious mishandling of sexual assault Title IX report.

“The fact that [the DA] feels they have enough to go on to pursue a criminal matter, but it took Stanford over 600 days to finish a campus misconduct proceeding based on the same facts, is to me, as somebody in the field, statistically wild,” Ibrahim said. “That’s pretty eyebrow raising.” …

Ibrahim is a trauma-informed lawyer. “We will act as a shield for the client,” Ibrahim said. “We sit down and tell the client, ‘The file contains this material we know isn’t true, and we’re going to slowly go through it with you and decide how to reply.’” However, Amy did not have access to resources like trauma-informed lawyers.

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