An alleged gang rape laid out on an anonymous Twitter account has sparked investigations at two elite Atlanta universities and set off a social-media firestorm.
The president of Atlanta’s Spelman College urged the voice behind the @RapedAtSpelman account to come forward, saying “our hearts go out to you… Please identify yourself to me, so that I may offer you my full support and assistance.”
“I know that members of our Spelman community join me in expressing heartbreak and outrage over the incidents and experiences recounted on Twitter,” Spelman College President Mary Schmidt Campbell added in a statement to students.
The @RapedAtSpelman account started posting on May 2.
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“This is my freshmen year at Spelman and my last year because I decided to leave after what happened to me,” the first Tweet read.
This is my freshmen year at Spelman and my last year because I decided to leave after what happened to me.
— Raped At Spelman (@RapedAtSpelman) May 2, 2016
The account went on to recount a story about partying with upperclassmen, including some from Morehouse College in Atlanta.
“I was drunk but that doesn’t mean I forgot about what happened. I went to the bathroom upstairs to throw up and when I opened the door I was…surrounded by 4 Morehouse students who took me to another room and took turns raping me,” the tweets say.
Spelman — a private women’s college — and Morehouse, a men’s college, are historically black colleges in the Atlanta area, and akin to brother-sister schools.
The anonymous poster said she went to file a report with the dean and with public safety after she was raped but that the school took a month to get back to her. When she did hear back from the dean, she was told that Spelman and Morehouse were “brother & sister so I should give them a pass,” according to a tweet.
“I don’t want to be at a school that does not make me feel safe and wants to silence me,” the account tweeted. “Spelman has taught me to be a free thinking woman and also to be a woman who has to keep her mouths closed to protect her “brothers.”
Spelman has taught me to be a free thinking woman and also to be a woman who has to keep her mouths closed to protect her "brothers".
— Raped At Spelman (@RapedAtSpelman) May 2, 2016
The president of Morehouse said the school’s Office of Campus Safety has been “activated” to fully investigate the claims “with the limited information” available.









