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Utah State denies it knew about multiple reported sex assaults, asks for lawsuit to be dismissed

Courts • School seeks to have student’s lawsuit dismissed.

Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Victoria Hewlett has filed a lawsuit against Utah State University after she was raped and sexually assaulted multiple times by Jason Relopez, in 2015. Relopez is now in prison, but Hewlett is suing because USU knew about accusations leveled against Relopez a year before he raped her, yet the school did nothing. November 1, 2016