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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
Of course, judicial charges and police charges are two different things. There have been many reports lately of the poor job schools do of handling rape and sexual assault cases. Police departments, though, may have no jurisdiction on college campuses. I hope that this works out for the OP and she can find closure.
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Yes, there is a big difference between filing a judicial charge and police charge. Many college campuses defer to the off-campus police (and higher legal authorities) when it comes to incidents like rape that far surpass the school's jurisdiction. Schools typically do not hire campus security and police to override larger legal authority on such incidents.
As an aside, Google has some examples of forms to file judicial charges for GCers who are unfamiliar with those.