Woman says college failed to protect her from rapist

ROME, Ga. – A college student filed a lawsuit accusing the school of failing to protect her from a former student who allegedly stalked, assaulted and repeatedly raped her.

The woman said the school received repeated complaints of attacks by the man but did nothing about it.

The woman filed the lawsuit Tuesday against Berry College and Marcus Sandelowsky, who has transferred to another school. He has not been charged, and denied the allegations when confronted by college officials last spring.

The lawsuit claims the incidents took place from September 2001 to February.

Two other women accused Sandelowsky of attacking them after the private college was alerted to the assaults on the first woman, the lawsuit says. It claims the college about 65 miles northwest of Atlanta did not inform local police, instead treating the incidents as a disciplinary matter.

Sandelowsky, 21, was expelled in April after a college judicial board found him guilty of sexually harassing and assaulting the women, according to college documents. Sandelowsky later was allowed to withdraw from school without punishment, according to the lawsuit.