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Police say Iowa fraternity member distributed photo of sexual assault
for five days. Makena Solberg tried to fill the gap in her memory according to her civil lawsuit. She went to a party at the Fiji fraternity house on the University of Iowa campus september 4th 2020 the next morning. She couldn’t remember a huge piece of the night and then started feeling very dizzy sick to my stomach confused. So I asked my roommate if she had any water if she could find water. I guess one the other guy offer that there was some in his room and that is when I didn’t even question it because I felt ill. So I went and followed him to get the water and then after that I don’t remember what transpired overnight might have stayed. A mystery had there not been pictures according to a search warrant application. Iowa city police officers have a photo showing the sexual encounter that a witness says didn’t look okay When I woke up. I was very sick, I was very queasy, I was throwing up and it felt like I was beat up from the night before according to a civil lawsuit, Makena filed Tuesday. Two fraternity members lured her into a bedroom after she was physically ill and closed the door. What happened next? They reportedly captured with their phones. McCain’s attorney says he has seen one such image shocked. I was shocked. You know, I’m a, I’ve seen a lot of bad behavior from a lot of people in cases and I was shocked at the humorous and the swear audacity that I saw on the face of one of the perpetrators as he posed for the photo for days. Makena said she didn’t know why she had so many new bruises until friends and acquaintances linked the pictures and supposedly a video to her. When did you go to police immediately? When I found out that night, the two men, Makena say raped her. Have not been charged and have not commented on the allegations. A year after the party, an online petition went viral and 1000 students protested Fiji on behalf of the woman described in the change dot org petition. That’s what, when everything blew up and that’s when I decided I need to come out with this because I’m not giving up on it. Not giving up meant going public something. People who say they’ve been sexually assaulted rarely do I am coming forward with my case not just for myself, but for others who have gone through the same thing that needs support her lawsuit alludes to prior bad acts by the two fraternity members. It argues the fraternity itself is culpable as well as the National Fiji organization, not just for failing to prevent sexual abuse, but that this incident was a coordinated and planned effort by fraternity members beyond the two specifically accused. Do you feel that what has happened to you is the fault of the two men alone? Just them alone? No. So you’re hoping through discovery. You may find that McKenna’s incident is not isolated. That is a suspicion of ours yet and we need to go through that discovery process to learn because currently The evidence is being held in sort of different silos that we don’t have ready access to Makena. Solberg knows she can’t undo what happened that September night in 2020. But if she could, she’d give her younger self some advice. You’re going to be okay. Even though I’m gonna feel like this, it’ll be okay. Oh, you got me crying. Um, I don’t know. So look at the positives. Try not to lash out as much and worry so much. This wasn’t a stranger who snatched you off the street while you were in an alley. What would you say to him? I wish you never did that very disappointed.
Police say Iowa fraternity member distributed photo of sexual assault
An arrest has been made in connection to the distribution of images of a sexual assault that occurred at the University of Iowa’s FIJI house in 2020, according to police reports. In October, Makena Solberg’s lawyers filed a lawsuit against two FIJI members and the national FIJI organization Phi Gamma Delta Education Foundation Inc. According to the lawsuit, Solberg was invited to the fraternity house for a sanctioned event during the fall of 2020. While at the event, lawyers claim that two men conspired to lure Solberg into a bedroom and engage in sexual activity without her consent. Court documents state she was “intoxicated, physically impaired and physically vulnerable,” which the defendants were aware of.The petition states photographs or videos of the sexual activity were also taken without Solberg’s consent and distributed on social platforms. A police report filed Monday shows that the police arrested Carson Steffen for first-degree harassment. Steffen has been accused of sending a photo to multiple people on Snapchat of the victim engaged in a sex act without consent. The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports that police do not have intentions of arresting the man accused of sexually assaulting Solberg at this time.
An arrest has been made in connection to the distribution of images of a sexual assault that occurred at the University of Iowa’s FIJI house in 2020, according to police reports.
In October, Makena Solberg’s lawyers filed a lawsuit against two FIJI members and the national FIJI organization Phi Gamma Delta Education Foundation Inc. According to the lawsuit, Solberg was invited to the fraternity house for a sanctioned event during the fall of 2020.
While at the event, lawyers claim that two men conspired to lure Solberg into a bedroom and engage in sexual activity without her consent. Court documents state she was “intoxicated, physically impaired and physically vulnerable,” which the defendants were aware of.
The petition states photographs or videos of the sexual activity were also taken without Solberg’s consent and distributed on social platforms.
A police report filed Monday shows that the police arrested Carson Steffen for first-degree harassment.
Steffen has been accused of sending a photo to multiple people on Snapchat of the victim engaged in a sex act without consent.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports that police do not have intentions of arresting the man accused of sexually assaulting Solberg at this time.