No charges will be filed in IU sexual assault report

Prosecutors in Bloomington will not file criminal charges against a part-time Indiana University student police officer who a woman accused of sexually assaulting her in a residence hall on campus.

The office announced the decision Wednesday in a statement, saying that "the evidence presented is insufficient to file a criminal charge."

A 19-year-old female student reported to the Indiana University Police Department that a 25-year-old man sexually assaulted her between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on April 24 in a residence hall in the 1800 block of East 10th Street on campus, according to the Bloomington Police Department.

Because the accusation involved an IUPD officer, the agency referred the case to Bloomington Police, Bloomington Police Capt. Joe Qualters said.

The man was employed by IUPD as a part-time student police officer, but was suspended without pay pending an investigation, said Mark Land, a spokesman for Indiana University Bloomington.

The student later resigned from the force, Land said.

Land said the man lived in the residence hall in which the alleged assault was reported.

Part-time student police officers can live in residence halls free of charge in exchange for providing an extra layer of security, Land said.

The school has removed the man from the hall, Land said.

Police said the man and the woman offered different accounts of the night in question and both were reportedly intoxicated.

Qualters said police investigated, including interviewing a potential witness, and forwarded the case to the Monroe County prosecutor's office.

The woman could decide to pursue university discipline by initiating a case with the Office of Student Ethics, Land said.

"This is the first such report involving a live-in officer that we have ever had at IU Bloomington in well over a decade of having them work in residence halls," Land wrote in an email to the Star.

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