NIC settles suit in rape claim

North Idaho College has settled a lawsuit filed by a young women who charged that she was gang-raped as a 17-year-old freshman at an off-campus party in 2013, and that rather than addressing the incident, the college disciplined her when she began drinking and acting out after the attack.

NIC spokesman Tom Greene said the college reached the $75,000 settlement through its insurer, the Idaho Counties Risk Management Program, “to limit the costs and distraction associated with lengthy litigation.” NIC denied any liability or wrongdoing.

Rebecca Rainey, a Boise attorney representing the young woman, said, “We still think that they did not behave appropriately.” But she said her client agreed to the settlement for “the finality and the certainty of putting the matter behind her.”

The settlement releases all claims the young woman had against the Coeur d’Alene community college/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.