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by belorn 3384 days ago
While its different in each country, I know that teachers and counselors can be required by law to personally report such crimes to the police. If I remember right, this is true for Sweden, which would in this case result in a police report and then no further actions or communications from the university (in order to allow the police to do a proper investigation without interference). If it is a student that is accused, then the university might not even be allowed to suspend the student, through the police can of course put the accused in holding if the police suspect a continuation of crimes or interference of the investigation.

Compared to the US system, I actually prefer this way since it puts the whole process into its proper place as soon as possible, and puts a form of common-sense approach when a university employee hear or witness a crime.

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There's also a reasonable Tarasoff case here, given Jacob's extensive and ongoing history.
I know that education institutes in Sweden sometimes move students if they consider that the person is continuing disruption the education, through as with all of this, there need to be documentation that they tried multiple methods to correct the situation and still failed. Moving students is seen as a last-attempt.

In the case of Jacob, we don't see any of those actions. No police report or investigation. No claim that he is continuing acting disruptive to the university, nor that they have tried and failed to correct that behavior. Basically no events or documented actions of jacob after the point he left the tor project.