The number of rapes reported at Virginia Commonwealth University’s main campus surged in 2022, university leaders determined recently after discovering missing data.
Earlier this fall, VCU reported five instances of rape on the Monroe Park Campus in 2022. On Tuesday, John Venuti, VCU’s Chief of Police, announced that it had underreported the data for two years and issued an apology.
In actuality, there were 20 instances of rape in 2022, the most in at least eight years and increases in other forms of sexual assault.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
