Amanda Tackett says she and her husband were assured by University of Kansas athletic recruiters that their freshman daughter, a rower, would be safe in the school’s dormitories.
“Everything was safe and A-OK,” Tackett says the recruiters told them.
Then her daughter, Daisy Tackett, was allegedly sexually assaulted by a football player at Jayhawker Towers, the school’s main athletic dormitory.
KU’s assurance and what the Tacketts see as a broken promise are at the heart of a novel lawsuit the parents filed against the university last week, as their daughter recovers at their Florida home.
The suit essentially accuses the university of false advertising and violating the Kansas Consumer Protection Act.