Louis Theroux Investigates Campus Assaults In America’s Colleges
At a time of increased scrutiny about what constitutes sexual assault, award-winning documentary-maker Louis Theroux heads to American college campuses and comes face-to-face with students whose universities are accusing them of sexual assault.
As reports of sexual violence have dramatically increased in recent years, the government has urged US colleges to enforce a stricter code of sexual conduct amongst students. Employing specialist administrators to carry out investigations into alleged misdemeanors, they now have the power to permanently exclude those they deem ‘responsible’. For the victims of sexual assault these new processes, which require less stringent levels of proof than criminal cases, have allowed accusations that might have never been heard in a court of law to be vindicated. But alleged perpetrators believe the attempt to be more vigilant about rape and assault has turned into an overreaction that tramples on due process, and harms innocent people.
At the start of this journey, Louis meets a neuroscience major called Saif Khan, who has been accused of raping a fellow student. His university is investigating the claims separately even though Saif has been found not-guilty in a court of law. Though Saif continuously pleads his innocence, Louis is drawn into an increasingly complex world, where separating fact from fiction becomes increasingly challenging.
He also meets young women whose claims of sexual assault have previously fallen on deaf ears, who believe that a new approach to handling allegations of sex crimes is not only necessary but long overdue. One such student is Mollie Johnson, whose experience is a powerful reminder that there is now a broader understanding of what sexual assault looks like.
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@Jjplouc4
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
could you hve been more bias
@reesegrey9423
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
I love that this dude thought he was exonerating himself, but he just proved that he's guilty. Who wants to keep having s*x after the person you're with is puking?
@destination2013
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Any rape “victim” who is friendly to the accused male after the “rape”…. was not raped. Actual rapists deserve the death penalty. But false accusers also deserve the death penalty. I have no idea about the guilt of the person in this video. But take for example, the case of “mattress girl“. She sent friendly texts to the accused male after the so-called “rape”. She asked him to get together with her. Only later did she concoct her story. Mattress Girl was not raped. Here is a copy of a text. She sent him days after the “rape”:
“Also I feel like we need to have some real time where we can talk about life and thingz
because we still haven’t really had a paul-emma chill sesh since summmmerrrr….
I love you Paul. Where are you?!?!?!?!”
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Emma the mattress girl is not a victim. She’s a conniver.
@dominiquealaska7490
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
This video is literally painful to get through, because Saif is beyond insufferable. (I know he’s just doing his job, but still) His lawyer sucks too and the normalization of the concept “morning after regrets” and “buyers remorse” is horrifying. It’s difficult to not spiral into a rant over this topic, and the roughly 2-8% of false reporters should be punished in a court of law for making an incredibly challenging situation 100x worse for the real victims. This entire “it wasn’t assault she just woke up regretful and embarrassed of her actions” belief is vile and totally detrimental to any potential progress that could be made around consent.
@metroscene
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Upon first glance of him in the car: he did it. You can tell in the eyes. They carry themselves a certain way.
@josephgriffith4770
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
How did this guy think Louis Theroux would make him look innocent?!!
@kellymurphy6642
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Sorry Jesse but I like this guys reporting style better
@Goooo_uuuuuu
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Dropping all the Louis's!!
@Bausmane
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
If Saif is innocent, he knows how to appear extremely guilty. A terrible liar or the worst truth-teller.
@far-flung-one
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Gross
@Outrageous86
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
If you have never been blacked out drunk, you won’t understand. But you can be standing up, walking and talking and be in a black out and not remember a single thing. Alcohol specifically & mixing it with substances is deadly. I feel deeply for all parties involved when this is the case because people talking, or even being intimate with the person in the blackout are under the assumption that they are completely with it. But you’re not at all. 😣
@peytonwyndham5765
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
I wonder who helped him pay for his defense attorney? They mentioned it was undisclosed donor. Who would donate to a simple immigrant neuroscience student on full ride to Yale?
@canyousmellelonsmusk
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
bro is sus lel
@ec-kj4yp
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
His entire description of that night is beyond odd. Her being so sick, and then his gf calling and they spoke for hours while the other girl was just….somewhere else in the house? Don't believe him for one second.
@nicole-mq2dk
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
"unrealistic stands of consent" thats a wild thing to say
@modular182
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Hold on…. If I get black out drunk and punch a cop I'm still prosecuted for assault on a police officer. But if a woman gets black out drunk, flirts with and sleeps with a guy it's considered rape? Women scream about "The Patriarchy" and that men hold all the power. All it takes is one accusation of rape from them to ruin a man's life.
@sarahlorain
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
It’s really easy not to sleep with people if you or your “new” partner are drunk. That’s it.
@SikanderG
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
People almost never make false allegations of sexual assault. It's much more likely that Saif is guilty and is lying than that that woman just made up a lie to get a random guy into trouble.
@Cr4zyWolfgang
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Also this guy appears neurodivergent, but society lacks nuance and attacks him for his different social/cognitive style regardless of the facts or whether he actually did it.
@black_horse_lover2655
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Dang bro. Why you got me jumpscared in the first few seconds by that mans CREEPY ah eyes?????? 😭😭
@Cr4zyWolfgang
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Average looking guys can't go anywhere near women these days because they will accuse them of something heinous in a moment of regret.
@laurenmorich
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
That kid is a straight up sociopath. I don't think he's sexually attracted to males, but definitely gives off the "feeds off power" vibes. Would hate to be in the same room let alone with alcohol with that weirdo. Woof.
@DJPhillthy
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
THANKS A LOT OBAMA
@allarin1868
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
That’s so disgusting of him to start and then keep escalating after she had already thrown up!
@hortanokilli7608
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
100% a sociopath.
@pixelpixey
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
He’s sooooooo guilty. He does a fake, sympathetic voice while telling the story of the assault but when he talks to someone to let him into the building he speaks in his normal voice. Giant red flag 🚩
@Bretski126
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Isn’t it funny how guilty people are so overly verbose in their explanations?
@Bretski126
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Fascinating. Love Theroux’s work.
@kikimab
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
I was date-raped at Yale in 1996. I knew of other ones. Yale police and admin are 100% complicit in covering up sexual assaults. They victim-blame and do the whole “he said, she said” until you give up. I didn’t bother reporting it bc I knew how I’d be treated – I was asking for it.
@evermournn
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
"She was just enjoying herself" as she's puking. Get real.
@blainemcdowell
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
I cant beleive that Norm Pattis was the lawyer in this case. As if defending Alex Jones for his claims about the Sandy Hook students wasn't bad enough now he's helping rapist get off.
@PierroLouw
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Louis never had to call him a liar. He simply guided the conversation with carefully chosen questions until the contradictions in his own words became undeniable. It was watching someone dismantle their own credibility. What he failed to understand is that true intelligence doesn't win by arguing.
@reganmacey
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
How is a KID subosed to know when another person has had too much to drink ,come on man!!!!
@amyonthelam
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
44:52 he is so off putting – I feel so bad for Louis having to talk to him
@Weeeest246
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Fact bro still wanted to get it on after she threw up was red flag numero uno
@BlankBlank-k6s
August 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm
I don’t think anyone ever has had a one night stand, let the girl sleep over. And then proceeded to sleep on the couch. To me this seems as if he knew he was in the wrong and didn’t want to be near the situation at all.
I would just say I’ve never been with a girl for a one night stand and had her sleep over and not slept in the same bed as her. I think the prosecution did a awful job with this case
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