Sanction for Assault?

[suedonim]

This relates to uni rather than school but I reckon Mnetters will have an opinion anyway! My 18yo dd has just had a nasty experience at uni. She was standing chatting with some others in her uni kitchen when all of a sudden, an unknown man leapt in through the first floor window. He then proceeded to viciously punch one of her friends until he was on the floor and then kicked him repeatedly, so hard that the assailant's shoes flew off.

To cut a long story short(ish) Security noticed the hubbub on their CCTV and managed to catch the bloke and hand him over to the police. He's been charged with assault, which he has admitted. It turns out that he is in fact another student, living on the same campus as dd and the victim. DD and the others are not happy about this bloke still being around the place and would like the uni to throw him out. Do you think that's a reasonable sanction or should he be given a second chance?

The latest is that the wardens are now 'reconsidering' their position re A's suspended fine so that's a good thing. Ds2 is meeting the head of Student Support today and also the chap in charge of security on campus, an ex-policeman, so I hope it can all be laid to rest satisfactorily. Poor dd1 is sick of talking about it, she says!

Yes I can imagine that she is, all the processes that have to be gone through nowadays in case the perpetrator is treated "unfairly"

And I have to confess that, in Bad Mummy mode, I didn't phone dd last night because I didn't want to hear about again, either!

Don't blame you