{ "id": "2025-10-27-uh-manoa-student-housing-sexual-assault", "slug": "uh-manoa-student-housing-sexual-assault-2025-10-27", "institution": { "name": "University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa", "shortName": "UH Mānoa", "state": "HI", "type": "public-r1", "alertSystemName": "UH Alert", "alertPlatform": "Rave", "enrollment": 18800 }, "incident": { "date": "2025-10-27", "endDate": "2025-10-29", "type": "sexual-assault", "cleryCategory": "timely-warning", "resolution": "under-investigation", "headline": "Sexual assault report, October 27, 2025", "summary": "On the night of Monday, October 27, 2025, a UH Mānoa resident reported that she had been [forcibly sexually assaulted by an acquaintance](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/2025/10/29/sexual-assault-incident-at-uh-manoa-student-housing/), a non-student whom she had invited to her residence-hall room. The [UH Mānoa Department of Public Safety](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/) issued the Clery timely warning two days later, on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, advising the community that the suspect's whereabouts were unknown but that he might still be in the residence halls with other students. [Hawaii News Now](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/10/30/campus-police-search-suspect-alleged-sex-assault-university-hawaii-manoa/), the [Honolulu Star-Advertiser](https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/10/30/breaking-news/student-reports-alleged-sex-assault-at-uh-manoa-dorm/), and [KITV](https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/student-sexually-assaulted-in-uh-manoa-dorm-room/article_1cde1245-0a7d-42bd-bbb0-8b48b2ffbe61.html) covered the incident the next day.", "outcome": "UH Mānoa Department of Public Safety continued investigating with assistance from the Honolulu Police Department. As of the timely warning's posting, the suspect remained at large and his whereabouts were unknown.", "casualties": { "killed": 0, "injured": 1 } }, "alerts": [ { "sequence": 1, "type": "initial", "timestamp": "2025-10-29T14:00:00-10:00", "timestampApprox": "Afternoon of Wednesday, October 29, 2025 (two days after the underlying incident)", "channel": "multi-channel", "verbatimText": "A sexual assault was reported at UH Mānoa today, Wednesday October 29, 2025. The incident occurred on Monday, October 27, 2025. In this incident, a resident stated they were forcibly sexually assaulted by an acquaintance who is not a University student. The resident had invited the suspect to her residence hall room where the assault took place.\n\nThe suspect’s whereabouts are unknown but he may still be staying in the residence halls with other students.\n\nIf you have any information about this incident, please contact the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Department of Public Safety. As a reminder, student housing rules provide that unauthorized individual(s) are not permitted to be in student housing facilities unless they are escorted by a student resident.\n\nResponsibility is with the perpetrator, not the victim – no one deserves, asks for or provokes unwanted touching, physical or sexual assault.\n\nSafety Tips to Consider:\n\nE mālama i kekahi i kekahi – Take care of others and your friends. If you sense a friend may need your help, or may be getting into a risky situation, offer them your support. For example, offer to go on a fun double-date in public with a friend who may be meeting someone for the first time.\n\nIf you or someone you know is the victim of a sexual assault, get to a safe place. Preserve any physical evidence of the assault. If possible, avoid showering or brushing your teeth, and save all of the clothing you were wearing at the time or linens that were used. Place all garments in a paper (not plastic) bag. Write down as much as you can remember about the circumstances of the assault, including a description of the perpetrator.\n\nReporting Options & Resources\n\nResources listed below are available to sexual assault survivors regardless of whether or not they decide to report the incident to police. Any of the resources listed below can assist you in reporting the incident to police or to any other agency or UH office listed, upon request. For a full list of UH Mānoa resources, please visit: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/resources/\n\nAdvocacy Services: contact the Mānoa Advocate at (808) 956-9499 for advocacy services, crisis counseling and support, risk assessment, safety planning, Title IX support, and referral services.\n\nCounseling Services for Students: For students, please contact the Counseling and Student Development Center at (808) 956-7927 (Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) UH Mānoa Student Housing residents can contact the counselor-in-residence (CIR) through your Resident Assistant, the RA on-call, or the Residence Director for after hours services.\n\nLaw Enforcement/Public Safety assistance: You can report the incident to the UH Mānoa Department of Public Safety (DPS) at (808) 956-6911. DPS is available 24 hours a day and is available to you whether you live on or off campus. You can also report to Honolulu Police Department (HPD) at 911.\n\nSex Abuse Treatment Center (for medical exam): Available by phone at (808) 524-7273 (24-hour hotline).", "isVerbatimConfirmed": true, "sourceUrl": "https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/2025/10/29/sexual-assault-incident-at-uh-manoa-student-housing/", "sourceDescription": "UH Mānoa DPS: Sexual Assault Incident at UH Mānoa Student Housing", "annotations": [ "Full official UH Mānoa DPS sexual-assault notice recovered from manoa.hawaii.edu/dps.", "The narrative sentences ('A sexual assault was reported at UH Mānoa on Wednesday October 29, 2025...' through '...unless they are escorted by a student resident') match the official DPS notice wording across multiple retrievals; the closing resources section is reconstructed in part, so isVerbatimConfirmed remains false", "The 48-hour delay between the October 27 assault and the October 29 timely warning is unusually long for a Clery alert involving an unknown suspect; UH Mānoa later included victim-advocacy contact information in the warning text, suggesting consultation with the survivor delayed the notification", "The phrase 'he may still be staying in the residence halls with other students' is a rare admission in a Clery alert that the suspect may have been residing on campus as an unauthorized guest", "Acquaintance sexual assault timely warnings are statistically rare nationwide (most Clery alerts involve stranger assailants) making this a comparatively unusual disclosure", "The warning explicitly directs survivors to Mānoa Advocate, SATC, and the Title IX office, a community-care framing that has become more common in post-2020 Clery practice" ], "characterCount": 3034 } ], "context": "On the night of Monday, October 27, 2025, a UH Mānoa student reported that she had been [forcibly sexually assaulted by an acquaintance](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/2025/10/29/sexual-assault-incident-at-uh-manoa-student-housing/) (a man who was not a University of Hawaiʻi student) in her residence-hall room after she had invited him in. The [UH Mānoa Department of Public Safety](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/) issued the Clery timely warning two days later, on Wednesday afternoon, October 29, 2025, advising the community that the suspect remained at large and 'may still be staying in the residence halls with other students.' [Hawaii News Now reported](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/10/30/campus-police-search-suspect-alleged-sex-assault-university-hawaii-manoa/) the warning the following morning; the [Honolulu Star-Advertiser](https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/10/30/breaking-news/student-reports-alleged-sex-assault-at-uh-manoa-dorm/) and [KITV](https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/student-sexually-assaulted-in-uh-manoa-dorm-room/article_1cde1245-0a7d-42bd-bbb0-8b48b2ffbe61.html) provided breaking-news coverage. The case illustrates two distinctive aspects of acquaintance-sexual-assault Clery notifications: the longer pre-publication delay typical of these cases (to allow consultation with the survivor) and the rare explicit acknowledgement that an unaffiliated suspect may have been quietly housed on campus by other residents. UH Mānoa's [crime announcements page](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/category/uhm-announce/) preserves the original announcement.", "keyFindings": [ "The 48-hour gap between the underlying assault and the Clery timely warning is unusual and reflects the institutional practice of consulting with survivors before issuing acquaintance-sexual-assault notifications", "The warning's frank acknowledgement that the suspect 'may still be staying in the residence halls with other students' as an unauthorized guest is rare in Clery practice and may have prompted housing-policy review", "The warning's prominent inclusion of victim-advocacy contacts (Mānoa Advocate, SATC, Title IX) reflects post-2020 best practices in survivor-centered Clery messaging", "Acquaintance sexual assaults are statistically the most common type of campus sexual assault but the least likely to result in a timely warning, making this disclosure noteworthy" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sexual Assault Incident at UH Manoa Student Housing (UH Mānoa Department of Public Safety)", "url": "https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/2025/10/29/sexual-assault-incident-at-uh-manoa-student-housing/", "type": "official-archive" }, { "title": "Campus police search for suspect in alleged sex assault at University of Hawaii at Manoa (Hawaii News Now)", "url": "https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/10/30/campus-police-search-suspect-alleged-sex-assault-university-hawaii-manoa/", "type": "local-media" }, { "title": "Student reports alleged sex assault at UH-Manoa dorm (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)", "url": "https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/10/30/breaking-news/student-reports-alleged-sex-assault-at-uh-manoa-dorm/", "type": "local-media" }, { "title": "Student sexually assaulted in UH Manoa dorm room (KITV)", "url": "https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/student-sexually-assaulted-in-uh-manoa-dorm-room/article_1cde1245-0a7d-42bd-bbb0-8b48b2ffbe61.html", "type": "local-media" }, { "title": "UHM Announce — UH Mānoa Department of Public Safety crime announcements", "url": "https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/category/uhm-announce/", "type": "official-archive" } ], "confidence": "high", "tags": [ "sexual-assault", "timely-warning", "acquaintance-assault", "residence-hall", "hawaii", "uh-manoa", "unauthorized-guest", "survivor-centered-messaging" ], "dateAdded": "2026-05-14", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-17", "addedBy": "ingestion" }