Former Alabama grad student claims Ivy League professor groped her
A former graduate student at the University of South Alabama is accusing an Ivy League professor of groping several times.
The alleged victim, who was not named but was identified as a former Mobile resident who attended USA’s College of Medicine, claimed Mohammad Ibrahim, an assistant professor, grabbed her breasts twice in a Brown University lab, NBC News reported.
Ibrahim pleaded not guilty to second-degree sexual abuse in a Providence, Rhode Island, courtroom.
He was placed on administrative leave, a Brown University spokesman told NBC News.
The ex-USA grad student, who was a Ph.D. student at Brown and worked in the same lab as Ibrahim, applied for a restraining order against him several months ago, according to the network.
She said she became friends with Ibrahim online in 2020 and met him for the first time in 2021, when she lived in Mobile while attending USA.
The student also claimed Ibrahim first groped her while she attended the Alabama university, although it was unclear whether she filed a police report with Alabama authorities.