She also started an online petition, demanding the school protect victims of sexual assault from being the subjects of Honor Code investigations

On Monday, she filed a complaint with the federal education office, claiming BYU has violated Title IX sex discrimination rules

Students at the school are expected to follow an 'honor code' which bans being in the bedroom of the opposite sex, drinking and doing drugs

A student at Brigham Young University has filed a criminal complaint against the Mormon-run school, saying she was investigated for so-called 'honor code' violations after she reported being raped to police.

Madi Barney, 20, says she was raped by 39-year-old Nasiru Seidu during a date at her off-campus apartment last September. Seidu, who is not a student, reportedly lied about his age (he claimed he was 26), name and the fact that he was married.

After the incident, Barney says she hesitated to report the rape, fearing that the school would find out and it would ruin her reputation at the conservative institution.

But when she learned that her attacker had lied about his identity, she became convinced that the rape was premeditated and decided to file a police report. Soon after, a cop turned her case file over to the school without her permission and her fears were realized.

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Brigham Young University student Madi Barney (pictured) has filed a complaint against the school, claiming they started investigating her for an honor code violation after she reported being raped to the local police

Three months later, the undergraduate says she got a letter from a school official, informing her that she was being investigated for breaking the school's stringent rules.

'We have received information that you have been a victim of behavior that is addressed in the university Sexual Misconduct Policy. We have also received information that you have engaged in behavior that violates the BYU Honor Code. I would like to meet with you and provide you with the information that we have received and give you an opportunity to respond,' the message from a BYU Title IX coordinator read.

Nasiru Seidu, 39 (pictured), has been charged with sexual assault in the alleged rape of Barney

Run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, BYU students are expected to live a 'chaste and virtuous life'. The honor code includes rules against being in the bedroom of a member of the opposite sex, using 'unclean' language, and imbibing alcohol or even coffee.

Since her alleged attacker is being prosecuted for sexual assault, Barney's lawyer advised her not to respond to the Honor Code Office's request for an interview.

But that caused even more problems for Barney, who says the school has now banned her from enrolling in new classes.

She also says that professors have not been accommodating to her in the past months as she has struggled to balance both school and her legal case. This has caused her to struggle academically in a few classes, and she says the school has refused to let her retroactively drop these courses.

'They're telling me that they can't prove that a rape occurred,' Barney told the Huffington Post.

So on Monday, Barney filed a complaint with the federal education office against BYU, claiming the school has violated Title IX by failing to aide her as a victim of sexual assault.

Title IX is a civil rights act which demands that all schools who receive federal funding bar sexual discrimination on their campuses.

Schools that are found to have violated Title IX usually reach a settlement and must prove they are working to comply with the law.

In addition to the complaint, Barney has also started an online petition demanding that the school shield victims of sexual assault from being the targets of Honor Code investigations.

Run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, BYU students (campus pictured) are expected to live a 'chaste and virtuous life'. The honor code includes rules against being in the bedroom of a member of the opposite sex, using 'unclean' language, and imbibing alcohol or even coffee

As of Wednesday morning, that online petition had reached over 88,000 signatures. Supporters of the petition have planned a protest on campus for Wednesday, to deliver the petition to university President Kevin Worthen, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

At this point, Barney says she just wants to transfer to another school, and having the bad grades she incurred in the aftermath of the rape nixed from her record would improve her GPA, hypothetically making it easier to gain acceptance into another college of equal rank.

In response to Barney's complaints, the school has pledged to review it's protocols for dealing with sexual assault on campus.

In a statement issued on Thursday, President Worthen admitted there is an 'inherent tension' between the school's Honor Code and Title IX.

'A victim of a sexual assault will never be referred to the Honor Code Office for being a victim of sexual assault,' Worthen said. 'Sometimes in the course of an investigation, facts come to light that a victim has engaged in prior Honor Code violations.'

Worthen will be overseeing the review of sexual assault policies.

Meanwhile, the Provo cop who leaked Barney's case file to the school is no longer facing charges of witness retaliation.

Utah County Deputy Sheriff Edwin Randolph, a former women's track coach at the school, was originally hit with the charges after prosecutors claimed he turned the documents over to the school in hopes of hurting Barney.

At the time, prosecutors argued that Randolph and Barney's alleged attacker were friends and members of the same Ghanian community in the area.

But Randolph said those allegations were false and that he only turned the documents over because he thought it would propel the school to start investigating male athletes for honor code violations.