A Burnsville woman cannot hold Iowa State University responsible for her alleged fraternity house rape, but the school may have failed to protect her from peer retaliation after the fact, a judge ruled Friday.

The woman was a sorority pledge in January 2015 when she reported to the school and police that a fraternity member had raped her. A hospital rape kit supported her claims but wasn’t tested for more than a year, according to a lawsuit against the university in U.S. District Court in Iowa.

In the meantime, the school temporarily shut down the frat house and suspended the accused man.

Greek community members, including those at the accuser’s sorority, defended the man and worked together to ostracize the woman, according to her complaint. They taunted her as “that girl that got raped” and warned others to stay away or “she’ll call the cops and claim rape.”

The woman reported the retaliation to the school’s Greek Life authorities but says they took no action.

The school also denied her counseling and academic help afterward when she struggled with her classes, the complaint alleges. She returned to school in fall 2015 but dropped out after failing all but one class.

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The lawsuit alleged that Iowa State violated the Title IX federal education law prohibiting gender discrimination by enabling a culture of alcohol and sexual violence within its Greek community.

But U.S. Magistrate Judge Ross Walters said the accuser failed to make a plausible case that “previous complaints of sexual assault at the fraternity gave the University actual knowledge that students faced a substantial risk of sexual assault there.”

Responding to the university’s request to throw out the lawsuit, Walters on Friday dismissed part of it but allowed the case to continue where it concerns Iowa State’s actions after the woman made the report.

The judge wrote that the complaint includes enough facts for a plausible claim that “fraternity and sorority student peers retaliated against her for reporting the sexual assault, appropriate University officials were aware of the retaliation, but made little or no effort to respond to it.”