George H. Hardy
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Name
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George H. Hardy
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Given Name
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George H.
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Family Name
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Hardy
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Occupation
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University of Virginia student
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Description
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George H. Hardy was a University of Virginia student and rapist. University of Virginia’s Faculty Minutes, April 24, 1850, records that University of Virginia student George H. Hardy, along with students Armistead C. Eliason and James E. Montandon, violently raped a young girl described as a “small negro girl.” Their violent rape of a child was witnessed and interrupted by University of Virginia students Daniel B. Conrad, John B. Eastham, and Richard Venable Gaines, who reported the crime to the Chairman of the Faculty. Hardy and fellow perpetrators Eliason and Montandon fled and escaped the “Civil Authority” in Charlottesville. The Board of Visitors Minutes, June 28, 1850, records that they were expelled from the University.
