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A University of Georgia professor says a former student destroyed his career by falsely accusing him of sexual abuse in essays she published on Buzzfeed and Medium, new court papers show.

Playwright and associate theater professor John Patrick Bray says he and Sonja Petrovic had a brief texting fling in the summer of 2016 after she had already graduated from the University of Georgia in the fall of 2015, according to his Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit from Tuesday.

On two weekends in July 2016, Bray visited Petrovic in New York and they “engaged in mutually flirtatious and amorous behavior” which led to them beginning an “exclusively online and SMS message romantic relationship” that lasted from August to September, the court papers claim

On Sept. 12, Bray told Petrovic he wanted to end things as he and his wife were going to work on their marriage, the court documents say.

Then in November, Petrovic, who now lives in Brooklyn, started writing essays under the alias queerlybeloved about the alleged abuse she suffered, the court papers claim.

But Bray says the allegations are “unfounded,” according to the suit.

In the Medium post, Petrovic claimed that she visited Bray and she had to drive him home after he got drunk one night. She alleged that they both fell asleep on separate couches and in the morning he came to her couch and tried to put his hands down her pants and kissed and groped her, despite her protests.

Petrovic claimed a week before the alleged assault they had “a series of (too) personal conversations,” where he dragged out of her that she had a crush on him. She said, “I made my boundaries clear, yet he kept on persisting, and little by little, I gave in.”

As a result of Petrovic’s claims, the university demoted Bray, theater companies canceled productions of his plays and he lost his membership with various prestigious drama societies, the court papers allege.

Bray is seeking at least $100,000 in damages. He also wants Petrovic to remove from online her allegations against him.

Petrovic did not immediately return a request for comment.

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