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A 7th grade girl in Missouri, described as a special education student, reported that she had been raped and was bullied by school officials to recant on the whole thing. Now the school district is calling a subsequent lawsuit over the matter ‘frivolous’ and claiming that the girl failed to protect herself.
And yes, it gets worse:
Following instructions from the school, the girl wrote an apology to the boy she accused of raping her and had to personally give it to him, according to the lawsuit. She was then expelled for the remainder of the 2008-09 school year. The school also told "juvenile authorities" that she filed a false report.
The girl returned to the middle school for the 2009-10 school year and tried to avoid the boy, according to the lawsuit. It didn’t work. She was sexually assaulted again but didn’t tell anyone because she was afraid of being expelled again, her lawyers wrote in the lawsuit. She was allegedly raped a second time Feb. 16, 2010.
School officials were notified of the incident and allegedly doubted the girl’s claim, saying they’d "already been through this," according to the lawsuit. The girl was also examined and found to have been sexually assaulted. However, she was suspended from school for "disrespectful conduct" and "public display of affection," her lawyers wrote in the lawsuit.
As Drum notes, there’s two sides to every story. But the boy pleaded guilty in court to unspecified charges. Again, there’s no telling what actually happened without more details (and hopefully the lawsuit brings those details to the surface) and a guilty plea isn’t the same thing as actual guilt, but it sure doesn’t look like the school did the right thing in this case no matter how you spin it.
Intimidating and then expelling a girl for reporting sexual assault is just cruel. Yes, people do lie about these things, and yes we should always err on the side of caution, but caution goes both ways and ought to apply just as much to alleged victims. This looks like nothing so much as retaliation on the part of the school district. The question is: why?
In February 2010, the boy allegedly forcibly raped the girl again, this time in the back of the school library. While school officials allegedly expressed skepticism of the girl, her mother took her to the Child Advocacy Center and an exam showed a sexual assault had occurred. DNA in semen found on the girl matched the DNA of the boy she accused, the suit says
http://www.news-leader.com/article/2...2/1002/SPORTS/
School board needs a Attitude adjustment they are a complete joke blaming the victim ?