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A student in Charlotte, North Carolina, who claims she was sexually assaulted in her high school bathroom reported it to an assistant principal and then the police. She sat for a 45-minute police interview, recounting the incident in which, she says, a fellow student put his hands down her pants and up her shirt without her consent.
The police charged him with two counts of sexual battery.
The school suspended her.
Despite fierce criticism and protests, the Hawthorne Academy of Health Sciences has refused to back down from its decision to discipline the 15-year-old girlstunning her and her mother.
Schools teach your kids, You see something, you say something. If you feel threatened, you say something, her mother told The Daily Beast this week. And in this case my daughter did, and it seems that the school system has failed her.
The girl, a sophomore at the academy who asked to remain anonymous, told The Daily Beast the boy had been harassing her for weeks, following her into the bathroom and groping her without her consent. The student says she did not report it until she attended a Title IX assembly in late August or early September, where administrators encouraged students to come forward about instances of abuse. She had hesitated before, she said, because she was afraid no one would believe her.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hawthorne-academy-student-reported-a-sexual-assault-and-was-suspended?ref=home
XanaDUer2
(10,663 posts)albacore
(2,398 posts)Topic of women raped and not being believed. Great acting, great writing...
Duppers
(28,120 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,013 posts)...a finding that no assault occurred, the problem is their investigative measures.
The kid admitted he did it, at least from what the mother says.
Also, a red flag is the notion that what the police say has no bearing on the school's investigation. That's just idiotic, where a crime on school property has occurred.
2naSalit
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Celerity
(43,349 posts)What the fuckery!
Insane.
Blame the victim taken to new lows.
keithbvadu2
(36,793 posts)Any special well-connected relatives for the 'boy'?
Another school blaming the victim to avoid scandal for the school?
intheflow
(28,466 posts)Boy comes from money/family of influence.
Jilly_in_VA
(9,966 posts)My initial thought...was he a Murdaugh?...then I remembered it was NC. So maybe he was a Burr. /s