Texas student reports rape and gets suspended for ‘public lewdness’
former Texas high school student has come forward with accusations that school officials suspended her for “public lewdness” after she reported that she had been raped in a band room.
In her first extensive interview, Rachel Bradshaw-Bean told NBC News that a boy had asked her to go into the band room at Henderson High School in East Texas on Dec. 6, 2010 while they were waiting for a Key Club meeting to begin after school. That’s when things turned violent and the boy raped her.
After crying and cleaning herself up in the bathroom, she went to an assistant band director to report the crime.
“He told me to work it out with the boy,” she recalled. “There’s no way I would do that. But I didn’t know what to think. I was 17.”
The next day, the news reached an assistant vice principal after Bradshaw-Bean and a friend told another assistant band director. The school sent Bradshaw-Bean to a health clinic, which found lacerations to the hymen and bleeding “consistent with information given per victim,” according to a medical report obtained by NBC News.
A day after forensic specialist Michael Jimerson interviewed Bradshaw-Bean, police called her parents to say that no criminal charges would be filed against the boy.
“They said the sex was consensual. I was so shocked,” Bradshaw-Bean’s mother pointed out to NBC News. “I thought, they are pushing this under the rug. She’s being treated this way because she’s a female. I looked at my husband and said, ‘Do they know women have the right to vote?’”
Jimerson, however, insisted that the case had a lack of evidence.
“We broke it down with her version of events and his,” he said. “Her claims could not be substantiated. At the end of the day, I just know that objectively, there was almost no chance of a conviction. As a prosecutor, I have to be vigilant about the cases I pursue.”
Jimerson added that Bradshaw-Bean had used language that “implied consensual sex instead of forcible rape,” although he could not produce an exact transcript of the remarks.
“I was reporting a rape,” Bradshaw-Bean argued. “It sounds like my words are getting twisted. If you have to twist someone’s words to make your case, then something’s not right.”
In the end, both Bradshaw-Bean and her suspected rapist were punished for “public lewdness” by being sent to a disciplinary school for 45 days. The school also declined to fulfill its legal obligation to launch its own internal investigation.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/23/texas-student-reports-rape-and-gets-suspended-for-public-lewdness/
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These "loved ones" who abandoned you are disgraceful.
I hope you have found new friends who really value you. 
No one can come out of that sort of experience without serious scars. 
I hope someone has helped you to cope with this.
It really sucks that survivors of these vicious attacks get treated in such a manner.
It's been nearly 50 years since I was last assaulted, and time does help heal. But as you say, it still hurts.
Especially if the assailant is a football player.
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