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Knowingly sending anyone into a situation where they may be sexually assaulted in order to catch a rapist in the act is reprehensible. When the bait is a special needs teenage girl, its criminal.
https://www.change.org/p/madison-county-school-board-fire-jeanne-dunaway-and-ronnie-blair-and-initiate-legal-and-criminal-investigation-of-school-administration-for-the-sparkman-middle-school-rape-bait-incident-of-2010?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=153859&alert_id=dkotXvlpHW_ogwYXw4cJ2s%2BL3ZUY2OXsKd8fs7fvKUqhevE%2B2wdJt0%3D
WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)and I hope they have to pay her a lot of money and that she gets the therapy that she needs.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Since when do police use minors to entice predators?
This is soooo wrong on so many levels.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Still almost beyond belief that such a horror could take place in our public schools!
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)The other's say that she did not discuss any plan with them.
She had been told that the only way they would be able to discipline the boy would be to catch him in the act. That is a far cry from setting somebody up.
But that they continue to blame the girl for choosing to go in the bathroom when she was clearly encouraged and pressured into doing it by the teacher's aide is reprehensible.
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/10/what_happened_in_rape_of_a_14-.html#incart_most-read
Also, I just tried to sign but the petition is closed.
John1956PA
(2,654 posts)Here are excerpts from the Post-Gazette story:
Suit charges Upper St. Clair officials made rape victim 'bait'
July 30, 2010 12:00 AM
By Paula Reed Ward Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A former Upper St. Clair High School student who already claimed she had been raped once was raped again on school property after school officials used her as bait in a failed attempt to catch students they believed were having sex in the building, her attorneys claim.
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The girl's attorneys contend that two girls were raped in the stairwell that afternoon, including their client.
"Ghilani's 'sting operation,' which prevented von Waldow from placing Jane Doe on her bus and out of harm's way so that she could be used as bait, resulted in her being violently raped. Ghilani and the school district acted in utter disregard of her welfare."
David J. Barton, the attorney representing the student, called Mr. Ghilani's attempt at a sting "ill-conceived."
"As a parent, I'm offended that a high school principal would use anybody's daughter as bait."
Among the claims by the girl and her parents are that school officials failed to act when they knew the boy was a threat.
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I thought maybe Alabama was an aberration but... just