"Why would you consensually engage in sex and then run and tell a teacher
that you'd been forced?!?!"................The problem on this one is that here
in the UK it happens a lot, and I mean A LOT.
I went through a year of abuse of that nature by a boy of the same age as
me. Because of all the times girls cry r*pe over here, the medical
evidence they found on me as a result of what he did wasn't enough for the CPS
to gaurentee a conviction in crown court, so he was charge with 2 multiple sex
offences, got sent to magistrates to enter a plee, then it was heard in crown
court, but there wasn't enough evidence for it to go to trial.
The problem is girls sleep with any tom, dick or harry; get upset because
all the lad wants is a one night stand, and for revenge the girl starts accusing
the guy of forcing her. How someone could be that sick to do a thing
like that I don't know, but because of the actions of a handfull of girls that
do make false accusations, it's the thousands of genuine cases like mine who
have to suffer with never seeing justice brought to our attackers because of
them.
It's not right, but unfortunately there's nothing anyone can do to change
it so we all have to get on with it.
Love Smurf xxx
In a message dated 13/04/2005 22:51:50 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Here's a
longer story from the NY times - this is absolutely insane.
First they say
that they watched the tape and there was "no evidence of
coercion" - yet
the girl ran scared and told a teacher right away! Why
would you
consensually engage in sex and then run and tell a teacher
that you'd been
forced!?!?!? Ridiculous. And then they say they didn't
want the media
involved just because it might cause the girl further
mental anguish!?!?!?
The nerve!
Principal Fired for Failing to Report Sex Assault
Case
By JAMES DAO
Published: April 13, 2005
A high school
principal in Columbus, Ohio, has been fired and three
assistant principals
suspended without pay because they failed to notify
the police last month
about accusations that a 16-year-old
special-education student had been
sexually assaulted in the school
auditorium by a group of boys, one of whom
videotaped the incident,
school officials said yesterday.
The
principal and her assistants not only failed to report the incident
but
also urged the girl's father to avoid calling the police out of
concerns
that reporters would become aware of the assault, according to
statements
given to school investigators.
The police are investigating four
teenagers in connection with the
incident, a spokeswoman for the Columbus
police, Sherry Mercurio, said
yesterday, but no charges have been filed.
"It's an alleged assault that we're looking into," Ms. Mercurio said.
A spokesman for the school district declined to say whether the
boys,
whose names were not released, had been suspended. The boys, all
younger
than 18, were not at school yesterday, he said.
One of the
three assistant principals, Richard Watson, said he had found
the videotape
and then viewed it with other administrators. Their
conclusion, they told
investigators, was that there had been no
coercion.
The district
released statements this week from an inquiry that
described a chaotic,
vacillating response to the girl's complaint and an
overarching concern
about the tape by the top administrators at the
835-student building,
Mifflin High School, on the northeastern side of
the city. The district's
investigation into the incident, which occurred
on the afternoon of March
9, was first reported by The Columbus
Dispatch.
One witness's
statement said a boy pulled the girl onto the auditorium
stage, ordered her
to be quiet, pushed her to her knees and forced her
to perform oral sex on
him.
"If you scream, I'll have all my boys punch you," the boy told
her and
then hit her in the face, causing her mouth to bleed, a student
told the
investigators.
The girl told a special-education teacher
minutes after the incident
that she had been forced to have oral sex with
two boys behind a curtain
on the stage while at least two others watched.
She said the boys
stopped only after someone arrived in the auditorium and
scared them
off.
The girl, who has a speech defect, "just kept
saying she was scared,"
the special-education teacher told the
investigators.
Another special-education teacher, Lisa Upshaw, told
the investigators
that administrators did not call the girl's father
immediately after
learning about the attack.
When Mrs. Upshaw took
it upon herself to call the father, Mr. Watson
urged him not to come pick
up his daughter until after the end of the
school day "to avoid a
confrontation with the suspects," Mrs. Upshaw
told the investigators.
When the father arrived, he asked whether the school administration
was
going to call the police, Mrs. Upshaw said in her statement. "Mr.
Watson
said, 'No, we don't want to do that. We don't want the police,' "
she
told the investigators.
The father then stepped into the
hallway and called the police on his
cellphone.
Mr. Watson and
other administrators told investigators that the
principal, Regina B.
Crenshaw, had also advised the father to avoid
calling the police, the
investigation report says. Mrs. Crenshaw
recommended that the father return
the next morning and report the
incident to a police officer who was
usually stationed at the school but
who was not there on March 9, the
report added.
"Do not call the police; let our officer handle it
tomorrow, and you
will be happy with the results," Mr. Watson said Mrs.
Crenshaw told the
father, the investigation report says.
Mrs.
Crenshaw then saw the father out of the school and left for the
day,
several administrators said in their statements. That evening, the
father
returned with the police, who inspected the auditorium. After
Mrs. Crenshaw
learned that the police had begun an investigation, she
notified her
superiors about the incident, according to the
investigation report.
Mrs. Crenshaw, who had worked for the district since 1980 and had
been
the principal at Mifflin for a year, did not return calls to her
home.
Mr. Watson declined to comment.
In his statement to
investigators, Mr. Watson said he had told the
father not to call 911 out
of concerns that the police dispatcher's
radio calls would be picked up by
television news reporters, which might
cause the girl "further mental
trauma." But he said he did not try to
dissuade the father from calling the
police on a nonemergency line.
Mr. Watson and two other assistant
principals, Suzie Retterer-Helfrich
and Vincent D. Clarno, were suspended
without pay. They will be
reassigned when they return to work on Tuesday, a
spokesman for the
school system, Andrew Marcelain, said.
"You
failed to demonstrate the leadership required of a Columbus Public
Schools
building administrator by your evident disregard for the
victim's safety
and lack of sensitivity to both the victim and parent,"
Superintendent Gene
T. Harris wrote in letter to the assistant
principals notifying them of
their suspensions.
Ms. Retterer-Helfrich said in an interview
yesterday that she was not
involved in the deliberations over how to handle
the girl's complaint
because she had been administering a test at the
time.
Mr. Clarno could not be reached.
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