Friday, May 9, 2014

Did This School Cover Up Sexual Assault Because The Perpetrators Were Related To Board Members?


http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/05/09/3436066/west-virginia-rape-school-coverup/

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Two West Virginia boys repeatedly sexually assaulted girls at their school, but school administrators helped them to cover up the assault by punishing their victims and obstructing a law enforcement investigation, according to an injunction filed this week in a West Virginia court by the state’s Attorney General and its Human Rights Commission. Both boys are relatives of members of the school board there.
“Multiple” girls at Burch Middle School in Mingo County were “subjected to repeated incidents of sexual abuse and/or sexual assault by two fellow male students,” the injunction alleges, “and then threatened with discipline and/or retaliated against by members of the Burch Middle School administration when each pursued punishment for the offenders.” The assaults, which happened in school, on field trips, and on the bus, started in 2012, but the latest assault was just over two weeks ago, on April 21.
Five adults at the school, along with the entire Mingo County Board of Education, are part of the Attorney General’s complaint. They include the Principal, Vice Principal, Superintendent, athletic coach, and even the guidance counselor. The two boys’ parents are also both part of the complaint, though none are named to protect the identities of the boys, who now in eighth grade and are under 18.
things like this show the weak minded Americans that have no m oral compass when it comes to their own well being they allow a few to control their lives, much like what is happening now a few billionaires have bought the rights to your life and some are letting them take the wheel, money and power corrupts, absolute money and power corrupt absolutely.
the republicans have been bandying "SLAVE" around truly out of context for who they suggest are the slaves of 21st century, i suggest it's them they are selling out their constituents, their country their "PRINCIPLES" formerly known as "VALUES" which need to be sold off shore and kept there. they are selling out for money and power so they can do to us what their bribers are doing to them downgrading any sense of humanity all for some one above them and richer than them those the hold as deities.
all the while instilling the perceived devalue of our women and girls our sisters and daughters and future mothers, it's call collateral damage of the war against women.