Posted on 04/13/2005 8:08:09 AM PDT by Abathar
Police: Dozens Watch As Student Forced To Perform Sex Act Officials Say Student Videotaped Abuse
UPDATED: 8:32 am EST April 13, 2005
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Police say several students witnessed the sexual abuse of a girl at a Columbus high school.
A 16-year-old student with developmental delays said she was dragged into the auditorium of Mifflin High School, punched and forced to perform oral sex on at least two male students while more than a dozen other students were called in to watch.
One student reportedly videotaped the sex acts, WCMH-TV in Columbus reported.
A student witness reported hearing an attacker warn, "If you scream, I'll have my boys punch you."
The same witness said the girl then dropped to her knees after she was punched in the face.
Students scattered when help was called, officials said.
During the attack, one witness looked for a school security guard but could not find anyone, he told investigators.
"We went back to the auditorium; the victim was 'butt naked,"' the witness said, and someone "was on top of her."
The attackers then ran from the scene, and witnesses helped the girl get dressed before taking her to a security employee, who is not a police officer.
Mifflin High School officials who found her bleeding from the mouth March 9 did not call police, and an assistant principal cautioned the girl's father against calling 911 because the media might get involved, according to statements from school officials obtained by The Columbus Dispatch. But the girl's father insisted on calling police and contacted them later that afternoon.
Special education teacher Julie Calvario said the girl told her about the incident.
"(She said) she was scared and told him to stop, but he hit her in the head and told her to be quiet," Calvario said.
Even after administrators were alerted to the alleged criminal act, they did not call police, or the victim's father, WCMH reported.
More than an hour later, teacher Lisa Upshaw called the girl's father. Upshaw said that when the girl's father arrived, assistant principal Richard Watson would not call the police.
The girl's father demanded that school officials call the police.
"Mr. Watson said, 'No we don't want to do that, we don't want the police,"' Upshaw told the investigator.
In his statement, Watson said he told the father to "go ahead and call," but not to call 911 because the "news channel might tape his daughter and cause her further mental trauma."
Richard Watson is one of three assistant principals suspended for 10 days. Principal Regina Crenshaw will likely lose her job, WCMH reported.
The girl's father called police after Upshaw told him, "This is child abuse. She needs medical attention and this is wrong."
WCMH reported that Upshaw also told the girl's father that he needed to take the victim to the hospital and that she was a walking crime scene.
Administrators reportedly warned the father that if police were called, the news media would follow, WCMH reported.
Police said they now have the videotape and the investigation continues, although no charges have been filed so far.
>>Let me guess, Tukwila? Tacoma?<<
It was at Foster high school soccer field (Tukwila).
Well done!
There's at least 4 folks here who need an ass whoopin'.
I agree. They should publish the names of the attackers in the newspaper.
I would find out where they live and inform the neighbors that a violent sex offender lives next door.
It's not the America I grew up in either.
My advice to you ?
1. Develop a very close relationship with your kids - do things with them, participate in whatever they're doing. Show them that if they make good choices, you're in their corner and good things are more fun than things that get them into trouble.
2. Provide good, sensible and consistent discipline and don't take the easy route by giving in especially if "everyone else is doing it"
3. Don't worry about how popular they are (in fact, worry if they're very popular!) . One or two true friends is enough to see kids thru school; more is a bonus
4. Keep talking to them about everything, especially your values and expectations. Cultivate the habit of listening. Be very opinionated on many topics(sex, drugs, friends, lying, cheating etc etc) and give your reasons why. They're listening even if it sometimes seems like they're not.
5. Don't send them to ANY school that you have not personally checked out by spending time in classrooms, lunchrooms, bathrooms, gyms, and hallways. I know of quite a few tony private schools I'd not subject my kid to.
6. Keep them occupied with positive hobbies and encourage hanging-out with friends at your house. That way you get to know who might be causing trouble simply by casually listening to the conversation. Most troublemakers I know do not have constructive things to occupy their free time.
7. Don't encourage activities or things that are more appropriate for older kids. For example, your 8th grader does not need to wear a $500 dress to the 8th grade dance that would be more appropriate for the senior prom in high school.
8. And my favorite - homeschool. You get lots of time to influence your kids (don't you like how I waited to the end to sneak that in?)
Well, that should be good for a start. :)
It's worse than doublespeak or PC talk, it's Educationist jargon.
Designed to frustrate/shutdown responsibility to and communication with parents.
And we need School Choice.
Can't fire the idiot teachers - they're union doncha know?
(snicker)
Yeah...I never really looked at the itemized listing on my property tax bill...I couldn't believe how much went to the local school district.
And parents continue to dump their children into these government school cesspools.
Would surmising prison roots be too presumptive?
Mapblast doesn't bear that out.
Anybody from Columbus out there?
Thanks for your post - there are others here who have had very similiar experiences and we should know about these incidents.
yes, I was assuming it was an inner city school.
As well as every adult and every witness as an accessory to the crime. Either that or just let them spend a bit of quality time with a few Freepers ;)
We would ALL be EVIL if never corrected, never directed, never parented, never churched, never educated.
It is NOT a race issue.Do you remember the"Spur Posse"and the Billion Dollar Boys Club"?Not to mention the group of white jocks who broomstick raped the retarded girl in New Jersey a few years back.
The perps in this case might have been black as so might have been the victim.So put them away for a long time.Playing the race card here is only relevant if these kids were targeting white girls or on some kind of twisted "get the white girl"rampage which I somehow doubt.
It simply means she's retarded or slow. How much isn't mentioned. This is sickening.
Ah, homeschooling and Christian schooling looks better and better every day!
maybe, but evil nevertheless. how we got that way isn't really the point anymore.
Blacks are much crueler to EACH OTHER than they are to people from other races.In my very diverse city 80%of the murderers are black as are 80% of the victims.Most school fights are INTRA racial,many of these among Latino gang members.The white and Asain kids are pretty much ignored.
Of course,I live in California and this reality may not reflect the rest of the country.
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