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.
Maybe not. The government has taxed both parents out of the home and we are now asking why won't children behave themselves.
Most of the problem is due to a lack of parents and the school unions creating parent unfriendly schools.
A girl called Glenn's show today, that went to this school 11 years ago, and stated things such as this were going on back then (such as forcing girls into boy's bathroom to do a clinton). Nothing was done then-these parents better step up to the plate sometime.
That's the first thing I thougt of, too. Here's another legacy of BJ Clinton.
Thanks for the link to Mifflin High School. Having viewed the school website, I'm going out on a nonpolitically correct limb and assume the race of the perps.
Crawling further out on that unpolitically correct limb, I will add: "nuff said."
Tell it like it is.
Love your blog!
The Ohio Department of Education has the entire school district on "Academic Watch" which means that they don't meet state educational standards. Go figure.
Full report card here:
http://www.ode.state.oh.us/reportcardfiles/2003-2004/DIST/043802.pdf
This is from their Feb 2005 newsletter
"Many ESL students celebrated Eid Adha on
thst January 20 and 21. This is an Islamic holiday
marking the day on which the prophet Ibrahim sac-
rificed his son to God. Muslims around the world
celebrate this holy day by making a pilgrimage to
the Hajj in the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Mus-
lims make this pilgrimage to ask Allah (God) to for-
give their sins. This is one of the Five Pillars of Is-
lam. Therefore, each Muslim must try to make the
pilgrimage at least once during his or her lifetime, if
they can afford it. Those people who are unable to
go celebrate the day by going to the Mosque. "
Hmmmm...religion of peace celebrated here.
I started to copy parts of the article to reference that I found so shocking. But I found myself highlighting the whole article. Wow, those people at that school have some serious charges to answer to. It seems the girl was abused twice - once by her attackers and again by the school administrators.
Something about the article doesn't ring true.
In one sentence it says "Dozens witnessed..."
Another says "Several witnessed..."
To me, there's a big difference between "several" and "dozens"
You touch my daughters, sons, wife. I will phuck you up.
Used to be called special ed kids...
It gets more interesting. Their web site lists the faculty and staff of the school, and it doesn't look anything like the article.
http://www.columbus.k12.oh.us/mifflin_high/1MISSION/staff.html
Administration
Laura Commodor-Young, Principal
Dennis Dorsey, Assistant Principal
Jonathan Stevens, Assistant Principal
Anthony Alston, Assistant Principal
Larry Marshall , Athletic Director
Marshall Cobb, Security
Secretaries
Mindy Kindall, Princpal's Secretary
Nicole Meyers, Discipline Secretary, and Records
Leondra Drakeford, Attendance
Instructional Assistants
Mohamed Ramadin, ESL
Abdillahi Mohamed, ESL
Ahmed Mohamed, ESL
Omar Ail, ESL
Janet Johnson, SED
Sharon Kirby, Records
Treasurer
Judy Locke
Bump
From the website, must be a large muslim population in the school:
"
Mohamed Ramadin, ESL
Abdillahi Mohamed, ESL
Ahmed Mohamed, ESL
Omar Ail, ESL "
The entire school district doesn't meet academic standards...It's an inner city school. This is common-place among inner city schools were the priorities lie elsewhere. My good bet is that Mifflin High is tops with their football and basketball teams.
They can still be arrested on the spot, held for up to 24 hours to let them know it is not "O.K. to do that, then release them and charge them officially within 90 days when they have their facts straight.... there's no need to let them go as if they did nothing wrong and let them think they got away with it and talk it up leading to more of the same.....
"developmental delays" can be a variety of things.
Usually it means that the kid is what we used to call "slow".
My daughter is very mildly autistic. She is "developmentally delayed".
I actually find this a blessing in disguise, because she is 13, and yet so far is more interested in playing with her Pokemon game and roller-blading than she is in being "sexy" or chasing boys.
Oral sex isn't sex, just ask Bill "Fellatio" Clinton.
Just like my public high school on the west side of Cincinnati.
I was a minority and hated school because of the violence.
I felt more incarcerated than educated.
I'll be dammed before my children have to experience the hell that I went through.
What's the first language at this school - Farci?
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