Posted on 04/12/2005 4:52:46 PM PDT by paltz
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A 16-year-old disabled girl was punched and forced to engage in videotaped sexual acts with several boys in a high school auditorium as dozens of students watched, according to witnesses.
Authorities are investigating and no charges have been filed in the alleged attack last month at Mifflin High School. Four boys suspected of involvement were sent home and have not returned to class.
Also, the principal, Regina Crenshaw, was suspended and will be fired for not calling police, school officials said. And three assistant principals were suspended and will be reassigned to other schools.
Crenshaw had no comment Tuesday.
The girl was forced to perform oral sex on at least two boys, according to statements from school officials, obtained by The Columbus Dispatch.
Part of the alleged assault was videotaped by a student who had a camera for a school project.
School officials found the girl bleeding from the mouth. An assistant principal cautioned the girl's father against calling 911 to avoid media attention, the statements said. The girl's father called police.
Her father said the girl is developmentally disabled. A special education teacher said the teen has a severe speech impediment.
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It's just teenaged boys acting under the influence of testosterone. They can't be expected to control themselves. Teen agers today are all sexually active. Right?
Is there any reason why we cannot take these punks out and shoot them?
I just read that ... unbelievable. The worst is the assistant principal telling the father not to call the police. We don't want our school getting bad press ...
ARGHHHH!
Every one of those witnesses needs charging as accessories.
I cannot believe not ONE high-schooler was man enough to stop that crap.
"Four boys suspected of involvement were sent home and have not returned to class"
That'll teach em.
It's okay if they were wearing their school issued condoms, right?
As guilty as the perps. In fact, they are the perps as well.
"An assistant principal cautioned the girl's father against calling 911 to avoid media attention, the statements said."
Glad to see the publick skuls are doing their job babysitting our children, right?
Sickening, just sick.
It makes me despair for our society.
I mean, dammit, even I woulda stepped in. (It'd probably have helped that I was bigger than 90% of the guys in my school.)
Unbelievable. With role models such as this no wonder it's 'anything goes' in so many schools.
Apparently, she didn't want to lose the $8000 per student that the state pays the school.
A gang rape could cost the school over $100,000 in lost revenue.
They've already updated the staff directory with the new principal.
I Am Speechless..........
What kind of people and/or what kind of environment makes this kind of thing even a possibility. Utterly despicable, just absolutely abhorrent.
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