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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~ Is there any reason why we cannot take these punks out and shoot them?
Take the ones that stood around and watched with them ~
Yep! Parents had better start stepping in teaching morals/values to their offspring. They sure aren't learning it anywhere else. There is no accountability.
I stand corrected.
Also called common sense by 90 percent of the posters here.
Oh my gosh! The school officials are fired because of their inaction. Students watched! Our country is not in good shape!!
I'm sure Regina will catch on someplace else. How long before the racism charges start?
"I thought disabled people didn't count anymore because of their low quality of life."
Yeah, where do they think they are, Florida?
Well, as is my wife's hope whenever some heinous crime occurs, perhaps they'll be shot resisting arrest.
Yeah because rapes never occured before 1994.
Hang 'Em High. Include the principle and assistant principles. Especially the one who said do not call the authorities
No, its called focusing on the race instead of the crime. All of the focus on the race of the perps and the victim just perpetuates the racist stereotype that republicans (unfairly) have.
This is the same thing that we on the right complain about when the left does it. When a crime is committed, punish the person committing the crime rather than trying so hard to find a societal root cause to it. Rape is wrong and it doesn't matter if the person grew up in white baptist church environment or in P Diddy's house - the crime should be focused on not the person's race.
White guys rape women too. When one does, its doubtful that many of you would be focusing so much on the race.
This principal should be stripped naked and tossed into a male prison for a week or two!
Her father said the girl is developmentally disabled. A special education teacher said the teen has a severe speech impediment.
These boys those actively involved and those that watched need to be stripped naked and tossed into a male prison for a week!
What sort of parents raise animals such as this?!
So the principal didn't call the police because she is part of the hip hop culture?
Someone please, tell me again how abandoning your child to the public school system when you are not completely destitute is not child abuse?
Oh, never mind. Maybe the theory applies regarding "black male teens who do not have a father become abusive to females".
I do not care what your color is. Abuse is to be punished, not ignored!!!
Another "Clinton Legacy". Don't forget the ice.
Sure they do. However, when one group that represents about 10% of the population, commits the majority of the violent crimes in america... its not racist to NOTICE this little fact.
Trial by firing squad.
Oh, that's right. I forgot, evil republicans are all racists. I'll remember next time. /sarcasm off
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