Posted on 04/06/2024 12:17:05 PM PDT by Twotone
A lawsuit claims four students took turns forcibly penetrating a third-grade girl in a restroom stall, blocked her escape, and received one-day suspensions, OregonLive reported.
The lawsuit claims employees of both Portland Public Schools and a Multnomah County-sponsored after-school program operated by nonprofit Latino Network failed to protect the girl — who was 9 at the time — from being sexually assaulted, the outlet noted.
The girl's family filed the lawsuit in Multnomah County Circuit Court last month; it seeks up to $9 million in damages on grounds including negligence, lack of oversight, and failure to protect a vulnerable person from abuse, OregonLive said.
The lawsuit alleges that when the student was in third grade at Scott Elementary in northeast Portland in 2022, one of her classmates touched her genitals over her clothing without her permission during a class a district educator was overseeing, the outlet said.
In a separate incident that same school year, the suit states that another student tried to kiss the girl without her permission, and she hit him to protect herself, OregonLive reported.
The suit notes that both of those students were suspended, and the school told the girl’s father that it would create a “safety plan” for her, the outlet noted.
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But in a separate incident in April of that same year, the suit alleges, two other students in the after-school Schools Uniting Neighborhoods, or SUN, program told the girl that they would “find out where she lived” unless she told the after-school program’s staff that she needed to go to the bathroom.
She did so, the lawsuit alleges, and the students followed her there, locked her in a stall, removed her pants and took turns forcibly penetrating her as she protested. She couldn’t escape, the lawsuit charges, because her alleged assaulters took turns blocking the stall doors.
The father of one of the male students who was involved heard about the incident and reported it to school staffers, the outlet said, citing the lawsuit.
But instead of notifying police, “PPS staff undertook their own internal investigation" and interviewed the girl without immediately notifying her family or legal representatives, OregonLive noted, citing the lawsuit.
What's more, the lawsuit states that the alleged perpetrators were suspended for one day, the outlet stated.
Six days after the incident, the plaintiff’s father brought his daughter to Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel for a medical evaluation, OregonLive reported, citing court documents. A week later, CARES Northwest — a child abuse evaluation program — heard the girl's story and concluded that “the history provided was highly concerning for sexual abuse,” the outlet said, citing the lawsuit.
OregonLive said the girl's father soon transferred her and her younger brother to a different district school, according to the lawsuit, which adds that the process took a month and interrupted their education. In addition, the girl has been coping with trauma, pain, suffering, social anxiety, and academic setbacks, the outlet said, citing the lawsuit.
The lawsuit states that Portland Public Schools and SUN program affiliates are liable for not teaching students about sexual boundaries, not enforcing rules around sexual behavior on school property, and not communicating with other adult caregivers in regard to the plaintiff’s history and safety concerns, OregonLive said.
“The district learned of these new allegations last week when we received the lawsuit, and we are investigating,” Sydney Kelly, a spokesperson for Portland Public Schools, told the outlet. “We are mandatory reporters, meaning we must report any instance of possible child abuse and neglect. We take our responsibilities as mandatory reporters seriously and follow the law around reporting.”
I doubt many nine year olds know anything about sex. That is, most who don’t live in an urban ghetto.
I’m guessing those children who do, are exposed to porn, either from magazines in the home, or access to “adult” tv; they’ll put almost anything on tv nowadays. Over 40 years ago, my 8 year old cousin told my aunt that a FIVE year old girl in the neighborhood went around offering to perform oral sex to the boys in the neighborhood. They lived in a once good neighborhood that was in decline, especially after a housing project was built a few blocks away.
Northeast Portland is the most diverse part of the state. Its crossroads are Cesar Chavez and MLK blvd.
Oregon sounds like to many are living around the wolves to much parents and kids going wild.
Even with an object, it’s still rape.
Our entire culture has changed in one generation- down the toilet!
IMHO, the left has cried "rape" so much, and associated it with "sexual assault" (which truly does have a broad definition). So they feel the need to tell us "penetration" so that we know that this time they mean rape rape, not just wolf whistling or butt grabbing.
She and her siblings were transferred.
It does not matter what they penetrated with her. Legally it is regarded as sexual assault or sodomy. Their ages are not any sort of defense because there is no way they did not know it was wrong. Remember they threatened her to make her come into the bathroom so they could assault her.
It is rape, call it what it is. Thake the four and execute them immediately, jail the parents for the animals they spawned.
I guess it’s not enough for insane liberals to flat out murder children in the womb via abortion.
You have to add some molestation, rape, sodomy, and other forms of torture to the menu too as part of their ritual diversity offerings.
Liberalism and those who adhere to it are Satan’s tools.
A society that tolerates this insanity will not last long.
Bye Oregon!
The father transferred her and her brother to another school. Maybe out of the frying pan and into the fire - who really knows.
I would’ve removed them to homeschool. But, maybe he’s a single dad with no choice but to keep them in a school somewhere?
Kudos to the father who turned his son in.
If I were the girl’s father I would kill the boys, their families and then hunt down the teachers and administrators.
Maybe YOU need to go back to school and learn how to read.
the girl's father soon transferred her and her younger brother to a different district school,
Definitely. Personally, I’d throw his ass in jail myself and put me right behind him for not teaching him better. I have, from the moment he could comprehend, educated my son in respect for women and especially how he should treat any significant other in his life.
Some can’t afford to buy the land necessary for that solution. Then again, there are other ways to achieve the desired result.
Because they are idiots......
The father’s is not pressing criminal charges against the boys? Rape is rape...no matter what age.
Well, it is Oregon. It surprises me that they were suspended for one day. It would not have surprised me if the victim was expelled and imprisoned. Criminals are king and queen in the State of Oregon.
the girl’s father soon transferred her and her younger brother to a different district school, according to the lawsuit, which adds that the process took a month and interrupted their education. ....
For goodness sakes please interrupt it!
I want state laws that say, no matter the grade level, from pre-school all through college, no education institution can defer or keep to themselves any matter that is a crime on the books of the state’s laws, that all such matters must not be “internally” investigated first, but must call in and defer to law enforcement agencies, and further must defer to those agencies for advice on immediate actions and any disciplinary action must be predicated on the advice and findings of the legal authorities (currently education institutions make decisions against individuals on mere allegations and without protecting any rights of the accused).
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