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.”
Nonprofits are a nightmare. I saw an after-school program years ago that was clicking off two boxes - 'helping kids whose parents worked (after school programs) - mixed with an exconvict job program (getting jobs for people recently released from prison). Clicking off two boxes helps secure funding. The Homeless industry is one of the worst... but that's a different story.
They got a free day off for sexually abusing a child. This is how predators are cultivated and rewarded.
Parents have solution available...
Find the miscreants, remove their genitals, then SSS...
Fixed.
Remember when everyone thought unionized “teachers” teaching toddlers “sex ed” in elementary school wasn’t a good idea?
Depends on where you are from, yes Americans years ago knew something like this incident was criminal, what if you are from the middle east, Africa or some other culture where women are treated a common property.
I have no way of knowing for sure, when reports like this don’t mention the race or ethnicity of the people involved, usually it means the criminals are from some protected class aka African American, Muslims, or your random illegal immigrant from some 3rd world hellhole.
The students were just practicing what they read in the school library.
Most states have a Mandatory Reporter law for child abuse, usually applies to teachers, medical, and school officials. They MUST report child abuse to law enforcement. Sometimes it’s a Felony to fail to report it.
The family transferred their kids to another district
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“Forcisbly penetrating”? Why don’t they come out and say what it is, i.e., “raping”?
What exactly happened in this case?
How old were the boys who abused the girl?
The article says that they penetrated her. Were they old enough to penetrate her meaning sexual intercourse? Did they abuse her in some other way?
Overall the ages of the perpetrators will really determine what sort of legal punishment can ever happen.
Does it mention how old the boys were?
No information about the perps at all.
About the dumbest suggestion I’ve ever read on FR.
When little kids do sexual assaults they need an extreme intervention, but a victim’s parent castrating them is going to result in prison for the parent and separation from a child who needs the guidance, comfort, and protection of her parents.
Here it is 2024, I’m 69, and with all of the shit I have done in my life and all of the shit I’ve been accused of doing it still boils down to the simple fact that I have no kids in school as the deciding factor of me not being in prison.
I would track down and execute every one of the little bastards.
Portland must be a great place to live if you’re a socialist.
“’Forcisbly penetrating’? Why don’t they come out and say what it is, i.e., ‘raping’?’”
Probably because the penetration was by an object or fingers. Not trying to be crude, but the boys who did this might not have the physical ability to “rape”.
Usually, the oldest children in the same school as a nine-year-old would be 11 or 12. However, since some of the other incidents leading up to this involved the girl’s classmates, it’s likely these boys were her age at the time—9.
I bet all the gender grooming and kiddie sex being discussed in the Portland classrooms played a role in this rape. It blew up in the faculties face.
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