Posted on 04/28/2015 6:32:40 PM PDT by markomalley
CLEVELAND – Police arrested two male teens at Cleveland’s East Technical High School after a female student told authorities they raped her in a school computer lab last month.
The 18-year-old alleged victim told police two of her male classmates, a 16-year-old she had prior relations with and his 18-year-old cousin, forced themselves on her in a school computer lab as school was letting out March 18, according to Cleveland.com.
The girl told ABC 5 the 16-year-old asked her to meet him at the computer lab, she did, and that’s where he attempted to force himself on her.
“I said ‘no’ like 10 times, and no means no,” the alleged victim said. “He was pushing my head, and then I pushed him off of me, and that’s when he ran out of the room.”
The boy’s cousin then came into the room to give her the same treatment, the alleged victim said.
“He pulled his pants down, he’s like, ‘Can you do me?’” she told ABC 5.
Both of the alleged attackers were arrested on March 20 – one at his grandmother’s house and the other at his home – though only the 16-year-old has been charged with kidnapping and rape in juvenile court.
Detectives responded to the school to collect DNA evidence from the computer lab floor and interviewed students. Evidence was also collected through a rape kit before investigators referred the case to Cleveland police’s sex-crimes division, Cleveland.com reports.
The 16-yer-old suspect is currently on a GPS-monitored home detention and is expected in court May 12, a court spokeswoman told the news site.
The alleged victim faulted the Cleveland Metropolitan School District for failing to notify her classmates and all parents about the incident.
She’s also upset because one of her alleged attackers is still attending classes at East Technical High School.
District officials refused to discuss the situation with the media, and instead issued a brief statement that doesn’t really say much.
“I cannot comment on the discipline or attendance of any student in our schools due to privacy rights, and the district has received no court order preventing a student from attending school during the investigation,” spokeswoman Roseann Canfora wrote.
“As with all discipline issues, we notify parents of the students alleged to be involved in the incident. In this case, parents are informed by phone and in person. We do not share the student information with other parents, as there is a presumption of innocence during the investigation and we are responsible for protecting the privacy rights of our students,” she wrote.
Many readers online were clearly upset by the allegations.
“Both of these East Tech students ought to be tried as adults. They are charged with committing an adult crime (not some status offense like breaking curfew), so they should be tried as adults and sentenced, if found guilty, as adults,” OldRuss posted to Clevelend.com.
“The time for coddling violent offenders is long gone.”
“Thugs in our communities, thugs in our cities, thugs in our schools around our children,” commenter tomorrow posted. “When are people really going to stand up and fight back against these thugs? It’s time that citizens say enough!”
Teens.
This article confuses me. First to says they raped her then it describes how they didn’t write then she says they raped her. Which is it????
okay my voice text let me down. When I was trying to say was, first it said they raped her. Then it describes how they did not rape her. Then it says again How they raped her. Which is it??
Rolling Stone will do an in-depth investigative story on the problem of teen rape in Cleveland High Schools.................uh huh.
Calling Rolling Stone, calling Rolling Stone ...
Where’s Rolling Stone when you really need them ...
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Lynch is proof positive that the current Republican leadership is our sworn enemy.
You’re right. It’s like being on the Titanic after the lifeboats have left.
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