I was wondering how an entire school could know the identity of “Victim 1”. This article makes it sound as if the administrators are probably responsible for this.
Things get around. A grand jury hearing is not hermetically sealed. THIS IS A BIG THING. As big for Pennsylvania as the Clinton thing was for the country.
I heard an interview with one of the administrators. It made my mouth drop open. She said it was a small town and everybody knew his identity. Then she stumbled and stammered a bunch of bureaucrat speak (”the school had not implemented policies aimed at facilitating the reentry of this student,” but with every 2 words interspersed with “uh, uh, uh”). Nowhere did she say that the treatment given this kid by the other students was wrong, should have been stopped, or should have any consequences to them.
I doubt that this boy had ever been popular - I think he was somewhat from the wrong side of the tracks, he had minor discipline problems and not a lot of friends, and he didn’t have a father at home (which was why he was considered “at risk” and had gotten into that Second Mile program). In other words, exactly the type of kid that pedophiles look for.