Yeah, why is there no mention of someone... anyone... trying to defend the girl after being stabbed several times, and then choked and then thrown down the stairs? This sounds like it took more than 30 seconds for all of this to occur. Did her classmates just watch this happen and do nothing?
Exactly, thanks for making my same point too!
In my school, in the sixties, at least three of us would have been all over this guy in seconds !!!
There is also no question that minimally he would have had the snot knocked out of him before the cuffs went on!
I have a 28 year old daughter I’m fixing to go to brunch with who is very attractive in high school and is now a CPA. I remember being scared to death that something like this would happen to her with boys constantly asking her out so I CONSTANTLY coached her “Christina!.....you treat these boys with respect, don’t put them down EVEN SLIGHTLY...EVER!!!
Always BE AWARE of signs some boy is going to ask u out and then always have a polite, respectful reason WHY you couldn’t accept! If she was not going to the event I would tell her “Blame Dad”. If she was going to an event “blame it on Dad “having to meet u first” and on and on. We got pretty good at making/creating excuses that would not hurt a boys feelings.
I wonder if she even had a Dad?
Agree—multiple student witnesses who can recount the whole scene and what was said. But not a word of anyone making an attempt to help her defend herself.