Posted on 04/13/2005 8:08:09 AM PDT by Abathar
Police: Dozens Watch As Student Forced To Perform Sex Act Officials Say Student Videotaped Abuse
UPDATED: 8:32 am EST April 13, 2005
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Police say several students witnessed the sexual abuse of a girl at a Columbus high school.
A 16-year-old student with developmental delays said she was dragged into the auditorium of Mifflin High School, punched and forced to perform oral sex on at least two male students while more than a dozen other students were called in to watch.
One student reportedly videotaped the sex acts, WCMH-TV in Columbus reported.
A student witness reported hearing an attacker warn, "If you scream, I'll have my boys punch you."
The same witness said the girl then dropped to her knees after she was punched in the face.
Students scattered when help was called, officials said.
During the attack, one witness looked for a school security guard but could not find anyone, he told investigators.
"We went back to the auditorium; the victim was 'butt naked,"' the witness said, and someone "was on top of her."
The attackers then ran from the scene, and witnesses helped the girl get dressed before taking her to a security employee, who is not a police officer.
Mifflin High School officials who found her bleeding from the mouth March 9 did not call police, and an assistant principal cautioned the girl's father against calling 911 because the media might get involved, according to statements from school officials obtained by The Columbus Dispatch. But the girl's father insisted on calling police and contacted them later that afternoon.
Special education teacher Julie Calvario said the girl told her about the incident.
"(She said) she was scared and told him to stop, but he hit her in the head and told her to be quiet," Calvario said.
Even after administrators were alerted to the alleged criminal act, they did not call police, or the victim's father, WCMH reported.
More than an hour later, teacher Lisa Upshaw called the girl's father. Upshaw said that when the girl's father arrived, assistant principal Richard Watson would not call the police.
The girl's father demanded that school officials call the police.
"Mr. Watson said, 'No we don't want to do that, we don't want the police,"' Upshaw told the investigator.
In his statement, Watson said he told the father to "go ahead and call," but not to call 911 because the "news channel might tape his daughter and cause her further mental trauma."
Richard Watson is one of three assistant principals suspended for 10 days. Principal Regina Crenshaw will likely lose her job, WCMH reported.
The girl's father called police after Upshaw told him, "This is child abuse. She needs medical attention and this is wrong."
WCMH reported that Upshaw also told the girl's father that he needed to take the victim to the hospital and that she was a walking crime scene.
Administrators reportedly warned the father that if police were called, the news media would follow, WCMH reported.
Police said they now have the videotape and the investigation continues, although no charges have been filed so far.
This would be any number of issues. I am familar with Down Syndrome. They are very trusting of people, that is why they are such targets. They are the most innocent individuals.
I am going to make some phone calls and ask some questions.
I did a search and nothing came up with that headline - oops
The principal's name is Regina - HER watch
It's even more unbelievable that a FEMALE principal was not outraged at this and did not call police or the family.
Oh wait, the liberals don't think some people's lives are worth living. Maybe this principal agrees, so this girl's "developmental delays" make her a non-person.
This is beyond disgusting.
Developmental delays can mean several things, but for sure the girl is in the special education program. She is probably listed "MID" - mildly intellectually disabled - because her IQ scores are low.
Union work rules. In most public schools, during breaks, the teachers hide in their rooms intentionally oblivious to anything that goes on outside
If only her parents had just starved her death like they were supposed to this never would have happened.
It means she is special education. The reasons are numerous. It is likely she should be separated from others for her own protection and her own needs but its no longer PC to keep special ed kids out of regular classroom.
Well, gee. It was only rape.
Lot of people there need a good ass-kicking and then a law suit to end all lawsuits.
And what did the "adults" do after the fact?
Developmentally delayed...sounds to me the sick f*cks who did this are developmentally delayed. And the school administration that took hours to wade through a "moral and ethical delimma for the school" aren't far behind, either.
Sick children...
....usually have sick parents.
Thank God for the teacher who had the guts to stick up for this girl and against her bosses who wanted to sweep this under the rug.
no, Sauel Colt!!
I'm with you. They all need to be punished. This is horrific.
Your proposition may be better, but I'd handle it very quietly....
Not only is this school going down. The school system is going to take a major whack.
Dozens of sexual assualt charges.
School administrators lack of oversight.
Security company misfeasance.
Teacher negligence (why weren't these students accounted for at a specific time /location?)
I would have the most vicious lawyer ripping each of these of defendents and dozens of others a new a$$hole.
Lawyer lottery times ten!!
I am wondering what the teacher's union will do. Force the keeping of the staff?
Maybe the residents of the school district should withold their property tax funding for the school district.
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