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Police: Dozens Watch As Student Forced To Perform Sex Act
The Indy Channel ^ | 8:32 am EST April 13, 2005 | AP

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: clintonlegacy; columbus; rape; school
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To: Abathar

Thank you for the link.

Precisely what I had expected.

This is a zoo that is called a school.

I would summarily execute anyone who did such as thing to my daughter.

The school's staff need to be charged for not reporting a crime and as accessories to the rape.


41 posted on 04/13/2005 8:32:14 AM PDT by TSgt (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
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To: Abathar

I think I'd have made mince meat of his/her face then asked "do you still not want to call the police, because I'm telling them and the media everything!!"


42 posted on 04/13/2005 8:32:27 AM PDT by logic ("All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing......")
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To: Abathar

In my opinion the girl who was raped is not near as mentally disabled as those who did the crime and those who stood around and watched, as for the sheithead who taped it theres another sick whacko.In fact the girl that was raped and the father seem to be the only sane people in that school. What kind of teachers would tell a rape victim not to call the police? The principle and the Assistants are mentally ill in my opinion. Its no wonder things like this happen in schools run by incompetents such as these.


43 posted on 04/13/2005 8:32:58 AM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: tfecw
Per Glenn Beck, the girl has some sort of speech difficulties.

Read elsewhere that principal is on unpaid leave and they are in the process of terminating her. Other 3 vice-principals are on unpaid leave, and will be transferred to other schools.

44 posted on 04/13/2005 8:33:15 AM PDT by uvular
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To: dawn53

Race may or may not matter but I wonder if they boys were black and this girl was white? Was this a hate crime?


45 posted on 04/13/2005 8:33:42 AM PDT by sasafras (Innocent blood is on Bush's hands for doing nothing to protect our border)
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To: Abathar
From your link to the high school's Web site:

Mifflin High School Mission Statement

The Mifflin High School Community is dedicated to the use of available resources to provide quality instructional programs in a safe, clean and orderly environment through which all students will develop to their highest potential, demonstrate mutual respect and prepare for a productive role in our society.

46 posted on 04/13/2005 8:34:17 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: logic

Sorry, Samuel Colt, in .45 ACP....


47 posted on 04/13/2005 8:34:54 AM PDT by logic ("All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing......")
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To: sasafras

See the link on post 25 for a photo of some of the students.


48 posted on 04/13/2005 8:36:08 AM PDT by TSgt (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
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To: Abathar
Richard Watson is one of three assistant principals suspended for 10 days. Principal Regina Crenshaw will likely lose her job, WCMH reported.

Absolutely unbelievable. Normally, I'm not in favor of lawsuits. But I will make an exception for this one. Sue this school district / county / state back into the Stone Age. No excuse for this at all.

49 posted on 04/13/2005 8:36:13 AM PDT by aBootes
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To: rrrod
EVERYONE OF THESE SCUMBAGS NEED JAIL TIME!

Including all the witnesses who did nothing and the school staff.
50 posted on 04/13/2005 8:36:14 AM PDT by Delphinium
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To: bonfire
Sick children... ....usually have sick parents.

Maybe so, maybe not. Or maybe a little of both.

But they can develop a lot of these attitudes via sick TV, sick movies, and sick music, not to mention sex education in the public schools, which basically tells them that anything goes as long as you use a condom.

Plus bill clinton and all the enables in the press, who taught school children that oral sex is OK, just a private matter, everybody does it, move on.

51 posted on 04/13/2005 8:37:24 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: uvular
Other 3 vice-principals are on unpaid leave, and will be transferred to other schools.

Yeah, there's a great idea. Spread the idiots around so every school can have at least one.

52 posted on 04/13/2005 8:37:25 AM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: sgtbono2002

it does sound like one of the teachers tried to do the right thing, otherwise, they're all scum....


53 posted on 04/13/2005 8:37:58 AM PDT by logic ("All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing......")
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To: uvular

If the girl does have speech difficulties, that's not necessarily a severe developmental disability. In which case I'd resent my daughter being labeled developmentally disabled because she had speech problems. (I do have a developmentally disabled daughter who is 17.)


54 posted on 04/13/2005 8:38:05 AM PDT by peacebaby (I'm regaining my inner peace today, and won't let anyone take it away.)
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To: Abathar

Hip-Hop and Rap just preachin' the anthem -- "hoes want/need/deserve it."


55 posted on 04/13/2005 8:38:08 AM PDT by Liberator
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To: brytlea; All
Ahh thanks for the translation. I figured it was along those lines. Sometimes what they call it and what it actually is don't match up.

I hope this girl and her family pull through, and that everyone else involved have fun being held down and sexually assaulted in prison. Trust me, the police won't be called then either.
56 posted on 04/13/2005 8:39:06 AM PDT by tfecw (Vote Democrat, It's easier than working)
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To: DTogo
The problem is these children were not raised properly. They should replant them about six feet down and see if that doesn't correct the problem. I have about 30 acres north of Cowlumbus, and I would gladly donate it to this kind of cause.
57 posted on 04/13/2005 8:39:20 AM PDT by jerwin63 (Enough!)
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To: dawn53
And why no charges filed if they know who the perpetrators are (and with that many witnesses, they must know?)

The perps aren't going anywhere and it takes a while to complete an investigation. DNA tests take some time and once charges are filed and the defendants are arraigned, the time limitation period on the right to a speedy trial kicks in. Speedy trial rights are the main reason for waiting at this time.

58 posted on 04/13/2005 8:39:39 AM PDT by connectthedots
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To: Abathar

>>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. <<

During one of my daughters soccer games (she was 11 at the time), the other team was a vicious inner-city type group that was playing quite rough - they were also like horses compared to the size of our girls. I was getting very frustrated with the refs not doing anything and the coach was concerned I might do something.

Well, one of the girls from the other team hauled off and punched one of our girls in the face. I started on the field and the coach said I needed to let the refs take care of it. I told her that assault is assault, no matter where it happens and this is now a police matter. She and I were coming from completely different paradigms.

This girl was raped and these boys need to spend a few years in prison.


59 posted on 04/13/2005 8:40:35 AM PDT by RobRoy (Child support and maintenence (alimony) are what we used to call indentured slavery)
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To: Falcon4.0

I feel ya, bro. >:(


60 posted on 04/13/2005 8:41:22 AM PDT by Constantine XIII
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