Police investigating sexual assault at Springbrook High School

[Anonymous]

https://wjla.com/news/local/springbrook-high-school-silver-spring-sexual-assault-rape-bathroom-montgomery-county-public-schools-police-sro-ceo

90 min for police to arrive..

[Anonymous]

This incident happened on Tuesday. The news story broke on Friday.

Why was there no communication of a serious violent act on a MCPS school campus between Tuesday and Friday?

Was the accused student in class after Tuesday? What is being done to protect female students from this violent individual?

I also thought police officers were back into high schools after the Magruder shooting. Was that only for a week? 90 minutes to respond for a rape is terrible.

[Anonymous]

I happen to know that the media only found out about it after story was leaked. Mcps would have kept this hidden forever…

[Anonymous]

This is the MCPS Child Abuse Reporting policy that would be applicable for a situation of rape at a school, even if the suspect is a minor.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/detail.aspx?recID=289&policyID=JHC-RA§ionID=10

Springbrook called 911, which was the correct response, but why didn’t the call immediately get flagged by the police as a referral to Special Victims Investigation Division? Perhaps a SVID detective could have arrived sooner than 90 minutes had 911 alerted SVID of the rape.

[Anonymous]

CEO was handling another call so couldn't get to this one before their shift ended. SRO on site would not have had this issue.

[Anonymous]

A male student reported in the morning on Friday that an attempted assault occured in the bathroom the day before. Why would the Police need to do an expedited response for that? It occurred the day before, no immediate threat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A male student reported in the morning on Friday that an attempted assault occured in the bathroom the day before. Why would the Police need to do an expedited response for that? It occurred the day before, no immediate threat.

sorry my bad, there were 2 in the same week. This is the 2nd one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the MCPS Child Abuse Reporting policy that would be applicable for a situation of rape at a school, even if the suspect is a minor.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/detail.aspx?recID=289&policyID=JHC-RA§ionID=10

Springbrook called 911, which was the correct response, but why didn’t the call immediately get flagged by the police as a referral to Special Victims Investigation Division? Perhaps a SVID detective could have arrived sooner than 90 minutes had 911 alerted SVID of the rape.

SVID did respond but they don’t respond out first. Patrol officers do. Then they call SVID if needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This incident happened on Tuesday. The news story broke on Friday.

Why was there no communication of a serious violent act on a MCPS school campus between Tuesday and Friday?

Was the accused student in class after Tuesday? What is being done to protect female students from this violent individual?

I also thought police officers were back into high schools after the Magruder shooting. Was that only for a week? 90 minutes to respond for a rape is terrible.

All good questions.

And why is MCPS not keeping our kids safe in school buildings?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This incident happened on Tuesday. The news story broke on Friday.

Why was there no communication of a serious violent act on a MCPS school campus between Tuesday and Friday?

Was the accused student in class after Tuesday? What is being done to protect female students from this violent individual?

I also thought police officers were back into high schools after the Magruder shooting. Was that only for a week? 90 minutes to respond for a rape is terrible.

All good questions.

And why is MCPS not keeping our kids safe in school buildings?

if 2 17yo at olds decide to rendezvous in a bathroom in the basement how could mcps have prevented that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This incident happened on Tuesday. The news story broke on Friday.

Why was there no communication of a serious violent act on a MCPS school campus between Tuesday and Friday?

Was the accused student in class after Tuesday? What is being done to protect female students from this violent individual?

I also thought police officers were back into high schools after the Magruder shooting. Was that only for a week? 90 minutes to respond for a rape is terrible.

All good questions.

And why is MCPS not keeping our kids safe in school buildings?

if 2 17yo at olds decide to rendezvous in a bathroom in the basement how could mcps have prevented that?

Are you serious?

More staff. More adults in the building. More security measures. More cameras in hallways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This incident happened on Tuesday. The news story broke on Friday.

Why was there no communication of a serious violent act on a MCPS school campus between Tuesday and Friday?

Was the accused student in class after Tuesday? What is being done to protect female students from this violent individual?

I also thought police officers were back into high schools after the Magruder shooting. Was that only for a week? 90 minutes to respond for a rape is terrible.

All good questions.

And why is MCPS not keeping our kids safe in school buildings?

if 2 17yo at olds decide to rendezvous in a bathroom in the basement how could mcps have prevented that?

If sexual assaults are occurring in the basement bathroom (2 supposedly in one week) or other violent crimes such as the Magruder shooting, there are steps all MCPS schools can take to improve school safety:

1) For Springbrook, if a particular bathroom is prone for problems because of its location in the basement, close that bathroom

2) have a staff member/security assigned to monitor bathrooms including using cameras to watch for who is entering the bathrooms

3) take off hallway doors to the bathroom (other MCPS high schools have done this for drug use in bathrooms)

4) limit bathroom use to one student at a time - students wait in hallway if bathroom is occupied

5) get violent students out of school buildings by placing them in the Virtual Academy

MCPS is supposed to be reviewing school safety. It seems that if violent crimes in school buildings are happening primarily in bathrooms then additional security for these locations is needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I happen to know that the media only found out about it after story was leaked. Mcps would have kept this hidden forever…

This is true and it’s sickening that it’s true. MCPS doesn’t care about students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This incident happened on Tuesday. The news story broke on Friday.

Why was there no communication of a serious violent act on a MCPS school campus between Tuesday and Friday?

Was the accused student in class after Tuesday? What is being done to protect female students from this violent individual?

I also thought police officers were back into high schools after the Magruder shooting. Was that only for a week? 90 minutes to respond for a rape is terrible.

All good questions.

And why is MCPS not keeping our kids safe in school buildings?

if 2 17yo at olds decide to rendezvous in a bathroom in the basement how could mcps have prevented that?

If sexual assaults are occurring in the basement bathroom (2 supposedly in one week) or other violent crimes such as the Magruder shooting, there are steps all MCPS schools can take to improve school safety:

1) For Springbrook, if a particular bathroom is prone for problems because of its location in the basement, close that bathroom

2) have a staff member/security assigned to monitor bathrooms including using cameras to watch for who is entering the bathrooms

3) take off hallway doors to the bathroom (other MCPS high schools have done this for drug use in bathrooms)

4) limit bathroom use to one student at a time - students wait in hallway if bathroom is occupied

5) get violent students out of school buildings by placing them in the Virtual Academy

MCPS is supposed to be reviewing school safety. It seems that if violent crimes in school buildings are happening primarily in bathrooms then additional security for these locations is needed.

THIS

Thank you. MCPS should be able to implement all of this, at every school, immediately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I happen to know that the media only found out about it after story was leaked. Mcps would have kept this hidden forever…

This is true and it’s sickening that it’s true. MCPS doesn’t care about students.

+1 You think this is the first time MCPS tries covering up rape in its schools?

No communication to the community and no plans to prevent future assaults at Springbrook or other MCPS middle schools and high schools.

Bathrooms and locker rooms are magnets for crimes in schools because they are the places where security cameras don’t exist. These are the areas where the majority of drugs are sold andrapes occur. It’s no coincidence that the Magruder shooting happened in a bathroom.

Dr. McKnight keeps putting out fires and fakes transparency versus developing a concrete security plan for schools to implement. It speaks volume that her own child goes to private school instead of MCPS.