Student attacked with taser in Oakton HS locker room

[Anonymous]

The kid told his parents several days after the incident and showed the video to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The device in question is a "stun gun," not a Taser.

what's the difference?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was just about to mention restorative justice policies, thanks.

Explain how this works? Does the victim have to come face to face with the kids who assaulted him? If so, is that one-on-one or what? If not, that would be very intimidating. If so, that would be intimidating and very time-consuming for him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was this in a locker room for a PE class? Or after school for a sports practice?

At any rate, the person who took the video, the person who tased, and the person(s) who restrained should all be expelled from FCPS and criminally charged. Bystanders should be assessed on a case by case basis.

There should have been communication from the school to all students and parents the day in happened. I do not trust the school to handle this situation with a focus on protecting the victim.

This was during the school day, in the locker room after a 9th grade PE class. It is not clear when the school learned of it but multiple videos were widely circulated among students (Snapchat, etc) in the past week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was just about to mention restorative justice policies, thanks.

Explain how this works? Does the victim have to come face to face with the kids who assaulted him? If so, is that one-on-one or what? If not, that would be very intimidating. If so, that would be intimidating and very time-consuming for him.

No, what happens is that the school tells the family they are dealing with it, so police isn't called, and the school then takes its sweet time to interrogate the main people involved and may confuse them thoroughly, since they are not trained to conduct such interviews. The school may handle any evidence and tamper with it, again because they are not trained to preserve evidence. School systems in the area have restorative justice policies, which means they believe minor perpetrators may have adverse life circumstances that affect their sense of right and wrong, and if given additional chances to redeem themselves, have better chances of becoming law-abiding adults. The result is that a lot of time is wasted before the victim's family realizes that the perpetrators will not be punished adequately, and the victim will likely not be separated from them in class. Then if/when the family finally decides to call the police, the investigators have to deal with witnesses who may have forgotten the exact timeline of events, because they were confused by the earlier interviews with school staff and some time has already elapsed. Videos that were circulated have had ample time to be deleted, and any physical evidence may have been washed off the floor (blood, etc) or otherwise handled in a way that makes it inadmissible in a court of law.

This is not because school systems purposefully set out to flout investigative processes and deny protections to victims. It's because there is zero clarity for administrators and staff to distinguish between minor events that should be appropriately handled by the school system, which understandably tends to err on the side of leniency, since they are dealing with children, and major events that require immediate police investigation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The kids involved should be kicked out of Oakton and, if this is their first offense, sent to different schools. If they already have records, expel them.

Sent to other schools? That was the method MCPS used for one of the Damascus HS eventual broomstick assault perpetrator. Shifts the aggressive students to another location and puts other students at risk. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-rape-locker-room-hazing-instigator-juvenile-trial-victims-outraged-20190322-acyn5gpbujazfnbcemhuiperc4-story.html

Transfer around and bury the problem. Assaults in locker rooms whether PE or sports can be buried by schools nd worse yet if the victim is in distress the victim can be further victimized by the school system. Been there experienced that with FCPS. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-rape-locker-room-hazing-instigator-juvenile-trial-victims-outraged-20190322-acyn5gpbujazfnbcemhuiperc4-story.html And a judge sent it to juvie? Records wiped?

Finally as seen in CIP testimony here have been students whose parents have been forced to home school because of actions against the vulnerable in PE and locker rooms. Whether the victim was disabled or small r just not part of the group of perps is irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

I hope the police are involved and that the attackers are permanently expelled from FCPS. Also, what parent had a stun gun laying around for 9th graders to get access to it?? The parents need to be prosecuted too.

[Anonymous]

^ Unfortunately transfer for some of the involved students may be what’s provided for under the student rights and responsibilities regulations. There are specific grounds for expulsion & for transfer. The perpetrators have hearing and appeal rights too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reminder:

When your child reports being attacked on school grounds, CALL POLICE and file a police report immediately. Do not wait to contact the school first. School systems have restorative justice procedures that conflict directly with evidence preservation and accurate witness reports. The result is that if the school starts their procedures before police arrives, it is harder to get a conviction for the perpetrators and justice for the victims.

This is especially true for sexual assault cases. I just took a required class on this, and one of the top takeaways was report out first, and then internally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope the police are involved and that the attackers are permanently expelled from FCPS. Also, what parent had a stun gun laying around for 9th graders to get access to it?? The parents need to be prosecuted too.

That's first thing I wondered...
Where did they get a stun gun?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The device in question is a "stun gun," not a Taser.

Like that f'ing matters

[Anonymous]

Isn't this why they have alternative high schools, as punishment for discipline? Isn't this why that quandar road high school is always in the Vienna police blotter?

[Anonymous]

I would feel like such a failure as a human being if my kid was involved with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't this why they have alternative high schools, as punishment for discipline? Isn't this why that quandar road high school is always in the Vienna police blotter?

Huh? Quander Road is in Alexandria. Things that happen at the Dunn Loring Center would be more likely to show up in the Vienna police blotter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if the investigation reveals wrongdoing, and that must proceed accordingly, do disciplinary rules allows w for any kind of punishment? Rehabilitation?

I’m not understanding your post. Do rules allow punishment for attacking another student with a taser? What do you think? And what rehabilitation do you suggest? At the very least, the victim should not have to fear for his safety at the hands of these kids. They should be expelled and sent to another school, or first juvie.

great. they can end up in someone else's school and do the same type of cr*p