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Anonymous
It happens all the time. Savannah Guthrie's mom is one example. |
Anonymous
| And people wonder why sexual assault is so devastatingly universal and grossly under reported. The victim's testimony isn't counted as 'evidence' by half the posters here. |
Anonymous
| I also have an 11 year old boy and can’t imagine him making this up or carrying on for this long if it wasn’t true. Something clearly happened there. I can see why any parent at the school would be worried about the alleged perps still being at the school. |
Anonymous
What you are insinuating is horrible. So unless someone films the rape, it did not happen? Are you serious? Shame on you! |
Anonymous
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GDS is negligent for
1.failure to properly have security personnel in the hall actually doing their job 2.failure to properly have security cameras at key entrances. Not having a camera pointed at the bathroom entrance where most bad things can happen is completely negligent. If there is one place you need to have a camera pointed at it is at the bathroom entrances because that's where most misdeeds happen and you need to have eyes on that at all times. They are selling an overpriced education and then they cheap out on cameras, unbelievable, no excuses for that. 3. failure to save footage 6 months plus of camera video. They should have saved a longer time frame, an unforgivable failure. Sometimes crime takes longer to surface after it is done. 4. failure to make any effort to retrieve lost footage from any camera in that area. It can be done if you try hard enough and know who to ask for help. Just imagine if they would have given up so easily as GDS did in the current Guthrie case and just accepted that there was no video evidence. GDS, there was no evidence because you failed to get good camera placement, secure what footage you took, or try everything in your power to retrieve past footage. You add that with the lazy guys at DC MPD that don't want to work a case with all the best evidence and you have nightmares like this where you get this slimeball Head play fake new GDS was the source of all the failures and negligence. Even their own security report audit showed they lack things that they need to address, they paid someone to point out there own failures and then made it public so they can I guess tell everyone how they failed. |
Anonymous
When they have an actual suspect or someone got shot! |
Anonymous
Seriously. An 11 year old boy claiming that they were anally raped is not something that would normally be in the realm of false accusation. The social stigma alone, even at GDS, would make such a claim unlikely to be 100% false. Something happened. Whether there is criminal proof of what happened, at a school in which the potential perpetrators are likely connected and capable of fighting back, is a completely different matter. |
Anonymous
+1000 |
Anonymous
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I am not part of the school community, but as an administrator at another independent school I want to say that it is critical that schools response to these kinds of allegations is to refer them to outside authorities and investigators, and then to step back and let those authorities investigate.
It has been shown over and over that schools and colleges who investigate bring bias to that investigation. GDS might or might not have done the right thing here, but the decision to let MPD take the lead is the right one. |
Anonymous
Nobody knows if it was the kid or the parent who made the allegation. And false allegations happen. They really do. If there was any hint this actually happened the school would have been all over it. I just don’t for a second believe that a school would sweep a rape during school of an 11 year old under the rug. |
Anonymous
You sound like you want this to be true, which is it’s own kind of twisted ness. |
Anonymous
No, I simply believe a traumatized 11 year old and his family. You stick with the rapists |
Anonymous
Wow, you sound like Russell himself. Everyone I spoke with agreed that it is risky to take people from a random school in DC that sells it as the top school in the region. Who wouldn't want to roll the dice and infect their communities with students groomed in a culture of bullying by bullies raised by self absorbed parents like yourself allowed to flourish in the GDS breeding ground. A place where two unaccounted rapists get to be groomed because of the negligence of the administration. It's parents like you that enabled this culture and teach your kid to be a bully with th name calling others. We get it, you have no problem and put education and money before your child's wellbeing and have no problem rolling the dice at GDS. |
Anonymous
| So what happens next? Assuming no new information is brought forward the school just hopes this goes away? Case closed? What a black cloud to hang over a whole school. |
Anonymous
Do you realize how dumb it sounds to say that your criteria for believing something is that somebody said it? |