Former Gaithersburg High School wrestler awarded $4 million in damages in sexual assault case

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We MoCo residents are to blame. MCPS can be held accountable by the BOE, but we continue to elect "yes-women" (it's all women who are elected) to those posts. Can't blame politics either -- BOE seats are non-partisan.

I voted for altennative candidates and even donated to their campaigns, but they were no match for the candidates well-funded by the teachers union (MCEA). We finally gave up and sent our kids to private.

"Yes women"? Misogynistic much?

I'm not PP but I'll fix it for them. We MoCo residents are to blame. MCPS can be held accountable by the BOE, but we continue to elect "yes-men."

Better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if the teachers accidentally found out about what happened. Do you think they might have been retaliated against for trying to teach the victim when the admin was involved in the cover up. I would say many teachers were retaliated against for trying to teach and help the victim of rape.

This wasn't rape, and the teachers didn't have any knowledge or cover anything up. The kid was immediately transferred. There was no retaliation.

You mean this was rape. Fixed it for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He deserved more.

Not really. He rode the coattails of the Damascus case. This was nothing close to that. The bigger issue though was the lack of supervision in the locker room. That's why they went after the school and not the person who committed the assault. They made him captain senior year (2020). So again, a MCPS coaching problem.

Rape is rape. Minimize all you want, but this was a horrific case and the jury responded accordingly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why Casey Crouse, the principal at Gaithersburg HS at the time of the assaults, still to this day has a job with MCPS. She clearly mishandled the management of the sexual assault reporting and did not maintain a safe environment for students.

Now MCPS has had to pay out millions in her defense.

We will never have a safe, sexual assault free school environment until school leadership responsible for safety experience real consequences. The only consequence she experienced was being taken out of her principal position and given a job at the same guaranteed salary in Human Resources. Still, today, she earns 160K+ a year, and she is probably on track to retire with that salary.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2019/05/damascus-principal-struck-deal-to-resign-retain-160k-salary-in-mcps-office-job/#:~:text=WhenCaseyCrouseresignedTuesday,wouldmaintainhersalary.

Christine Handy was the principal. She was immediately transferred.

I do have inside information on this case, and I'm shocked. But I won't go into detail. It would come off as a defense of MCPS, which is not my intent. I know the kid.

Look at how clever you are. You manage to smear the victim without really saying anything. You are disgusting and my guess is you're one of the coaches. There's a place in hell for creeps like you who ignore sexual abuse and just chalk this up to kids being kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if the teachers accidentally found out about what happened. Do you think they might have been retaliated against for trying to teach the victim when the admin was involved in the cover up. I would say many teachers were retaliated against for trying to teach and help the victim of rape.

This wasn't rape, and the teachers didn't have any knowledge or cover anything up. The kid was immediately transferred. There was no retaliation.

Do tell us who you are in that you are able to definitively state there was no retaliation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He deserved more.

Not really. He rode the coattails of the Damascus case. This was nothing close to that. The bigger issue though was the lack of supervision in the locker room. That's why they went after the school and not the person who committed the assault. They made him captain senior year (2020). So again, a MCPS coaching problem.

Rape is rape. Minimize all you want, but this was a horrific case and the jury responded accordingly.

That poster is the perfect example of what is wrong with the system. They are insinuating they work in the school system and look at them repeating misinformation and smearing the victim. Klassy.

[Anonymous]

Its gotten so bad that kids are raping kids and teachers get a hard time for reporting and admin gets promoted from covering up ( illegal??). This profession sucks. I don't recommend it. The kids are nasty and violent.