GDS Student Newspaper posts about the horrible incident

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m horrified - an 11 year old boy would not make this up. There is no benefit for him to do so. I’m not affiliated with GDS but maybe the perpetrators were not students.

In the future, parents should 100% go to the police first, just like in college sexual assault cases. Schools have shown time and time again they don’t care about victims, just liability. Not blaming the victim - GDS administration seems cruel and inept.

Assuming that GDS is concerned about liability - which they would be given all the high powered attorney parents - GDS would have expelled or counseled out any student strongly suspected of committing this crime for fear of the students doing this again. The fact that, as far as we know, no one has been expelled or counseled out suggests that there really is no clear suspect. GDS would be more motivated to find these students and get rid of them than to keep them precisely because of liability, which suggests that they would do everything in their legal power to cooperate with investigators to find these alleged perpetrators. The fact that both the police and the independent investigators found no one does not suggest a cover up.

+1.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I think we need a lot more information. Of course, the natural instinct is assume that everything alleged is correct and horrible. Concurrently, it’s difficult to understand why there was no evidence.

What constitutes as evidence besides the student's testimony?

+1. NO 11 yr-old boy would make this up. Victims need to be believed.

GDS makes me sick. Believe victims!

How do you know they are a victim and not making it up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anybody from anywhere? That’s called denial my friend. You think some hoodlums walked in off the street and did this😂😂 way to believe kids. It’s been. A YEAR PLUS of this family trying to work with the school and all they asked for was for the school to share that an incident happened. And the school could have said we are doing our best but want to be proactive. But nope. Swept it under the rug. And if the cops said there was no evidence that it happened the school had further reason to send a letter but the cops said it is credible but they need more info. The school is hiding this FOR A REASON. And anybody above who isn’t believing this is part of the admin. I am sure of it (like I’m actually sure).

When did the MPD say the allegations were credible. The article says:

"An MPD spokesperson told the Bit that the department closed the case because MPD detectives could not find credible leads. The spokesperson said the department would reopen the case if the department received new, credible evidence. The spokesperson did not specify when the department closed the case."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Again I want to point out that somebody said above if your kid was accused of something awful….

If my kid was accused of something awful my LAST THOUGHT would be worry about what others thought. My first thought would be what happened and why and getting all the facts.

I know for a FACT that at least one anonymous person on here doubting this story is GDS MS admin. So take that for what it’s worth.

How do you know this "for a fact?"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This behavior above is SICKENING. perhaps you are too scared to admit this could happen in a school that promises to be a home away from home, but to say this is implausible is SO bad. May your children NEVER go through something where you OR ANYBODY else says that it doesn’t sound plausible. You should be ashamed.
And to say that bc there are two a secret couldn’t be kept? I would say these kids have a pretty strong reason to keep their mouths shut. To say this family is unhappy with the school and imply this is payback leads me to this anonymous is with the administration. Like anybody would do that bc they’re unhappy with a school.

But the family made the allegation, the school and the police investigated, there wasn’t sufficient evidence to charge anyone with a crime or to take action against a perpetrator and that sort of seems to be where this has to end. Horrible and disturbing things happen in school environments, but so do false accusations.

NP but you're drawing an unwarranted conclusion here. The police said that the allegation was credible but that they didn't have sufficient evidence to charge anyone. That doesn't mean they think it's a false accusation, that means they can't figure out, or don't have sufficient evidence to prove, who did it.

Leaping from "no charges" to "therefore kid is a liar" is not rational and doesn't even align with what the statement the article attributes to the police.

Where do the police say this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I think most reasonable people will conclude it never happened but that GDS should install additional cameras.

How do you know there wasn’t camera evidence?
I believe the boy was traumatized just because it would be so highly unusual for a child to make this up, but there needs to be corroborating evidence that the trauma happened 1) at GDS; 2) by GDS students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I think we need a lot more information. Of course, the natural instinct is assume that everything alleged is correct and horrible. Concurrently, it’s difficult to understand why there was no evidence.

What constitutes as evidence besides the student's testimony?

+1. NO 11 yr-old boy would make this up. Victims need to be believed.

Not saying this is what occurred but an 11 or 12 year old boy who had a very conservative family and was gay might say something to protect himself from the conservative parents. The child could have been abused by someone else because perhaps they still come in contact with the perpetrator but is too afraid to say where else it occurred so blurted out it occurred at school. Clearly the boy was traumatized in some way.

It is just really hard logistically to understand how this happened at school without other parents coming out saying there were incidents of other students being sexually harassing, being touched inappropriately, being followed into bathrooms. To just go from nothing to not one but two young students at the school are rapists also is hard to believe. And not only rapists but able to plan together to wear masks and disguise their voices and ensure no one enters the bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Haven’t read all 22 pages of this thread. Postings to say that private schools are literally I the business of keeping things private. Many schools have skeletons in their closet. Victim shaming is real and most families (and teachers) move on. Can you imagine what would happen if a parent or teachers went to the media with these kind of allegations? An entire school could be shut down and many people would lose their jobs. Plus, the child would always be linked to the event.

[Anonymous]

The laws in DC are different than MD. In MD, anything happening between kids of a similar age is considered sexual assault versus abuse. All kinds of privacy laws then protect the assault perpetrator.

Any parent with a kid in a private schools are needs to be asking admin how often staff receive training or reporting sexual abuse. In MD, the consequences for a teacher NOT reporting is loss of their teaching license. Private schools don’t even require teachers to have a teaching license

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This behavior above is SICKENING. perhaps you are too scared to admit this could happen in a school that promises to be a home away from home, but to say this is implausible is SO bad. May your children NEVER go through something where you OR ANYBODY else says that it doesn’t sound plausible. You should be ashamed.
And to say that bc there are two a secret couldn’t be kept? I would say these kids have a pretty strong reason to keep their mouths shut. To say this family is unhappy with the school and imply this is payback leads me to this anonymous is with the administration. Like anybody would do that bc they’re unhappy with a school.

But the family made the allegation, the school and the police investigated, there wasn’t sufficient evidence to charge anyone with a crime or to take action against a perpetrator and that sort of seems to be where this has to end. Horrible and disturbing things happen in school environments, but so do false accusations.

NP but you're drawing an unwarranted conclusion here. The police said that the allegation was credible but that they didn't have sufficient evidence to charge anyone. That doesn't mean they think it's a false accusation, that means they can't figure out, or don't have sufficient evidence to prove, who did it.

Leaping from "no charges" to "therefore kid is a liar" is not rational and doesn't even align with what the statement the article attributes to the police.

Where do the police say this?

This is what the original email from the parents said, which has been contradicted by Russell and now the MPD spokesperson quoted by Augur Bit. Augur bit reports "An MPD spokesperson told the Bit that the department closed the case because MPD detectives could not find credible leads. The spokesperson said the department would reopen the case if the department received new, credible evidence. The spokesperson did not specify when the department closed the case." I trust the school newspaper's reporting, quoting MPD with attribution, over a claim that sounds like hearsay in an anonymous email. The Augur Bit story is being updated regularly: "Developing: MPD Finds No Credible Evidence After Family Alleges Child Raped at Lower/Middle School"
https://theaugurbit.com/2026/02/12/developing-family-alleges-child-raped-at-lower-middle-school/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I think we need a lot more information. Of course, the natural instinct is assume that everything alleged is correct and horrible. Concurrently, it’s difficult to understand why there was no evidence.

What constitutes as evidence besides the student's testimony?

+1. NO 11 yr-old boy would make this up. Victims need to be believed.

Not saying this is what occurred but an 11 or 12 year old boy who had a very conservative family and was gay might say something to protect himself from the conservative parents. The child could have been abused by someone else because perhaps they still come in contact with the perpetrator but is too afraid to say where else it occurred so blurted out it occurred at school. Clearly the boy was traumatized in some way.

It is just really hard logistically to understand how this happened at school without other parents coming out saying there were incidents of other students being sexually harassing, being touched inappropriately, being followed into bathrooms. To just go from nothing to not one but two young students at the school are rapists also is hard to believe. And not only rapists but able to plan together to wear masks and disguise their voices and ensure no one enters the bathroom.

We're talking about GDS. This is not rural Kentucky.

[Anonymous]

Thank you. And as a heads up this is obviously a liberal family if they go to GDS, but it’s also an extremely liberal family, and I know for a fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you. And as a heads up this is obviously a liberal family if they go to GDS, but it’s also an extremely liberal family, and I know for a fact.

Not necessarily. There are conservatives at GDS. Could be a conservative family who sent their gay kid there thinking it was a good fit.

[Anonymous]

Having read many posts on these 22 pages, I will say that the keyboard warriors are spinning out of control, whether it’s accusations against the school or assumptions about the alleged victim and his family. Nobody here has all the facts. Please keep that in mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This behavior above is SICKENING. perhaps you are too scared to admit this could happen in a school that promises to be a home away from home, but to say this is implausible is SO bad. May your children NEVER go through something where you OR ANYBODY else says that it doesn’t sound plausible. You should be ashamed.
And to say that bc there are two a secret couldn’t be kept? I would say these kids have a pretty strong reason to keep their mouths shut. To say this family is unhappy with the school and imply this is payback leads me to this anonymous is with the administration. Like anybody would do that bc they’re unhappy with a school.

But the family made the allegation, the school and the police investigated, there wasn’t sufficient evidence to charge anyone with a crime or to take action against a perpetrator and that sort of seems to be where this has to end. Horrible and disturbing things happen in school environments, but so do false accusations.

NP but you're drawing an unwarranted conclusion here. The police said that the allegation was credible but that they didn't have sufficient evidence to charge anyone. That doesn't mean they think it's a false accusation, that means they can't figure out, or don't have sufficient evidence to prove, who did it.

Leaping from "no charges" to "therefore kid is a liar" is not rational and doesn't even align with what the statement the article attributes to the police.

Where do the police say this?

This is what the original email from the parents said, which has been contradicted by Russell and now the MPD spokesperson quoted by Augur Bit. Augur bit reports "An MPD spokesperson told the Bit that the department closed the case because MPD detectives could not find credible leads. The spokesperson said the department would reopen the case if the department received new, credible evidence. The spokesperson did not specify when the department closed the case." I trust the school newspaper's reporting, quoting MPD with attribution, over a claim that sounds like hearsay in an anonymous email. The Augur Bit story is being updated regularly: "Developing: MPD Finds No Credible Evidence After Family Alleges Child Raped at Lower/Middle School"
https://theaugurbit.com/2026/02/12/developing-family-alleges-child-raped-at-lower-middle-school/

MPD could find the child credible and still have no credible evidence.