GDS Student Newspaper posts about the horrible incident

[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).

This is a piece of the story that I find very complicated. Can a family or a minor wave their rights to a protection afforded by law? How much legal jeopardy does the school take on if they had sent such a communication? How much criticism do they take for outing an alleged to victim? For interfering with a police investigation? And how does that communication to the community go? “This is what we’ve been told happened, as of now there’s no evidence except for the boys testimony, and does anyone here know any thing about it?” Take a moment and think about the ramifications of that kind of email going to the community. I realize there are people that think the family was not served by the school but at the same time there are lawyers directing all of this and yes, the whole thing is terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are current families concerned?

Yes, I learned about this last year through the grapevines. In the Spring 2025, I demanded to speak to Russell through his secretary but he would not take my call. I was appalled by the lack of accountability anywhere there and the handling of the security at the school because my child was also being bullied there. The school didn't have correct cameras at all key entrances, didn't hold video long enough, and did make any effort to retrieve past video. I found that the security there was silly and consisted of lazy retired MPD officers. No education on this planet is worth the well being of any kid. Through his secretary and the High School office I made it clear to Russell that if he didn't take my call I would pull my kid from the school at the end of spring and I would call every top 40 college and university in US and one by one speak with the head admissions about what was going on at GDS and the spin game Russell was trying to do to protect the reputation at GDS. Russell got my communication.

GDS wants a great reputation so parents keep endlessly paying these outrageous sums and parents keep paying because they FOMO to get their kids in the top 40 schools. It's a sick game and it's twisted on all fronts.

Here is the bad news and there will be collateral damage. Russell refused to take my calls even when I threatened with what I would do.I tried multiple times over a few weeks to reach him. Unfortunately, because of Russell's lack of leadership I spent 2 months last year talking to the heads and alerting all the top universities/colleges what had happened at the school, the culture of bullying, Russell's leadership and the fact that two prepataros that go there are still unaccounted for. Again, to parents no education on this planet is worth the well being of any kid. Parents, blindly paying irresponsible GDS with the hopes of top 40 is now going to be even harder because you chose a school with a sick guy at the head of the table educating your kids.

What is even more outrageous is that Russel makes +1 Million a year in income from GDS which is why it is a good idea to keep the gravy train going. The more GDS makes the more Ruesell would get rewarded by a clueless Board. The ridiculous part of this is that Russell makes more than the Georgetown University President who has to manage a campus, staff and student body 30x bigger. Seems to me Russell had the best scam going in all of DC.

Thank God you are no longer a GDS parent. Right? You did immediately withdraw, right?

Btw, the Georgetown President made 1.6 million in 2024. Pretty sure our DC school heads made less than that.

[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.

When would the other parents have come forward yet? Until
late Thursday no one knew it had happened. And the school’s emails since then, basically saying the kid made it up, would probably make anyone thinking of coming forward think twice.

I think one of the reasons the family sent the email was in hope that more people would come forward. If I was a conspiracy theorist I might even wonder if the school email was deliberately harsh to dissuade anyone else from coming forward.

Also-I know the family, they are quite liberal so I really doubt this is a kid afraid to come out. If anything I think the email shows how brave the kid is— it’s not easy for a kid to tell everyone he was anally raped ( they know many people know who the victim is). Not that he has anything to be ashamed of, but still many would be reluctant to do it, and if they could do this I can’t imagine they couldn’t tell the parents about their orientation. This is also one of the many reasons I believe the victim here—I think very few boys would make something like this up, from fear of social repercussions. Bullying or even touching? Maybe. But to make this up seems unlikely.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:GDS parent here.

No parent that we know despises Russell. We think he's been a strong leader of the school.

Anonymous wrote:GDS parent here.

No parent that we know despises Russell. We think he's been a strong leader of the school.

Strong leader? The guy was intent on sweeping all this under the rug and had the parents never spoken up and asked for help no one would have ever even been aware this even happened. It would have been buried in the dungeons of GDS where they would have preferred it.

Do you not see the problem? They are playing this PR caring defense nonsense after the fact, they never had intention to play offensive. They never had any proactive intentions to actually do what their PR generated letter says. They had plenty of opportunities to alert people last year, summer, fall. MPD does not tell people that they can not talk about a crime because it will interfere with an investigation, that is complete garbage coverup. Just imagine, the police telling Ms. Guthrie, we the police want you to not alert anyone about the crime of your mother because it not allow us to do an investigation and figure out the criminals.  If this pathetic letter Russel sent was genuine it would have been sent in the spring 2025, Summer 20025 latest.

Russell was betting it would blow over with the student leaving and all would be forgiven. He was betting with the well-being of your child. So wakeup a little. 

The guy is basically a scammer and he is in charge of the school who is educating your kid and others. He is playing the Scammer Fake News game. This is 10x worse than anything Donald Trump is doing because it is with kids.  This is how people learn to become fraudsters when they grow up. 

I agree that this is exactly how we end up with Christine Blasey Ford, the Epstein files, Penn State...etc.

Right?! It’s crazy that in this day and age, with the Epstein files on the news every day, that people say that if something happened no one would have covered it up or that no charges being filed means nothing happened.

[Anonymous]

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If the older boys thought about masking, then they probably did not leave other forms of evidence. And since the assault was months ago, what evidence could there be?

At this point, Met Police needs to clarify whether the allegations are credible or not, separate from whether they found evidence. If the allegations are credible, then the Head, who did not technically lie, must be brought to task for not taking this seriously enough. He's making it seem like the assault did not happen at all.

There are roughly 80 boys in 7th and 8th grade combined. Even if faces were covered, it seems that hair color, race, articles of clothing, make of sneakers, etc. are things that could have been noted. If so, it would significantly narrow the pool of suspects.

I have deep compassion for the victim and family. At the same time, I also understand how the school could not take action with out more proof. Would you want you your child to be expelled based on an allegation? The movie Atonement comes to mind. It seems the parents are trying to rectify this. As a parent, I would want to do everything to protect my child. This kind of incident also makes you wonder if someone else had abused the kid (trusted adult) and this was a way to process it without implicating a real perpetrator.

[Anonymous]

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If the older boys thought about masking, then they probably did not leave other forms of evidence. And since the assault was months ago, what evidence could there be?

At this point, Met Police needs to clarify whether the allegations are credible or not, separate from whether they found evidence. If the allegations are credible, then the Head, who did not technically lie, must be brought to task for not taking this seriously enough. He's making it seem like the assault did not happen at all.

There are roughly 80 boys in 7th and 8th grade combined. Even if faces were covered, it seems that hair color, race, articles of clothing, make of sneakers, etc. are things that could have been noted. If so, it would significantly narrow the pool of suspects.

I have deep compassion for the victim and family. At the same time, I also understand how the school could not take action with out more proof. Would you want you your child to be expelled based on an allegation? The movie Atonement comes to mind. It seems the parents are trying to rectify this. As a parent, I would want to do everything to protect my child. This kind of incident also makes you wonder if someone else had abused the kid (trusted adult) and this was a way to process it without implicating a real perpetrator.

If the child was either younger or older, for different reasons, then I too would be wondering about a trusted adult. There's something about an 11 year old boy saying this about a 13 year old boy that makes it different.

None of that means that GDS acted wrong or that the MPD could prove anything either way.

[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.

What? This is not only DC it's GDS.

But, putting that aside, even if it was partly consensual there's a major problem. He was 11 not 13. If anything, this line of thinking just raises more questions about the alleged perpetrators.

[Anonymous]

so now what all the kids are getting side eyed/ is it him?

[Anonymous]

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.

They DID go to the police first.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are current families concerned?

Yes, I learned about this last year through the grapevines. In the Spring 2025, I demanded to speak to Russell through his secretary but he would not take my call. I was appalled by the lack of accountability anywhere there and the handling of the security at the school because my child was also being bullied there. The school didn't have correct cameras at all key entrances, didn't hold video long enough, and did make any effort to retrieve past video. I found that the security there was silly and consisted of lazy retired MPD officers. No education on this planet is worth the well being of any kid. Through his secretary and the High School office I made it clear to Russell that if he didn't take my call I would pull my kid from the school at the end of spring and I would call every top 40 college and university in US and one by one speak with the head admissions about what was going on at GDS and the spin game Russell was trying to do to protect the reputation at GDS. Russell got my communication.

GDS wants a great reputation so parents keep endlessly paying these outrageous sums and parents keep paying because they FOMO to get their kids in the top 40 schools. It's a sick game and it's twisted on all fronts.

Here is the bad news and there will be collateral damage. Russell refused to take my calls even when I threatened with what I would do.I tried multiple times over a few weeks to reach him. Unfortunately, because of Russell's lack of leadership I spent 2 months last year talking to the heads and alerting all the top universities/colleges what had happened at the school, the culture of bullying, Russell's leadership and the fact that two prepataros that go there are still unaccounted for. Again, to parents no education on this planet is worth the well being of any kid. Parents, blindly paying irresponsible GDS with the hopes of top 40 is now going to be even harder because you chose a school with a sick guy at the head of the table educating your kids.

What is even more outrageous is that Russel makes +1 Million a year in income from GDS which is why it is a good idea to keep the gravy train going. The more GDS makes the more Ruesell would get rewarded by a clueless Board. The ridiculous part of this is that Russell makes more than the Georgetown University President who has to manage a campus, staff and student body 30x bigger. Seems to me Russell had the best scam going in all of DC.

Goodness you sound truly unhinged

+1000. Poster of the sick rant above: please get out of your basement and get some help.
Kids, including mine, seem to be getting into “top 40” colleges at the same rate as previous years and other private schools in the city. So my guess is that your calls to colleges have had zero impact, as anyone sane would have anticipated.

I actually would take you a bit more seriously. The unhinged incoherence of your post suggests you might even be a threat to the GDS community, someone who wishes real harm on parents and students alike and actually takes actions to cause harm. Get help for yourself before you end up doing something you truly regret.

DP: YOU lost all your credibility with that second paragraph of projection

Oh really? This is a poster who by her own admission, has been calling colleges for 2 months badmouthing GDS and its students. That meets any reasonable definition of taking action to cause harm. Projecting much yourself, or are you just the original obsessive ranter?

Calling colleges about something that happens at an alementary school hoping to ding the high school students is kind of screwy.

[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/

But the claim was that the police the allegation was credible.

If you have to lie to create credibility, maybe there is none to begin with.

[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/

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

Then let me ask again, where do the police say that they find the allegations credible?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

When would the other parents have come forward yet? Until
late Thursday no one knew it had happened. And the school’s emails since then, basically saying the kid made it up, would probably make anyone thinking of coming forward think twice.

I think one of the reasons the family sent the email was in hope that more people would come forward. If I was a conspiracy theorist I might even wonder if the school email was deliberately harsh to dissuade anyone else from coming forward.

Also-I know the family, they are quite liberal so I really doubt this is a kid afraid to come out. If anything I think the email shows how brave the kid is— it’s not easy for a kid to tell everyone he was anally raped ( they know many people know who the victim is). Not that he has anything to be ashamed of, but still many would be reluctant to do it, and if they could do this I can’t imagine they couldn’t tell the parents about their orientation. This is also one of the many reasons I believe the victim here—I think very few boys would make something like this up, from fear of social repercussions. Bullying or even touching? Maybe. But to make this up seems unlikely.

Anally raped? Where does it say that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are current families concerned?

Yes, I learned about this last year through the grapevines. In the Spring 2025, I demanded to speak to Russell through his secretary but he would not take my call. I was appalled by the lack of accountability anywhere there and the handling of the security at the school because my child was also being bullied there. The school didn't have correct cameras at all key entrances, didn't hold video long enough, and did make any effort to retrieve past video. I found that the security there was silly and consisted of lazy retired MPD officers. No education on this planet is worth the well being of any kid. Through his secretary and the High School office I made it clear to Russell that if he didn't take my call I would pull my kid from the school at the end of spring and I would call every top 40 college and university in US and one by one speak with the head admissions about what was going on at GDS and the spin game Russell was trying to do to protect the reputation at GDS. Russell got my communication.

GDS wants a great reputation so parents keep endlessly paying these outrageous sums and parents keep paying because they FOMO to get their kids in the top 40 schools. It's a sick game and it's twisted on all fronts.

Here is the bad news and there will be collateral damage. Russell refused to take my calls even when I threatened with what I would do.I tried multiple times over a few weeks to reach him. Unfortunately, because of Russell's lack of leadership I spent 2 months last year talking to the heads and alerting all the top universities/colleges what had happened at the school, the culture of bullying, Russell's leadership and the fact that two prepataros that go there are still unaccounted for. Again, to parents no education on this planet is worth the well being of any kid. Parents, blindly paying irresponsible GDS with the hopes of top 40 is now going to be even harder because you chose a school with a sick guy at the head of the table educating your kids.

What is even more outrageous is that Russel makes +1 Million a year in income from GDS which is why it is a good idea to keep the gravy train going. The more GDS makes the more Ruesell would get rewarded by a clueless Board. The ridiculous part of this is that Russell makes more than the Georgetown University President who has to manage a campus, staff and student body 30x bigger. Seems to me Russell had the best scam going in all of DC.

Goodness you sound truly unhinged

+1000. Poster of the sick rant above: please get out of your basement and get some help.
Kids, including mine, seem to be getting into “top 40” colleges at the same rate as previous years and other private schools in the city. So my guess is that your calls to colleges have had zero impact, as anyone sane would have anticipated.

I actually would take you a bit more seriously. The unhinged incoherence of your post suggests you might even be a threat to the GDS community, someone who wishes real harm on parents and students alike and actually takes actions to cause harm. Get help for yourself before you end up doing something you truly regret.

DP: YOU lost all your credibility with that second paragraph of projection

Oh really? This is a poster who by her own admission, has been calling colleges for 2 months badmouthing GDS and its students. That meets any reasonable definition of taking action to cause harm. Projecting much yourself, or are you just the original obsessive ranter?

Calling colleges about something that happens at an alementary school hoping to ding the high school students is kind of screwy.

It's screwy but it's not "threat to the community", "someone who wishes real harm" kind of screwy.