GDS Student Newspaper posts about the horrible incident

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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?

The email from the parents

[Anonymous]

If the email is really that specific from the parents, it is really not fair to the boy. Everyone in the school can figure out who left last winter. When he is older he may not want to have been identified.

And for what? I don't get what the family thinks is going to happen. CPS investigated as did the police. There are no leads. The school has no incentive to go looking for any perpetrator. And on the very remote chance a 11 or 12 or 13 year old is suspected. Nothing much would happen. 11 and 12 year olds can't get arrested in DC. And realistically not much would be done to a 13 year old. There is a lesser penalty if there is not a 4 year age difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the email is really that specific from the parents, it is really not fair to the boy. Everyone in the school can figure out who left last winter. When he is older he may not want to have been identified.

And for what? I don't get what the family thinks is going to happen. CPS investigated as did the police. There are no leads. The school has no incentive to go looking for any perpetrator. And on the very remote chance a 11 or 12 or 13 year old is suspected. Nothing much would happen. 11 and 12 year olds can't get arrested in DC. And realistically not much would be done to a 13 year old. There is a lesser penalty if there is not a 4 year age difference.

You guys are deranged. Mind your own business. Either help the family with info so they can receive a legitimate investigation, not a sham one for the purposes of limiting liability and covering up any negligence, or move on with your life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the email is really that specific from the parents, it is really not fair to the boy. Everyone in the school can figure out who left last winter. When he is older he may not want to have been identified.

And for what? I don't get what the family thinks is going to happen. CPS investigated as did the police. There are no leads. The school has no incentive to go looking for any perpetrator. And on the very remote chance a 11 or 12 or 13 year old is suspected. Nothing much would happen. 11 and 12 year olds can't get arrested in DC. And realistically not much would be done to a 13 year old. There is a lesser penalty if there is not a 4 year age difference.

You seem to condone rape in school bathrooms. Maybe you are fond of Greek rituals.

[Anonymous]

People ought not blame the victim. Have sympathy. Sexual assault on males is widely under-reported nationally.

[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.

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.

Go get mad at Pathetic Russell. Russell was looking to protect the school's reputation, not your child or the child affected. He put the school above the child in order to appease parents like you. Parents that will say out loud that they are sorry that the child had to go through this yet they will happily and stupidly keep their child at GDS because it didn't happen to their child and will selfishly, willingly, and happily keep their child at GDS because they are in reality a self absorbed FOMO parent that want their child to get in a great college at all costs. 

Why all the great schools because that is the selling point GDS uses and brags about.. It baited a lot of you self absorbed parents who jockeyed your child's application and spent these ridiculous unwarranted sums just to get an education. An education that is really not any different than any well run public school in the US.  
So now you are pissed at the person who informed all the great schools of the toxic environment at GDS because now you have a problem. Things now actually affect you and you are pissed that your ROI is at risk. So some of you that can't walk the talk are just as pathetic as Pathetic Russell. Good for the person that has been alerting schools of this toxic school so they are informed about the problem that this school was working overtime to suppress in order to help parents like you, You deserve to go down with Russell because he and you put the school ahead of the well being of the affected child and actually your child too. What college wants to take a chance and admit someone that got away with this and have them come to their school and do even worse. 

Go get mad and pissed off at GDS because the administration didn't didn't do enough to prevent this nor enough to get the criminals. They cut corners to save money and tried to suppress it to keep a shiny imagine so a lot you jockeying, self absorbed FOMO parents keep sending junior and your dollars to them. A lot of you parents with this mentality also raised a lot these bullies that learned by example from you and now flourish as GDS bullies. A lot of you parents enabled this situation and actually want to keep it going because you are pissed at this person for alerting others when you like Russell only want to suppress things.

[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.

I suggested this exact thing upthread. We have no way of knowing. Someone betrayed this kid but we have no way of knowing who it was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

I’m here to say that I work with SA survivors and reading some of the responses in this thread absolutely disgusts me, so thank you for coming here to defend this boy and his family. What I don’t think people realize is how much SA goes completely unreported, and it’s for many reasons, but one of them is the fact that people act like the child isn’t credible and don’t believe them, and question their story. I can’t tell you the number of times that adult men have confessed to me that they were assaulted or raped when they were a child (sometimes it was reported, sometimes it wasn’t). In ALL cases it was someone they knew - many times in a school context, or with a neighbor, and yes, sometimes the SA occurred with other children as the perpetrator. You should always believe the child, they have zero to gain and everything to lose with coming out with a story like this. Not only do they have to live with the nightmare of what happened to them, but then they have to deal with the fodder and criticism of the community on top of it. Truly sickening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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.

I suggested this exact thing upthread. We have no way of knowing. Someone betrayed this kid but we have no way of knowing who it was.

By not seeking information about the incident from the school community, and doing a sham investigation for only their own legal protection, perhaps the HOS betrayed this kid more than anyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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.

I suggested this exact thing upthread. We have no way of knowing. Someone betrayed this kid but we have no way of knowing who it was.

By not seeking information about the incident from the school community, and doing a sham investigation for only their own legal protection, perhaps the HOS betrayed this kid more than anyone else.

What evidence do you have that it was a sham investigation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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.

I suggested this exact thing upthread. We have no way of knowing. Someone betrayed this kid but we have no way of knowing who it was.

By not seeking information about the incident from the school community, and doing a sham investigation for only their own legal protection, perhaps the HOS betrayed this kid more than anyone else.

What evidence do you have that it was a sham investigation?

What evidence do you have that it was a legitimate investigation? It appears that nothing was done. Not even a basic request for info. Was anybody interviewed besides the victim?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

I’m here to say that I work with SA survivors and reading some of the responses in this thread absolutely disgusts me, so thank you for coming here to defend this boy and his family. What I don’t think people realize is how much SA goes completely unreported, and it’s for many reasons, but one of them is the fact that people act like the child isn’t credible and don’t believe them, and question their story. I can’t tell you the number of times that adult men have confessed to me that they were assaulted or raped when they were a child (sometimes it was reported, sometimes it wasn’t). In ALL cases it was someone they knew - many times in a school context, or with a neighbor, and yes, sometimes the SA occurred with other children as the perpetrator. You should always believe the child, they have zero to gain and everything to lose with coming out with a story like this. Not only do they have to live with the nightmare of what happened to them, but then they have to deal with the fodder and criticism of the community on top of it. Truly sickening.

Two things can be true - false allegations happen and SA abuse is under-reported. Shaming people for their opinions is highly unlikely to end up with anything productive happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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.

I suggested this exact thing upthread. We have no way of knowing. Someone betrayed this kid but we have no way of knowing who it was.

It doesn't sound like MPD did anything, the school of course took a back seat. It sounds like MPD just waited and let things come to them because they probably didn't prioritize it.  The MPD mindset is likely, they see 10x worse crimes and don't have the resources and time to go full on every case. I did not hear of anyone being interrogated or the use of police powers ever being used for subpoenas.  It doesn't sound like the POS school even tried to generate a list of students or students with behavior problems and actively work along with MPD to find the criminals that did their deeds under their watch. The pressure should be put on MPD and GDS. With just the parents pushing for justice with no one else putting pressure on MPD along with no one knowing about the situation because GDS was trying to sweep things under the rug no wonder the parents have been having a hell of time. Usually schools want to get to the bottom of this. But it sounds like POS GDS was putting more effort on suppression and spinning fake news than putting pressure on MPD or being proactive with MPD. Why because they were hoping it would go away and not damage them.  What a POS GDS is, unforgivable. Russell there is a special place in hell for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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.

I suggested this exact thing upthread. We have no way of knowing. Someone betrayed this kid but we have no way of knowing who it was.

It doesn't sound like MPD did anything, the school of course took a back seat. It sounds like MPD just waited and let things come to them because they probably didn't prioritize it.  The MPD mindset is likely, they see 10x worse crimes and don't have the resources and time to go full on every case. I did not hear of anyone being interrogated or the use of police powers ever being used for subpoenas.  It doesn't sound like the POS school even tried to generate a list of students or students with behavior problems and actively work along with MPD to find the criminals that did their deeds under their watch. The pressure should be put on MPD and GDS. With just the parents pushing for justice with no one else putting pressure on MPD along with no one knowing about the situation because GDS was trying to sweep things under the rug no wonder the parents have been having a hell of time. Usually schools want to get to the bottom of this. But it sounds like POS GDS was putting more effort on suppression and spinning fake news than putting pressure on MPD or being proactive with MPD. Why because they were hoping it would go away and not damage them.  What a POS GDS is, unforgivable. Russell there is a special place in hell for you.

Wow so you think that despite the lack of credible evidence, the school and MPD should have rounded up all the “problem” kids an interrogated them? You realize this is how false confessions are made?

[Anonymous]

Kids talk if this happened kids would know.

If you had a child there then what do they say.