GDS Student Newspaper posts about the horrible incident

[Anonymous]

Schools rarely handle sex assault well. Not just elite private schools.

https://stopsexualassaultinschools.org/sexual-assault-k-12-reports/

If the alleged perpetrators are guilty here it is in society’s interest for them to get intensive help now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Former GDS parent here (2 children, K-12), who was deeply involved as a volunteer at the school. Also, I'm a former administrator of a DC public school. From the perspective of the former - MS leadership have the lead responsibility for this type of issue, clearly reporting to Russell, because it involves their student specifically. From the perspective of the latter, who has dealt with accusations against a teacher or student, MPD, CPS, staff, etc. have to follow specific protocols of mandatory reporting, investigation, and follow-up.

What I learned from 10 years as a school administrator is that DCUM is a wonderfully useful platform for sharing experiences, recommendations, ideas, etc. but, sadly, counterproductive for this type of issue. There is an inverse relationship between the number of postings and number of people posting. Essentially, it's an exchange between a relatively small number of people. That said, enjoy the exchanges for what they are but don't expect them to influence such a situation.

Above all, my heart breaks for the 11-year old child because, no matter what is true or not, they are a victim of something in some way.

It’s only responses like this that I find immaterial.

Was the Board informed? I can’t believe there wasn’t a discussion on whether or how to release this information to parents in ES and MS. I also have to believe that at no point would it not have been useful to inform and engage the community.

If there were other victims, either before or after, they may have also left the school now. Teachers or students who maybe saw or heard something relevant may have left or forgotten.

By not making the information public the school also may have missed an opportunity to discuss its current setup and investigate avenues to greatly reduce interactions in the bathrooms between students in ES and MS or to increase supervision during periods when overlap is most likely.

This.

[Anonymous]

He posted a link to the school paper account. He has 60k followers. This story is going to grow beyond GDS and DCUM.

GDS might want to have a crisis pr plan if not a genuine non-perv driven investigation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He posted a link to the school paper account. He has 60k followers. This story is going to grow beyond GDS and DCUM.

GDS might want to have a crisis pr plan if not a genuine non-perv driven investigation.

The story is basically that GDS proceeded correctly and nothing was found. Unless you are an extreme busy body or drama llama, there is nothing else to remark on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He posted a link to the school paper account. He has 60k followers. This story is going to grow beyond GDS and DCUM.

GDS might want to have a crisis pr plan if not a genuine non-perv driven investigation.

The story is basically that GDS proceeded correctly and nothing was found. Unless you are an extreme busy body or drama llama, there is nothing else to remark on.

We don't know that. We know very little in fact. The only thing we know is that GDS hired a political and reputational risk firm to investigate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He posted a link to the school paper account. He has 60k followers. This story is going to grow beyond GDS and DCUM.

GDS might want to have a crisis pr plan if not a genuine non-perv driven investigation.

The story is basically that GDS proceeded correctly and nothing was found. Unless you are an extreme busy body or drama llama, there is nothing else to remark on.

We don't know that. We know very little in fact. The only thing we know is that GDS hired a political and reputational risk firm to investigate.

It's insane that GDS would hire a firm that's listed in the Epstein files to investigate sexual abuse. This is the equivalent of hiring Casey Anthony to babysit your kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The article does not say it happened between classes. Please stop repeating that.

It could have happened anytime. Lunch. Before or after school. Who knows? Please stick to the facts.

The email from the parents says “between classes, during a regular school day.”

It is highly inappropriate for people to speculate or cast aspersions here, especially those who have not even seen the underlying emails.

GDS has had many bathroom incidents where students were ambushed in the bathroom. This is NOT NEW. THEY have the records at school that students were ambushed

What does this mean?

If this is true it should be reported to MPD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He posted a link to the school paper account. He has 60k followers. This story is going to grow beyond GDS and DCUM.

GDS might want to have a crisis pr plan if not a genuine non-perv driven investigation.

The story is basically that GDS proceeded correctly and nothing was found. Unless you are an extreme busy body or drama llama, there is nothing else to remark on.

We don't know that. We know very little in fact. The only thing we know is that GDS hired a political and reputational risk firm to investigate.

It's insane that GDS would hire a firm that's listed in the Epstein files to investigate sexual abuse. This is the equivalent of hiring Casey Anthony to babysit your kids.

Pretty curious, eh?

[Anonymous]

T&M is more of a fixer than a diviner of truth.

If anyone has evidence I hope they will contact MPD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait so the "independent investigator" they hired is from a firm that previously did work for Jeffrey Epstein? I would encourage everyone here to search for T&M USA in the Epstein files.

No, T&M itself did work for Epstein.

[Anonymous]

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I am not sure if the victims family thinks there is evidence that the Police have rejected but I doubt that the school is not cooperating with the police. This publicity is enough, never mind someone being able to point to not cooperating.

I’m not sure that the school is cooperating. I’m sure they have given the police everything they asked for, because they don’t want to be sued or accused of obstructing an investigation or something like that, but as they are they as cooperative and proactive as they could be? I doubt it, based on that that the email they sent out to parents today purged on blaming the victim and making it sound like the child completely made it up.
It provided no details about whatever their investigation was, or if they’ve done anything to either make sure that no more assaults occur or that no assaults do occur

A child’s allegations should always be taken seriously. In addition, if the child did make it up, they kept up with the lie long enough that their parents pulled both them and their sibling from the school and they’ve apparently been seeing a therapist ever since. It seems to me that a kid would have to be really really committed to put themselves through that for this long if nothing had happened.

regarding the masking, I wonder if it wasn’t a ski mask situation so much as it might’ve been kids obscuring their faces with a scarf they were wearing or drawing a sweatshirt hood close around their face.

I imagine the family would like anyone with corroborating evidence to come forward. The school never asked the community to do so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He posted a link to the school paper account. He has 60k followers. This story is going to grow beyond GDS and DCUM.

GDS might want to have a crisis pr plan if not a genuine non-perv driven investigation.

The story is basically that GDS proceeded correctly and nothing was found. Unless you are an extreme busy body or drama llama, there is nothing else to remark on.

We don't know that. We know very little in fact. The only thing we know is that GDS hired a political and reputational risk firm to investigate.

And the head of investigations for the firm is a disgusting perv himself. These outcomes are often steered.

Where did you get that from? Can people start sharing actual information alongside allegations?

Read the thread.

This whole thread is full of allegations and assumptions with very little actual information.

A post references specific conduct by their head investigator.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah maybe it is true, maybe it isn't. Let's check back in a couple months.

It happened in Nov 24, how long do you think we should ignore it? Another 6 months? Year? Until SOL expires?

[Anonymous]

Did NCRC hire a more reputable company to do their investigation? How did the Board of GDS choose Jeffrey Epstein’s fixer firm? The mind boggles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did NCRC hire a more reputable company to do their investigation? How did the Board of GDS choose Jeffrey Epstein’s fixer firm? The mind boggles.

Are all the process defenders in the thread really going to defend this?