Girl Raped at Rockville HS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was at the meeting. The superintendent made a horrible impression. Kept taking about this "situation" or "single isolated event" should not be what we think of when we think of Mcps. He was totally dismissive of how devestating this is for this girl. She a statistic an outlier, something to be forgotten and eventually ignored to him. She was in their custody, they failed to protect her, she was harmed because of their negligence. I hope she sues the hell out of Mcps. The Superitendent is a callous jerk who I'm now certain tried to cover this up. He's gotta go. The whole thing is sickening.

Wow. I hope their is a lawsuit.

I know the money comes from taxpayers, but this poor girl was completely let down by the school system that should have protected her.

This 'single isolated event' is pretty horrifying to most parents. Does he even have kids??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wait until the full story is out on this one. It may not have been rape. There's a preliminary hearing next month.

Still - nothing should have happened to make news. I hope to goodness it's not rape, but I'm not too hopeful.

An arrest at a school for rape always makes news -- as it should.

That said, let's see how this case plays out. One possibility is this was consensual and the girl made up the story after regretting it later. Notice how the suspects did not flee the school after, but were arrested at school.

Now that we know there are cameras, I think your point is moot. But I also think it is disgusting. 9am consensual intercourse with two boys in a boys bathroom and you propose the possibility "that the girl made up the story after regretting it later?"

What kind of a mudpile did you crawl out of? Plenty of kids stay at their Ivy League schools and in fact at the scenes of the crimes after gang raping first year students. Should we assume that their continued presence is evidence of their innocence?

I take it you also agree with the Stanford swimmer's sentence - only 6 months in jail after raping a girl he did not know whom he found unconscious behind a dumpster. As his father wrote to the judge, appealing the severity of the sentence, six months is too much time for 20 minutes of misjudgment /enjoyment.

Do the world a favor, and don't pass on your antediluvian prejudices to your progeny - your boys will develop the same sense of entitlement, and your girls will never until hell freezes over admit that they were sexually assaulted - at a time, no matter what the age, when from painful experience I know that what they most need is their fathers and brothers and boyfriends/husbands standing beside them, believing them, and supporting them.

The 'consensual' posters are out of control. They did not leave the school because they were callous bastards and because they did not give a fuck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was at the meeting. The superintendent made a horrible impression. Kept taking about this "situation" or "single isolated event" should not be what we think of when we think of Mcps. He was totally dismissive of how devestating this is for this girl. She a statistic an outlier, something to be forgotten and eventually ignored to him. She was in their custody, they failed to protect her, she was harmed because of their negligence. I hope she sues the hell out of Mcps. The Superitendent is a callous jerk who I'm now certain tried to cover this up. He's gotta go. The whole thing is sickening.

+1000
They only had this forum because the national media picked up on it. The rape occurred 3/16. Nothing but a letter home to parents until now. Mcps ignored repeated requests by media. Heads at Mcps are sneaky.

[Anonymous]

I am willing to bet that more than one "single isolated event" of this nature has happened before (since the alleged perpetrators were casual and confident enough to RETURN TO CLASS after this alleged crime took place) and will happen again until MCPS are held accountable. Thank you 700+ parents for being present.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am willing to bet that more than one "single isolated event" of this nature has happened before (since the alleged perpetrators were casual and confident enough to RETURN TO CLASS after this alleged crime took place) and will happen again until MCPS are held accountable. Thank you 700+ parents for being present.

Yes! Thank you to the parents who showed up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was at the meeting. The superintendent made a horrible impression. Kept taking about this "situation" or "single isolated event" should not be what we think of when we think of Mcps. He was totally dismissive of how devestating this is for this girl. She a statistic an outlier, something to be forgotten and eventually ignored to him. She was in their custody, they failed to protect her, she was harmed because of their negligence. I hope she sues the hell out of Mcps. The Superitendent is a callous jerk who I'm now certain tried to cover this up. He's gotta go. The whole thing is sickening.

He's a complete embarrassment.

[Anonymous]

For those of you who were in the meeting, were parents allowed to ask questions? If so, I'm curious as to what those questions were and what kind of responses the Superintendent and his team gave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach in Virginia and I can tell you there absolutely is adult males in class with 14 year olds and here is the reason why (at least in FCPS)

FCPS can't prevent someone from coming to a high school if they are under 18. There are tons of newcomer ESOL students who are 17. FCPS has a 4 year path to graduation. The first year the 17 soon to be 18 year old will not be in classes with non ESOL students. Same thing with their 2nd year. However their junior year they will take team taught Algebra, Biology and World History 1, which are all freshman classes. At this time the student will be turning 20 years old. If the student failed a year they are 21.

Since the classes are team taught half the kids are ESOL and the other half are general Ed (freshman). Almost every class has a 20 year old male who is a short distance or sitting next to a 14 year old girl. In some cases it's a 21 year old man next to 14 years. Most th kids are great but we definitely have gang members in these classes recruiting freshman. Nothing we can do about it though.

If you don't want your 13/14 year old children in classes with 20-21 year old men make sure they sign up for honors classes.

Any MCPS teachers willing to describe how it works here?

[jsteele]

Please remember that this forum is for discussion of school issues. If you want to post about the political or immigration-related aspects of this crime, please post in this thread instead:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/628498.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who were in the meeting, were parents allowed to ask questions? If so, I'm curious as to what those questions were and what kind of responses the Superintendent and his team gave.

Also wondering this. Did they entertain questions?

Also, there was supposed to be a rep there from MCPD. What did he have to say?

Insight on what changes the school might make in it's security protocol?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Please remember that this forum is for discussion of school issues. If you want to post about the political or immigration-related aspects of this crime, please post in this thread instead:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/628498.page

They say men are more prone to suffer from tunnel vision. It comes from their hunter days having to focus only on his target, and bring home the meat to feed his family.

Women tend to have better ability to see the "whole" picture. Just sharing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who were in the meeting, were parents allowed to ask questions? If so, I'm curious as to what those questions were and what kind of responses the Superintendent and his team gave.

Also wondering this. Did they entertain questions?

Also, there was supposed to be a rep there from MCPD. What did he have to say?

Insight on what changes the school might make in it's security protocol?

Some officials should step down!

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Please remember that this forum is for discussion of school issues. If you want to post about the political or immigration-related aspects of this crime, please post in this thread instead:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/628498.page

They say men are more prone to suffer from tunnel vision. It comes from their hunter days having to focus only on his target, and bring home the meat to feed his family.

Women tend to have better ability to see the "whole" picture. Just sharing.

Thanks, maybe post that observation in the Relationship forum.

[Anonymous]

Ok...so on the safety issue...how do we make sure something like this can't happen again? Is it even possible? Aren't there always going to be little nooks and crannies somewhere in the school where things could happen?? (Note, this is not a distraction post...this is in addition to my concern about 18 yr old unknown characters in the freshman class). Just wondering what could be done, other than a school on full time lockdown?

[Anonymous]

I am late to this thread.

What is the age of consent in Maryland? Can a 14 year old consent? I do not think so, but I haven't check. Even if she did consent, and I have my doubts, it is still statutory rape.

This whole thing is tragic on so many levels - sex should not happen in schools, should never be non-consensual, and certainly, the combination of the two impacts both the victim unspeakably and renders other children insecure about going to school.

I hope that this is figured out and the guilty punished.

As for the undocumented status of the suspects, it's not relevant to the security of students in school. The undocumented part is not the school system's problem to solve.

Saying that if they had been deported or prevented from illegally entering the country is like saying if they had found a place to live in a different county MCPS would have to be dealing with this.

If we actually had enough immigration judges and immigration attorneys to allow hearings to happen in a matter of days and not years, the suspect would like already be back in his home country, along with many other illegal aliens who committed no other crime.