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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes, there are horrible situations that have no clean solutions. Based on 41 pages of some valid and some invalid posts, this would appear to be one of them.

A child who claims to have been sexually assaulted deserves to be believed and assumed to be telling the truth.  That means that when the kid expresses anything that sets off alarms, all appropriate authorities should be notified and investigations should commence. Any accused should be interviewed, any evidence should be collected and analyzed and any information helpful in the prosecution an offender should be utilized.

However, if there is a delay in reporting, while totally understandable from the victim, the process is complicated.  Evidence disappears, details are less clear, memories fade.

In this case, it is possible that the schools and the authorities did what they could with the information present and still had no legal authority to do anything substantive.

The school cannot interview let alone expel nameless students. While the school should absolutely have cameras in public spaces, it’s unclear if they did. If not, or if the delay in reporting eliminated the utility of the cameras, that is not a consideration.

There are multiple thresholds that, in my opinion, need to be hit. First, if the school is going to send an email to all parents saying that an incident of this nature occurred, they need some degree of corroboration or confidence, which they did not have.  If the police are going conduct a full investigation and ultimately prosecute, they need evidence, which they did not have.

The situation is horrible but sometimes situations are horrible. It doesn’t make the school, the cops, the parents or random kids culpable. [/quote]

Even if they did have cameras, is the data going to be available 3 months later?  Most is not saved beyond x time frame unless an incident is reported. [/quote]

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