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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m glad the parents took the step of sending a letter to the community because maybe it will lead to some new information.  And I understand they feel let down by the school and law-enforcement.  Their number one concern is their child as it would be for any of us.  Yet, amidst the sadness I have for what happened to this boy, and my anger at the perpetrators, and my frustration that no suspects were identified, I’m also left with a sense of dismay by the people in this thread that think that somehow the school has some great culpability and malfeasance. With a lack of justice, people think that somebody has to go down for this and that somehow it should be GDS and the HOS, and I think that’s just wrong.  The school was told not to interfere with a law enforcement investigation.  And the protection of privacy laws cannot just be waived. It’s a terrible situation, but that’s reality, folks.  [/quote]

Utter bollocks. [/quote]

At the end of the day, we simply don't know what happened. We know what was alleged to have happened. You can believe the victim and also acknowledge that the story has a lot of holes in it. What I find interesting here is that a few families in the grades in question have chimed in here to say that they are comfortable with the process and outcome. [/quote]

I don't think that we have the complete story and I don't think we should have the complete story. We have the general outline, which is disturbing enough, without the details. We don't know what holes exist or don't exist.

I believe that something happened to the victim. I believe that the victim doesn't know who attacked him. I believe that there is no evidence to what happened, which makes it hard for the Police to charge anyone or figure out what happened.

I don't think there is much that the school could do. I don't believe for a second that the school sending out an email 6 months ago would cause anyone with information to come forward or the attackers to confess. I don't think the parents email is generating any leads. If there are people who have information, then they should have come forward without an email from anyone. The attackers were not going to come forward on their own or after the email.

I am not sure what people actually think would happen here.

The only way to have a case in situation like these is to report it immediately and allow for evidence to be collected at the time. Waiting is never useful because the evidence is going to quickly disappear. The victim was 11. We don't know why they didn't report earlier, although we can come up with a ton of reasons. The long delay made any investigation challenging. [/quote]

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