Anonymous wrote:If ACPS is hiding rape incidents in our schools, it’s safe to assume other school systems behave the same way.

Just how many rapes are happening?

And what other dangerous crimes are occurring that aren't being reported?

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Anonymous wrote:The Post story and the ACPS statement to them (but still crickets when it comes to addressing the incident with parents and the community).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/19/minnie-howard-sexual-assault-alexandria-school/

What a cop-out by ACPS. They claim they can't announce it because they can't disclose the names of juvenile offenders. I don't think parents are asking for names -- they just want to know if an incident occurred.

Why didn’t the police announce either? It should have been part of the daily crime report.

If ACPS is hiding rape incidents in our schools, it’s safe to assume other school systems behave the same way.

Just how many rapes are happening?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Post story and the ACPS statement to them (but still crickets when it comes to addressing the incident with parents and the community).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/19/minnie-howard-sexual-assault-alexandria-school/

What a cop-out by ACPS. They claim they can't announce it because they can't disclose the names of juvenile offenders. I don't think parents are asking for names -- they just want to know if an incident occurred.

Exactly.

Anonymous wrote:The Post story and the ACPS statement to them (but still crickets when it comes to addressing the incident with parents and the community).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/19/minnie-howard-sexual-assault-alexandria-school/

What a cop-out by ACPS. They claim they can't announce it because they can't disclose the names of juvenile offenders. I don't think parents are asking for names -- they just want to know if an incident occurred.

Anonymous wrote:The Post story and the ACPS statement to them (but still crickets when it comes to addressing the incident with parents and the community).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/19/minnie-howard-sexual-assault-alexandria-school/

The system is failing that girl at every juncture. It is very upsetting. Can you imagine how it must feel to be her? Raped and then told "no, dear, it didn't happen" and then to have to see her rapist every day at school? How horrible.

The Post story and the ACPS statement to them (but still crickets when it comes to addressing the incident with parents and the community).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/19/minnie-howard-sexual-assault-alexandria-school/

Anonymous wrote:How sickening is it that Wilson covered it up? Disgusting. Who covers up the rape of a 14 year old girl????

Disgusting but not surprising. He has smarmy low class liar written all over him. Just look at how he treated those blind people and that had a huge public paper trail. Do you think he would have ANY moral compunction to tell the truth about some poor girl who was raped and there was no public notice? What a loser he is.

Anonymous wrote:How sickening is it that Wilson covered it up? Disgusting. Who covers up the rape of a 14 year old girl????

x1000 Completely disgusting.

“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason… Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”–Frederick Douglass

How sickening is it that Wilson covered it up? Disgusting. Who covers up the rape of a 14 year old girl????

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Anonymous wrote:Parents should be made aware of what happened the day it happens. Who cares if the details aren't all ironed out - at least give a brief overview. "A student was attacked. The attacker has been suspended. The investigation continues."

I don't care who did it or where it happened or why it may have happened... I just want to know IT DID HAPPEN!

Also, the person who attacks should be kicked out of school. No in-person for them.

This is why we need the Clery Act for K-12 schools:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clery_Act

Universities were notorious for covering up crimes on campus to make the school look good. This forced them to report them, basically the day they happened.

Are schools not required to report crime now? I didn't know that. Thank you for the link.

K-12 schools are not required to report crimes on campus. We're in MCPS and a few years ago, there was an alleged gang rape of a student in the bathroom, during school hours. The public learned about it only after the police department (who is very good about reporting on incidents) announced it, and then MCPS scrambled to get a letter out to angry parents who learned about it from the news.

That's very scary to hear. I don't care where you are or what school your child goes to: if a crime occurs then it should be reported publicly. We're talking about the safety of children here. It should be a nationwide requirement that schools report crime data and that schools report "alleged" crimes to parents when they occur as well as the resolution. Parents don't need to know names because that harms the victim but parents should know that the crime occurred. How else can we make decisions about how to best keep our children safe?

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Anonymous wrote:The accused was acquitted in a court of law.

Presumably when the girl was hospitalized, a rape kit test was performed. Was it negative?

Are we to assume people are rapist based on accusation, and not conviction?

The school shouldn't wait until the arrest and trial to notify parents or not. They should notify about the incident the day they become aware of it. They can refer to it as an "alleged" event and so on -- but parents should know what's going on in their school.

+1 I absolutely agree. Especially for a crime so egregious. This wasn't a fight in the hallway. It was a rape. Parents need to be informed on the same day.

I hate the first poster above implying she was lying. He would rather defend a rapist than listen to a girl whose rape report was supported by and believed by police officers, police detectives, school officials and prosecutors.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents should be made aware of what happened the day it happens. Who cares if the details aren't all ironed out - at least give a brief overview. "A student was attacked. The attacker has been suspended. The investigation continues."

I don't care who did it or where it happened or why it may have happened... I just want to know IT DID HAPPEN!

Also, the person who attacks should be kicked out of school. No in-person for them.

This is why we need the Clery Act for K-12 schools:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clery_Act

Universities were notorious for covering up crimes on campus to make the school look good. This forced them to report them, basically the day they happened.

Are schools not required to report crime now? I didn't know that. Thank you for the link.

K-12 schools are not required to report crimes on campus. We're in MCPS and a few years ago, there was an alleged gang rape of a student in the bathroom, during school hours. The public learned about it only after the police department (who is very good about reporting on incidents) announced it, and then MCPS scrambled to get a letter out to angry parents who learned about it from the news.

Anonymous wrote:The accused was acquitted in a court of law.

Presumably when the girl was hospitalized, a rape kit test was performed. Was it negative?

Are we to assume people are rapist based on accusation, and not conviction?

The school shouldn't wait until the arrest and trial to notify parents or not. They should notify about the incident the day they become aware of it. They can refer to it as an "alleged" event and so on -- but parents should know what's going on in their school.