A southwestern Missouri school district has denied accusations in a federal lawsuit that officials failed to protect a middle-school girl from being raped, calling the lawsuit "frivolous" and saying the girl "neglected to use reasonable means to protect herself."The girl, identified as a 7th grade special education student, was raped twice during the course of two school years, according to the lawsuit filed July 5 against Republic School District in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. The lawsuit was first reported by the Springfield News-Leader newspaper in Missouri Wednesday.
This girl was raped at her middle school in 2009. When her mother reported the incident to the school, school officials decided she'd made up the story and bullied her into recanting. And then they added insult to injury: they actually made her deliver a written apology to her rapist.
And then he raped her again:
The girl returned to the middle school for the 2009-10 school year and tried to avoid the boy, according to the lawsuit. It didn't work. She was sexually assaulted again but didn't tell anyone because she was afraid of being expelled again, her lawyers wrote in the lawsuit. She was allegedly raped a second time Feb. 16, 2010.School officials were notified of the incident and allegedly doubted the girl's claim, saying they'd "already been through this," according to the lawsuit. The girl was also examined and found to have been sexually assaulted. However, she was suspended from school for "disrespectful conduct" and "public display of affection," her lawyers wrote in the lawsuit.
The school district denies all of the family's claims, saying that if anything happened it was the "result of the negligence, carelessness, or conduct of third parties over whom the District Defendants had neither control nor the right to control."
How dare this girl claim to have been raped! Doesn't she know how hurtful and disruptive such accusations can be? How selfish of her not to think of how such an allegation would make her poor rapist feel! And besides, if he did rape her, well, it was her own damn fault.
So her rapist gets an apology, and she gets a suspension for being "disrespectful." Unbelievable.
(h/t The Red Pen)
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