A CMS student reported being sexually assaulted. Then she was suspended.
[North Carolina]
A sophomore student at Hawthorne Academy High School was suspended late last month after reporting being sexually assaulted by a male classmate.
The female sophomore student said she reported the sexual assault to school officials after sitting through a Title IX education class at the beginning of the school year.
School officials alerted police to the report. CMPD investigated and ultimately pressed charges against a minor for sexual battery as a result of the female student’s report, a CMPD spokesman confirmed.
Despite the charges by police, school administrators at Hawthorne Academy High School accused the female student of filing a false report and suspended her.
The girl’s outraged mother called WBTV’s Chief Investigative Reporter Nick Ochsner whose ongoing investigation has shined a light on Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ handling of reported rapes and sexual assaults.
https://www.wbtv.com/2021/11/01/cms-student-reported-being-sexually-assaulted-then-she-was-suspended/
When the reporter asked the board members about this - they all refused to answer:
So WBTV Chief Investigative Reporter Nick Ochsner showed up to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center ahead of a public meeting of the school board on Tuesday.
When Ochsner caught up with Marshall, she wouldn’t answer his questions.
“I don’t have any information about it,” Marshall said, despite having received an email the night before with a link to the story.
Board chairwoman Elyse Dashew also refused to comment, first saying she didn’t comment on student matters and, later, asking a security officer to escort her out of the public meeting room and through the hallway in an effort to avoid facing further questions.
“How does that square with what you said just a few months ago about wanting students to report and feel safe?” Ochsner asked Dashew of her refusal to comment on the student who was suspended after reporting being sexually assaulted.
“Thank you,” Dashew responded. “You are not the person that I would convey that message to, so thank you very much.
When a reporter tried to ask De La Jara questions about whether she thought it was appropriate for the Hawthorne Academy student to be suspended after reporting being sexually assaulted, she said she needed to eat lunch.
“I’m going to have my lunch,” she said, as a reporter asked questions.
Eventually, De La Jara left the room where salads had been laid out for school board members, walked through a hallway and ducked into a bathroom to avoid further questions.
https://www.wbtv.com/2021/11/02/cms-board-members-wont-answer-questions-about-student-suspended-after-reporting-sexual-assault/
Transparency in action? The boy was charged. And this is what happens to the girl? Very strange upsetting story
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