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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKicked out of high school for 'public lewdness' after reporting rape
TOMBALL, TexasWhen Rachel Bradshaw-Bean claimed she had been raped in the band room of her high school in Texas, school officials sprang into actionand kicked her out of school.
"I felt like a criminal," she said, describing the December 2010 incident in her first extended interview on the crisis and aftermath. Accused of "public lewdness," she was sent to a special school for students with discipline problems, along with the boy she said had assaulted her. "I saw him there all the time," she said.
It's not an isolated incident. The events at Henderson High School in East Texas demonstrate the obstacles girls sometimes face when reporting sexual violence in schools. "High schools across the country are failing to live up to their responsibility to address sexual assault and harassment," said Neena Chaudhry, an attorney with the National Women's Law Center, a nonprofit advocacy group in Washington, D.C. "There's no excuse."
Bradshaw-Bean and her family fought back, sparking a Department of Education probe into whether the school had violated Title IX, the federal law prohibiting gender discrimination in education. Under the law, schools must follow specific rules when a student reports sexual violence; those rules include launching an internal investigation separate from any police inquiry. Henderson High School relied solely on a police investigation that deemed the sex consensual.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/23/21795266-kicked-out-of-high-school-for-public-lewdness-after-reporting-rape?lite
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Kicked out of high school for 'public lewdness' after reporting rape (Original Post)
spanone
Dec 2013
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Orrex
(63,225 posts)1. That'll teach her not to get raped
sibelian
(7,804 posts)2. Absolutely horrible story!
The poor woman. There's not much in the report what actually happened to the perp.
THIS is why women don't report rape.
At least she's got some kind of life back now, I guess.
:/
Squinch
(51,021 posts)3. And still we hear among our compatriots, "What rape culture?"