Special needs student, 14, raped in Alabama school bathroom after teacher told her to act as bait in bid to catch sexual predator

Mindblowing. Infuriating. Heartbreaking...WTF is wrong with these adults?!


A 14-year-old special needs student was allegedly raped after a teacher convinced her to act as bait in a bid to catch a school's sexual predator.
The girl was said to have become involved in the plan after faculty members at Sparkman Middle School in Toney, Alabama, received complaints that a boy had been luring classmates into bathrooms and asking them for sex.
Despite the constant allegations of sexual misconduct, he could not be punished because he had not been 'caught in the act'.
Therefore a teacher asked the young girl to meet him in the bathroom but would rush in before anything could happen, according to court documents.

A vice principal at Sparkman Middle School in Toney, Alabama, asked a girl to act as bait so they could catch a sexual predator in the act
The plan took a horrifying turn when the suspect asked the girl to meet him in a different bathroom - meaning no one came in to save her.
The girl had allegedly told the school's vice principal Jeanne Dunaway of the plan, but according to court documents, she didn't respond.

In the aftermath of the alleged rape in January 2010, when a lawsuit was filed against the school, one vice principal claimed that the girl was responsible for herself when she went into the bathroom.
Another, according to the documents, said that they 'weren't sure whether she consented' to the alleged assault.
About a week before the suspected attack vice principals Dunaway and Teresa Terrell received a complaint that the boy had touched a female student inappropriately and was assigned in-school suspension, according to federal attorneys.

About a week before the alleged rape vice principals Jeanne Dunaway and Teresa Terrell received a complaint that the boy had touched a female student inappropriately. They both still work at the school
A few days later, June Simpson, a teacher's aide at the Huntsville-area school, told the principal, Ronnie Blair, that the boy had 'repeatedly tried to convince girls to have sex with him in the boys' bathroom on the special needs students' corridor'.
She alleged that he even had sex with one student, according to the brief.
On January 22, the suspected predator approached the victim and asked her for sex, an offer which she had repeatedly refused.
When the girl told Simpson, she encouraged the girl to 'meet (the boy) in the bathroom where teachers could be positioned to 'catch him in the act' before anything happened,' according to the brief.

The girl's attorney Eric Artrip said they had found 'substantial evidence' that his client had been forcibly raped
The girl initially refused, but then agreed, according to her attorney Eric Artrip.
Simpson and the girl went to Dunaway's office to explain the plan, but Dunaway allegedly 'did not respond with any advice or directive'.
The girl left Dunaway's office, found the boy in the hallway, and 'agreed to meet for sex,', the documents state.
But instead of meeting in the boys' bathroom on the special needs students' corridor, the boy told the girl to meet him in the sixth-grade boys' bathroom, in another part of the school.
This meant none of the staff could intervene and stop her from the alleged attack.
The girl's attorney Eric Artrip told CNN: 'We found substantial evidence of a forceful rape, and that's what happened here.
'The idea she consented to this and somehow allowed it to happen is incredible.'
In December a Federal Court threw out claims that the school district violated Title IX of federal law which dictates how schools must respond to allegations of sexual harassment.
The Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education filed an amicus brief Wednesday supporting her family's federal lawsuit against the Madison County School Board in Alabama.
It states that using a child as 'rape bait' clearly violates Title IX'.
It adds: 'School administrators knew the student's extensive history of sexual and violent misconduct and were alerted to the substantial risk he posed.'
The school's faculty are appealing the state civil suits.
One of the vice principals has now been promoted to a principal at a nearby elementary school.
The teacher involved in setting up the plan has resigned.






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Re: Special needs student, 14, 'raped in Alabama school bathroom after teacher told her to act as bait in bid to catch sexual predator

Is this for real?? The school staff just decided to do this without police involvement???

If so, they should all be fired, forbidden from working with children ever again, and brought up on criminal charges.

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Re: Special needs student, 14, raped in Alabama school bathroom after teacher told her to act as bait in bid to catch sexual predator

If this happened to my kid, that teacher would be wise to move far, far away. I don't know what I would do after hearing this news.

Re: Special needs student, 14, raped in Alabama school bathroom after teacher told her to act as bait in bid to catch sexual predator

Re: Special needs student, 14, raped in Alabama school bathroom after teacher told her to act as bait in bid to catch sexual predator

Horrible

Re: Special needs student, 14, raped in Alabama school bathroom after teacher told her to act as bait in bid to catch sexual predator

Special needs student, 14, raped in Alabama school bathroom after teacher told her to act as bait in bid to catch sexual predator

OMG what is wrong with people?!

A teacher has a undergrad and grad degree and is a mandated reporter and yet still comes up with this idea to play police and put a 14yo special needs student in danger?! Wtf. I can't even anymore with people.

Re: Special needs student, 14, raped in Alabama school bathroom after teacher told her to act as bait in bid to catch sexual predator

Does this "sexual predator" have special needs? I cannot possibly understand why the school's hands would be tied in diciplining him. There must be something significantly lacking from this story. I am disgusted and horrified by this whole situation. Resigned? How about child endangerment? How about criminal activity? If it was my kid, I might just turn into a a stalker.....

Re: Special needs student, 14, raped in Alabama school bathroom after teacher told her to act as bait in bid to catch sexual predator

'special needs' are irrelvant -
Well, not irrelevant, it makes it worse ........howver, even if this were not a 'special needs' 14 year old girl ..........14 YEAR OLD GIRLS SHOULD NOT BE USED AS BAIT FOR SEXUAL PREDATORS .........Hello ?? !!! Is this not common knowledge?
This wasn't a 23 year old police office posing as a teenager ......this was an ACTUAL UNDER AGE TEENAGER ..........

These morons should be in jail !!!

Re: Special needs student, 14, raped in Alabama school bathroom after teacher told her to act as bait in bid to catch sexual predator

Special needs student, 14, raped in Alabama school bathroom after teacher told her to act as bait in bid to catch sexual predator

Way to think logically and follow a chain of command. Idiots. What made them think they could handle this on their own? I'm furious!

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Re: Special needs student, 14, raped in Alabama school bathroom after teacher told her to act as bait in bid to catch sexual predator

This story is DISGUSTING and quite disturbing. Did this teacher ever stop to think she has no scarred this child for life? This child has to live what has been done to her


I am so done with trusting the human race.....