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<p>This is one of the few news stories that leaves me virtually speechless.</p>
<p>Absolutely unbelievable. He should be in prison.</p>
<p>Among the most egregious acts was the Court decision:</p>
<p>“The federal court disagreed and ruled the teen had no free speech rights because cheerleaders act as agents of the school–“mouthpieces” is the word the court used–not as an individual students.”</p>
<p>In other words, the SCHOOL was cheering for the rapist, the cheerleaders being merely agents.</p>
<p>Unbelievable!</p>
<p>A friend sent me info on this a couple of weeks ago. I was also stunned. While the courts did her wrong, since the student is 18 and I think she and/or her parents should run for the school board and then throw the stupid superintendent on his ass in the street if there’s any credibility to what I’ve read.</p>
<p>is he guilty of rape?</p>
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Unbelievable - there’s something wrong with these people.</p>
<p>The school sided with the rapist not once, but twice. First, by not suspending him when he already plead guilty, and second, when they punished the victim for not participating in the cheer!</p>
<p>This is almost unbelieveable.
Why the cheerleading squad leader want to kick the cheerleader off the team?
Why did the family have to pay costs?</p>
<p>The article doesn’t mention which school or town.</p>
<p>I’d find this unbelievable, except…it’s so believable and typical and sad.</p>
<p>Probably if she’d have cheered, they would have used that in some sort of lawsuit against her to “prove” she hadn’t actually been “harmed”…</p>
<p>Love that the school is billing her family 45,000 dollars for the lawsuit, too. It is seemingly endless. Even the onion wouldn’t make this up. Did you see the cheer she was supposed to shout?</p>
<p>*Probably if she’d have cheered, they would have used that in some sort of lawsuit against her to “prove” she hadn’t actually been “harmed”…</p>
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<p>that is such an excellent point.</p>
<p>If this school or rapist were anywhere near me, they’d be taking me to jail soon, too. Not only is rape the worst thing one human being can do to one other, the school’s decision to side with the rapist is indefensible. Stories like this are the most angering there are. This is a broken system.</p>
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This is ****ing outrageous. </p>
<p>I’ll take the consequences for saying that; no other language is strong enough. The trauma of rape was apparently an insufficient challenge in this girl’s life. Apparently the lawsuit against a school that punished a student for not cheering for her admitted RAPIST is so frivolous that her family must shoulder the burden of tens of thousands of dollars for the school’s legal fees.</p>
<p>Everyone here needs to contact the ACLU. I hope that this girl is able to recover from the trauma and that things are finally done right by her.</p>
<p>These kids got suspended because of the garbage they posted on Facebook:</p>
<p>[Facebook</a> photos land 11 athletes lengthy suspensions - Prep Rally - High SchoolBlog - Yahoo! Sports](<a href=“http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Facebook-photos-land-11-athletes-lengthy-suspens?urn=highschool-wp2010]Facebook”>http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Facebook-photos-land-11-athletes-lengthy-suspens?urn=highschool-wp2010)</p>
<p>Why was the rapist allowed to continue to play in the first place?</p>
<p>I hate to defend the school, but the first grand jury declined to indict the rapist. So they kept him on the basketball team, and the cheerleader refused to cheer for him. It was later that the second grand jury indicted the rapist, and he pled down to a misdemeanor and a one year suspended sentence. After that, the school did suspend him.</p>
<p>The school was completely wrong to force the girl to cheer for the boy that she said raped her, but they really can’t suspend a boy for rape when the grand jury wouldn’t indict him.</p>
<p>Like most rapes associated with high school and college campuses, the rape was likely pled down to assault (often so that the victims don’t have to testify). (When it happens at colleges, there is often a big settlement on the side.)</p>