Asst. Principal Promoted After Special Needs Student Used as Rape "Bait"

[KamaAina]

http://gawker.com/asst-principal-promoted-after-special-needs-student-us-1636746428

In 2010, a teacher's aide and the assistant principal at Sparkman Middle School in Huntsville, Alabama carried out a plan to use a special needs student—a 14-year-old girl—as "bait" to catch another special needs student who was sexually violent. The plan failed, and the 14-year-old girl was raped in the school's bathroom. Earlier this year, that assistant principal got promoted.

The Huntsville Times reports that despite being accused by the Justice Department of "deliberate indifference," all of the administrators who oversaw the rape bait plot have kept their jobs, and the assistant principal, Jeanne Dunaway, got promoted to principal at another school in the district. The teacher's aide, June Simpson, was placed on leave and later resigned....

Here's how the plot went down, according to the Justice Department brief:

Simpson and (the girl) ... went to Vice-Principal Dunaway's office, where Simpson told Dunaway about her plan to use (the girl) as bait to catch (the boy). Dunaway did not respond with any advice or directive.

(The girl) left Dunaway's office, found (the boy) in the hallway, and agreed to meet him for sex. (The boy) told (the girl) to go to the sixth grade boys' bathroom and she complied. No teachers were in the bathroom to intervene, and (the boy) sodomized (the girl).

P.S. Dear Gawker, you know I love you, but you've got to stop putting brackets in text. DU software thinks they're HTML, so I had to go through and replace every last one with parens.

[uppityperson]

1. wtf is this line about? No, and argh

For her part, Dunaway testified that the girl "was responsible for herself once she entered the bathroom."

[KamaAina]

2. Probably weapons-grade CYA