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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 01:04 PM Jun 2016

White boys put rope around black girl’s neck and dragged her while school looked other way: lawsuit


Rope burns on the neck of a 12-year-old girl who was allegedly dragged around by three white boys with a rope (Photo by Levi McCathern)

shocking lawsuit this week alleges that officials at the Live Oak Classical School in Waco, Tx. looked the other way after three white boys put a rope around a 12-year-old black girl’s neck and dragged her around.

WacoTrib.com reports that Levi McCathern, the attorney representing the girl’s family, alleges that the girl was continuously bullied even as school officials downplayed her treatment. The $3 million lawsuit alleges negligence, gross negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress against the school.

The alleged incident took place during a school field trip to the Germer Ranch. The girl was watching some of her fellow students play on a rope swing when she suddenly felt a rope go around her neck. She subsequently slipped and fell to the ground while three white boys pulled on the rope, McCathern alleges.

“It looked like somebody had ripped her neck apart and stitched it back together,” the girl’s mother, Sandy Rougely, told The Dallas Morning News.

More here: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/white-boys-put-rope-around-black-girls-neck-and-dragged-her-while-school-looked-other-way-lawsuit/


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White boys put rope around black girl’s neck and dragged her while school looked other way: lawsuit (Original Post) Playinghardball Jun 2016 OP
This makes me absolutely sick. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #1
THis is fucking sickening! octoberlib Jun 2016 #2
Waco, Wellstone ruled Jun 2016 #3
WHAT THE FAUK IS WRONG WITH THEM??? a kennedy Jun 2016 #4
Money quote exboyfil Jun 2016 #5
Probably 2 or 3, actually PJMcK Jun 2016 #12
what the hell? irisblue Jun 2016 #6
Good grief! pandr32 Jun 2016 #7
Something is seriously wrong malaise Jun 2016 #8
The parents man Glamrock Jun 2016 #9
Mind-numbingly awful. democrank Jun 2016 #10
If it was just an accident or "playing" why didn't they get her neck treated csziggy Jun 2016 #11
Waco, Texas One Black Sheep Jun 2016 #13

exboyfil

(17,857 posts)
5. Money quote
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 01:23 PM
Jun 2016

“It sounds like he may have pushed on the back of her leg to make her leg buckle, which is something the kids sometimes do,” Buras wrote in one email. “Rarely is that done out of meanness but more out of a desire for sport.”

Added a zero to the end of any settlement/judgement.

PJMcK

(21,916 posts)
12. Probably 2 or 3, actually
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 03:20 PM
Jun 2016

Once in the legal system, could the charges possibly escalate to a hate crime?

Glamrock

(11,780 posts)
9. The parents man
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 01:58 PM
Jun 2016

The parents. The bigoted, god-fearin', douche-bag parents. And society in general down there, obviously.

csziggy

(34,119 posts)
11. If it was just an accident or "playing" why didn't they get her neck treated
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 02:05 PM
Jun 2016

From the WacoTrib.com story about this incident:

McCathern said the girl’s mother was not notified of the injuries and discovered them when her daughter got off the bus in Waco. She immediately took her daughter to an emergency room for medical treatment, where police were notified of the injury, according to the lawsuit.
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/education/family-of-injured-live-oak-classical-school-student-sues-school/article_1dcf47a7-10aa-5dc5-9cbc-76ff20b4c4cf.html


If it were truly an innocent event the school personnel were negligent in not getting the girl's neck treated. The neck location could have serious damage to the underlying structures, especially if the story told were true, that she fell. At the very least that kind of rope burn is a painful injury and is prone to infection. She should have been taken to a doctor for treatment right away - if the school couldn't do that, her parents should have been notified so they could.
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