'One time at band camp': Huge payment after girl sexually violated on bus

[Elderberry]

WND July 9, 2023

'Schools do not get one free rape'

A Virginia school district has paid a settlement of nearly $600,000 after a student charged she was sexually violated on a school bus during a band trip – for the way the school district reacted to the incident.

A lawyer not involved in the case said had the result ended up the other way, schools nationwide could have used the precedent that would have made it virtually impossible for them to be held responsible for failing to protect children.

The report comes from the Daily Wire, which explained the recent settlement of $587,000 came after the Supreme Court declined to intervene.

The report said Shatter the Silence, a group that has called attention to the school district’s handling of sexual abuse, welcomed news of the settlement.

"We’re pleased that Jane Doe finally got some form of justice,” the group said in a statement to the Daily Wire. “It only took fighting FCPS and its rape defense lawyers at Hunton Andrews Kurth in every level of the judiciary."

The ruling said the assault was by another student and while there was no previous "infraction," the law is clear "that a school may be held liable when it makes a student vulnerable to sexual harassment by their peers, such as by failing to respond appropriately after learning of an initial incident of sexual assault."

That opinion pointedly said, "In other words, schools do not get ‘one free rape.'"

More: https://www.wnd.com/2023/07/one-time-band-camp-huge-payment-girl-sexually-violated-bus/

[PeteS in CA]

From https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-district-pays-600k-to-settle-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-after-scotus-declines-to-hear-argument-that-could-give-schools-one-free-rape "

A Northern Virginia public school district shelled out nearly $600,000 to a girl who alleged that the school district mocked her after she reported a sexual assault, according to a May settlement obtained by The Daily Wire.

Fairfax County Public Schools had initially pledged to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court, where if it prevailed, it would have set a precedent making it difficult for school officials to be held responsible for failing to protect children from sexual harassment. The National School Boards Association, the group that notoriously called for anti-terrorist statutes to be deployed against conservative parents, joined the effort by writing a “friend of the court” brief, while 24 women’s and human rights groups filed briefs on the opposing side.

The case stemmed from a 2018 incident in which a 16-year-old student at Oakton High School alleged that she was sexually violated by a classmate on a school bus during a band trip. Her lawsuit said that a security guard asked if her parents planned to take legal action, and “told Doe that if she went to court she would lose, it would be a waste of money, and ‘the most that could happen to [Assailant] is being charged with battery.’”A Northern Virginia public school district shelled out nearly $600,000 to a girl who alleged that the school district mocked her after she reported a sexual assault, according to a May settlement obtained by The Daily Wire.

Fairfax County Public Schools had initially pledged to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court, where if it prevailed, it would have set a precedent making it difficult for school officials to be held responsible for failing to protect children from sexual harassment. The National School Boards Association, the group that notoriously called for anti-terrorist statutes to be deployed against conservative parents, joined the effort by writing a “friend of the court” brief, while 24 women’s and human rights groups filed briefs on the opposing side.

The case stemmed from a 2018 incident in which a 16-year-old student at Oakton High School alleged that she was sexually violated by a classmate on a school bus during a band trip. Her lawsuit said that a security guard asked if her parents planned to take legal action, and “told Doe that if she went to court she would lose, it would be a waste of money, and ‘the most that could happen to [Assailant] is being charged with battery.’”

The lawsuit was over how the school district handled the report of the assault, not over failing to prevent it. Fairfax County schools are SCUM, and this is not the only example of their scumminess.

[mountaineer]

No one with children should live in Fairfax or Louden County. What a hellhole.