Police Investigate Student Who Allegedly Pulled Girls’ Pants Down

[The Straight Story]

MOUNT GILEAD, Ohio - A Cardington-Lincoln High School student was under suspension on Wednesday after being accused of pulling down the pants of five of his female classmates.

According to district superintendent Brian Petrie, a parent contacted the high school principal after his daughter said that a classmate pulled her pants down in the hallway during a class change.

Petrie said that the school investigated, and the student was disciplined, 10TV’s Tanisha Mallett reported.

The investigation was turned over to Cardington police officials, who said that their investigation uncovered similar allegations from four more female students.

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/01/18/mount-gilead-police-investigate-student-who-allegedly-pulled-girls-pants-down.html

[Odin2005]

1. He should be charged with sexual assault.

[Initech]

14. Really. WTF is wrong with some people?

[hunter]

2. Can't even count the times I was harassed like that in middle and high school.

Nobody ever called the police.

I was a weird kid and a very reactive victim. Sometimes I was blamed for causing the trouble.

The serial pants-puller needs to be expelled from school and home life investigated by social workers.

[Aerows]

5. Just like me

VERY reactive victim. Blamed for causing the trouble, when it's some idiot that precipitates it because you are a tad different than they are.

I had similar experiences.

[redqueen]

6. But you're a male...

society doesn't rate harassment of males on the same scale, which is outrageous (e.g. different reactions when boys are molested by adult women, male rape victims being just about invisible, that is if they're not in jail in which case their being assaulted is sickeningly cheered, etc.)

Just another example of the many lovely gifts bestowed on us based on our membership in whatever gender box we've been assigned.

[Aerows]

8. Indeed it is outrageous

Homosexuals are pretty much harassed no matter what by a certain element in society, and it is irrelevant whether we are male or female.

[redqueen]

10. This is reminding me how

in so many cases where the victims of harassment just happened to be gay, the bullies got a slap on the wrist, and no cops were called. This, despite the fact that in many cases, their assaults were much worse than having pants pulled down.

Homophobia is deeply entrenched in this society.

[Aerows]

11. Oh it is, and

Try having guys expose themselves to you on the bus, day after day, because you really don't understand your own sexuality, and wonder why in the hell some guy is trying to show you his penis all of the time when you aren't even remotely interested. You don't say anything, because he isn't touching you, he's across in an entirely different seat, and you just don't know how to react.

GOD. I rode the bus for an HOUR every day to school until I started getting dropped off at the family business.

[hunter]

17. Ugh. The bus.

I'd ride my bike 8 miles to school rather than ride the bus.

Then they'd vandalize my bike, so I'd park it off campus at a shopping center and walk the rest of the way.

[Aerows]

18. I can't believe I'm actually in tears

I haven't even thought about this in ages, yet here I am, a few decades later, and tears are in my eyes.

For me, and for you.

[Initech]

15. I was the same way.

I was constantly bullied and harassed even outside of school. There were no inevtigations, no arrests, no trials... I don't get what causes this type of behavior and that the parents even encourage it.

[Aerows]

19. I know

It's covered up when it is "the cool kid" in a bad school. I found myself with tears in my eyes because even though it wasn't quite so bad for me, since I just wasn't emotionally there all of the time, it makes me sad that anybody has to suffer. I got tough when I was in a different school, but that is only because my parents had the resources to put me in a different school.

What if they hadn't?

[bluestateguy]

3. I'm OK with criminal charges for him (as a juvenile)

Five times is not a one time or incidental lapse of judgement, and a high school boy should know that that is wrong.

I am, however, uncomfortable when I hear similar stories of elementary school or jr. high kids being criminally charged for such things. That I think is not really warranted.

[Aerows]

4. I went to a "Christian" school in the eighth grade

It was a very small, fundamentalist sort of school that taught me nothing of value, but let's not go there.

Anyway, there were two boys that not only did that, one big girl shoved me and a boy into a room. She was huge, and I couldn't get the door open. He groped me. I finally got out, and raised HOLY HELL about it, as my parents had taught me to do. Oh, there were conferences, all of that mess, attempting to blame ME for these poor young men having "thoughts". Well, they got expelled, but in retrospect, they really should have been charged with assault.

I wasn't the only one, and quite frankly, I was a terrible "victim" to pick because I didn't think it was "cool" in the slightest (see - raised holy hell about it) but there were others, I guess, that might have and who knows what was done to them.

These guys (and the girl that shoved me into the room with the boy forcibly and held me there) should have been charged, because that's the only way to wake some people up that assault isn't okay.

[Blue_Tires]

13. I went to a pretty conservative catholic school

and a couple of students regularly got away with it...of course they were popular football players so the girls took it with a wink and a nod....

[Aerows]

16. This was the same here

I transferred, finally, to an all girls Catholic school, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me considering what I put up with during that year. It was horrible.

I could finally focus on academics, and that solved the problem.

[MineralMan]

7. You'd think a boy in high school would have

outgrown such behavior. Pantsing girls is not cool at all. Expulsion would be about right, along with probation from a sexual assault charge. By high school, this kind of crap is way out of line.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. How old is he?

From an 18 year old, that's serious criminal sexual harassment and needs prosecution, from an 11-year-old, it may just be a prank whose seriousness he doesn't understand and needs to have explained (although even in an 11-year-old, it would ring alarm bells that something might be wrong).

[Ikonoklast]

12. That kid needs to be expelled, and ordered to get counseling.

Behavior of this type is not funny, not acceptable, and definitely not legal in any way.

I would think the school board within their rights to never let this kid back on school grounds again, unless his parents can prove that he has undergone counseling and make them responsible for their minor child's actions.