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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite 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 girls neck and dragged her around.
WacoTrib.com reports that Levi McCathern, the attorney representing the girls 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 girls 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
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tonyt53
(5,737 posts)1. This makes me absolutely sick.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)2. THis is fucking sickening!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Waco,
they just do not get it. The Stupid really runs deep in that town.
a kennedy
(29,669 posts)4. WHAT THE FAUK IS WRONG WITH THEM???
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)5. Money quote
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
(22,037 posts)12. Probably 2 or 3, actually
Once in the legal system, could the charges possibly escalate to a hate crime?
irisblue
(32,980 posts)6. what the hell?
pandr32
(11,586 posts)7. Good grief!
malaise
(269,024 posts)8. Something is seriously wrong
Who does this to a classmate? Who teaches this fucking hate.
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)9. The parents man
The parents. The bigoted, god-fearin', douche-bag parents. And society in general down there, obviously.
democrank
(11,095 posts)10. Mind-numbingly awful.
That precious child...
csziggy
(34,136 posts)11. If it was just an accident or "playing" why didn't they get her neck treated
From the WacoTrib.com story about this incident:
McCathern said the girls 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
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.
One Black Sheep
(458 posts)13. Waco, Texas
Why am I not surprised.