http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/montgomery-principal-told-7th-grader-not-to-report-abuse-prosecutor-says/2015/04/01/7fd8e882-d882-11e4-8103-fa84725dbf9d_story.html...“The principal asked for the victim and the mother not to contact Child Protective Services or the police. He told them he did not want to make a big scandal or harm the reputation of the school,” Hagan said in court. “He told them he would take care of it, so that the defendant would not teach there again. And both mother and daughter believed, as a result of that meeting, that the defendant would not teach in Montgomery County public schools again. No report of this crime was made to law enforcement at that time.”...
...Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy said after the hearing that Hagan’s statements were based on conversations that law enforcement officers had with the victim, her mother and the guidance counselor who was serving as a translator for the mother.
“We stand by the statements that were made in court,” McCarthy said...
Thursday, April 2, 2015
“The principal asked for the victim and the mother not to contact Child Protective Services or the police. He told them he did not want to make a big scandal or harm the reputation of the school,”
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Was the subject principal promoted for that decision?
ReplyDelete“I think that was a mistake ... moving forward, we've got to do a better job,"
ReplyDeleteMontgomery County State's Attorney John McCarthy said . . .
More like 'Up a river without a paddle.'
And why can't they name the principal? If they are retired, it's not going to harm them to come clean.
ReplyDeleteGotta protect all their own in the old boys network. That carpet is looking awful lumpy after its had so much swept under it
It's not going to harm the principal, period!
DeleteThe principal has immunity from prosecution due to a "legal technicality."
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The real question here is why is Maryland one of, if not the only, state in the country that does not have criminal penalties for mandated reports who fail to report abuse? ...and before someone says there was new legislation proposed this year would have added penalties...read the bill more closely, it was so convoluted and so limited in it's scope it would have made the situation worse. We need a clean and straightforward law here in Maryland, one that adds criminal penalties for those who fail to report their suspicions of abuse & neglect. Other states have them, why don't we?
ReplyDeleteSadly, there is no one in the state of Maryland that is willing to answer that question.
DeleteThey proposed a solution
ReplyDeleteAnd reached a resolution
By invoking convolution
That voids prosecution.