"A Somerville mother is stunned: How can school officials accuse her 6-year-old son of sexual misconduct and report him to the police? Charges of racism ensue" by James Vaznis Globe Staff, February 20, 2021
When Flavia Peréa’s 6-year-old son left the Albert F. Argenziano School in Somerville on Nov. 12, 2019, his behavior chart was marked green, indicating he’d had a great day. That made the disturbing calls she’d received earlier that day all the more perplexing.
The dean of students had phoned her at work to say a girl told them her son had touched her inappropriately in their first-grade classroom that morning. The dean characterized her son’s alleged conduct as sexual harassment and added, almost as an afterthought, that the school would have to report it to the state.
She mentioned nothing about notifying the police, but a while later, a Somerville detective left a message on Peréa’s voicemail.
Peréa was stunned: How could a child who’d just lost his first tooth be the subject of a police inquiry?
More than a year later, Peréa is still seeking basic information about what happened that day in the first-grade cubby area. She wants to know why school officials rushed to notify authorities, and whether racism influenced their actions: Her son is Black and Latinx; the girl is white.
“They don’t see a little boy. They see a criminal,” said Peréa, a sociology lecturer at Harvard University and director of the Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship. “The first thing they did was call the police.”
School officials have repeatedly defended their actions to Peréa in meetings and in written communications that Peréa shared with the Globe, arguing they were following state rules, but Peréa can see no justification for involving the police. In Massachusetts, children under the age of 12 cannot be charged with a crime, according to state law.
Peréa’s quest for answers, unfolding against the backdrop of a national reckoning over racial injustice, has taken her on an unexpected odyssey into a disturbing world familiar to many older children. It is America’s school-to-prison pipeline, a term describing how schools’ discriminatory approach to discipline and close relationships with police disproportionately steer Black and Latino students toward incarceration.
Law enforcement and DCF never took action against Peréa’s son. The school never disciplined him, and he and the girl finished the year in the same class, yet he now has a paper trail at several powerful governmental agencies: the police department, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, and the state Department of Children and Families, whose intake report from the school system describes the incident as “sexual assault” and her son as the “alleged perpetrator.” Police have refused to share their report with Peréa, citing a state law that limits the release of sexual assault complaints to victims and other authorized representatives.
At the same time, Peréa has received incomplete and conflicting information from the school about what happened between the children. The dean of students said her son touched the girl’s “private parts.” A school employee told DCF he touched the girl’s crotch, according to an intake report, but the classroom teacher told Peréa the girl reported that he had touched her “bum” and pointed to her rear end.
Who taught him that was acceptable behavior?
School officials declined to comment on the matter, citing student privacy laws, but a spokesperson defended the school system’s procedures for handling sexual assault allegations, saying they comply with state and federal reporting requirements, which are designed to protect “the safety of both the victims of alleged serious acts, such as physical or sexual assault, as well as the alleged youth perpetrators, who may themselves be victims in other settings,” but legal experts and social justice advocates say school employees are not required by law to alert DCF about inappropriate touching among very young children — and they certainly shouldn’t be contacting police.
“I find it extremely disturbing that a touch would escalate into a characterization of abuse and criminalized behavior. I don’t understand what the school was thinking,” said Lisa Thurau, founder and executive director of Strategies for Youth, a Cambridge nonprofit that trains law enforcement agencies on how to interact with young children. “Even if they were trying to protect the girl and their own legal exposure, there seems like there are a half dozen other ways to handle this situation that would have been less traumatizing for both students and their families.”
I'm sorry, but there is unwritten rule regarding a personal space barrier that no one is allowed to violate without permission. Case closed.
Of course, with all the $camdemic $afety mea$ures, that shouldn't have been a problem and it's better to nip that kind of behavior in the bud, no?
She said administrators could have, for instance, relied on counseling instead of contacting outside agencies.
That seems to comport with the state’s mandated reporting rules, which require school employees to report cases of suspected child abuse by caregivers to DCF. The rules, however, don’t obligate them to notify DCF about incidents between children who are too young to be sexually aware.
Bringing in law enforcement could have had other implications for Peréa’s son. A police detective warned Peréa the report would wind up in a statewide law enforcement database, Peréa said. It took her more than six months, with help from the state Attorney General’s Office, to determine that it hadn’t.
As unusual as Peréa’s son’s case might sound, it is eerily similar to one in Brockton in 2006 that also raised questions of racial discrimination. An elementary school principal suspended a 6-year-old Black boy for three days for alleged sexual harassment after a classmate accused him of slipping his fingers slightly into the back of her pants.
In a liberal community like Somerville, where city officials refused to take down a Black Lives Matter banner despite pressure from its own police union, Peréa never imagined her son would encounter this sort of treatment, especially at such a young age.
It has been heart-wrenching for her to hear school officials describe her son, who never had any discipline problems, as some kind of sex offender. Her son loves drawing pictures of robots and reading books about dinosaurs, science, and the sea, and he’s always humming a little tune, as if, his mother said, he has a soundtrack in his head.
“What happened to my son is an act of violence,” she wrote on a website she launched, Architecture of Injustice in School, to draw attention to his case and the school-to-prison pipeline. “It is part of a long history of false allegations against Black and Brown men and boys sexually assaulting white girls and women.”
As we head into the New World, roles will be reversed. It will be open season on white women and girls, and white men better watch out!
In digging into the school-to-prison pipeline, Peréa discovered that Somerville schools mirror others nationwide: They seem to treat Black and Latino students differently when they get into trouble. During the 2018-19 school year when the incident involving Peréa’s son occurred, Somerville schools punished Black students nearly four times more often than white students and disciplined Latino students two times more often than their white peers.
Maybe it is deserved. After all, we are being told whitey obeys rules.
Like most Massachusetts communities, Somerville also operates under a memorandum of understanding with local police, specifying their involvement in schools and with misbehaving students. Some community members believe the agreement enables police to step into non-criminal minor infractions — an assertion school officials and police dispute — and are pushing to have it changed.
Just conditioning the kids for a total police state.
Acting Somerville Police Chief Charlie Femino disagreed that his department has any role in fostering a school-to-prison pipeline. “Officers are trained to ... refer to social service, mental health, recovery and other services wherever appropriate to avoid unnecessary arrests and criminalization, especially of persons in need,” he said in a statement.
In raising her concern that her son was treated unfairly, Peréa said she repeatedly encountered defensiveness from school officials who didn’t seem to grasp the potential implications of their actions and tried brushing it off.
The school’s principal told Peréa in a meeting one week after the incident that her son “didn’t do anything wrong” as she explained why the school never disciplined him.
In a letter to Peréa’s attorney, Peter Hahn, the school system’s legal counsel, Rosann DiPietro, said that school officials merely asked the police department’s school liaison to review the matter, not to charge the boy. She also said school officials never characterized the incident as sexual abuse or her son as an abuser when notifying DCF, even though the welfare agency’s report indicated otherwise.
“The district disputes your assertion that a massive mistake was made,” DiPietro wrote, and when Peréa asked the School Committee for help, Carrie Normand, then chairperson, rejected Peréa’s request for an independent investigation and an overhaul of school policies.
“We believe the matter has been addressed in school and that the children have put it behind them,” Normand wrote in a letter to Peréa.
That's what kids do.
She added that the DCF notification would not result in that agency tracking her son — unless DCF received another report about him.
For Peréa, this was cold comfort. If Somerville officials overreacted once, would they do it again?
“It’s been utterly impossible to hold anyone accountable,” Peréa said. “It’s not just a leadership failure; it’s a failure of public institutions.”
Then who needs them, really.
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Chelsea fifth-grader Ashly Mejia Gongora attended class via Zoom from the cafeteria at the Clark Avenue Middle School (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff).
That's right, the disciplinary measure was putting him in corner with mask on(!!).
Now imagine if he had been truant:
"Since the coronavirus first roared into Massachusetts — disrupting businesses, schools, and daily life — reports of potential abuse or neglect of children have dropped by nearly a third. Those required to flag suspected mistreatment to state officials have filed thousands fewer allegations. Reports from school workers plummeted by 75 percent alone. The drop-off has worried state legislators, who fear an untold number of allegations are going undetected, and the situation is prompting them to press a little-known commission to produce a road map for reshaping who is required to notify the Department of Children and Families when they believe a child is in danger. The Mandated Reporter Commission — launched informally more than two years ago and made official in a 2019 law — started its work long before the coronavirus pandemic, which prompted restrictions that made in-person interactions between children and teachers, doctors, and social workers less frequent, but it’s become clear, the panel’s leader said, that the law and its nuanced applications are far more complex than even she realized. Its work has also stirred heated debate within child advocacy circles, where some support a vast expansion of the law and others argue the current statute already spurs frequent unfounded allegations that do little to better protect children. The considerations prompted the commission to scrap a vote earlier this month on potential recommendations ahead of a Dec. 31 deadline......"
God forbid they make a house call.
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"Mass. advocates launch ambitious campaign for publicly funded early education; Sliding fees would limit child care costs to 7 percent of household income" by Stephanie Ebbert Globe Staff, February 16, 2021
Massachusetts lawmakers and advocates plan to unveil a first-in-the-nation campaign to create a universal early education system that would receive public funding like K-12 schools and rein in the exorbitant costs of child care for all families under the ambitious legislation being filed today.
The initiative may sound too good to be true to beleaguered parents, not to mention budget hawks. The sweeping reform could cost hundreds of millions of dollars in each of the first five years of phase-in, according to sponsors who offered no firm price tag or funding stream to pay for it. More modest efforts — like Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s campaign pitch for free preschool for 4-year-olds — were halted by “sticker shock” when the costs came into focus, and the Legislature and governor declined to pick up the tab.
That's why eight years after Walsh’s promises, Boston prekindergarten is still not universal and the Globe's $olution is to build more affordable housing in high-performing school districts.
“Given current budgetary pressures, economic uncertainty, and our current reliance on federal funds to balance the budget, it would be a challenging time for the state to assume these costs,” said Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation president Eileen McAnneny; however, the players promoting the campaign are some of the same business, union and social justice leaders who in 2018 negotiated the “grand bargain” that delivered Massachusetts paid family leave, an annual sales tax holiday, and an elevated minimum wage.
“The pandemic has certainly moved the issue to the top of the business community’s agenda in a way I haven’t seen before,” said JD Chesloff, executive director of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable. Now, he said, “They get it.”
That's happened with a lot of agendas.
They have gotten a big push off the plannedemic, cui bono, and this agenda reeks of communi$m when you really get down to it no matter how good it sounds.
I mean, think about. The state that has lied to you and ruined your livelihood is so concerned about the kids they have destroyed with their insane policies, and now they want to care for the kids (more like kidnap them for sex rings after they turn up CV positive).
Proponents bill the effort as a timely correction for both gender and racial inequities after nearly a year of the pandemic, and wider public awareness of the uneven costs of caregiving. Working mothers have dropped out of the work force en masse over the past year as they shouldered responsibilities for children stuck at home. The fragile child care system that remains relies on a woefully underpaid work force that is almost entirely comprised of women — disproportionately, women of color.
“We need an early education system that works, and the only way that we get to a system that works is if we admit that it takes public money to do it,” said proponent Lauren Birchfield Kennedy, cofounder of Neighborhood Villages, an organization that advocates for child care reform. “We do not presume that a family can pay for a 6-year-old to 18-year-old’s education. . . . That’s what we ask people to do in child care.”
She married into wealth, 'eh?
The premise is that early education should be funded like the rest of the educational system, with public support to make it available to everyone.
Proponents point to several potential sources of revenue, and a newly favorable political environment in D.C. The Biden administration has made child care a focus of its economic stimulus package and is expected to devote unprecedented federal dollars to early education.
So he can sniff 'em, ugh.
On the state level, a legislative commission is already reviewing child care funding structure and Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican, has heeded the industry’s desperate cries for help, offering early educator support as one of the state’s few budget increases last year.
“We’ve seen signals that this is an issue whose time has come,” said Amy O’Leary, director of Early Education for All, a campaign of Strategies for Children, an advocacy and policy organization.
Lewis, who also sponsored paid family and medical leave, said another potential funding source could be the Fair Share Amendment — a 4 percent additional tax on income over $1 million that would generate $2 billion a year for transportation and education. Known as the “millionaire’s tax,” that controversial proposal — whose original iteration was derailed by a lawsuit — was passed by the Legislature in 2019 and a second vote this year would put a Constitutional Amendment on the 2022 ballot.
Why controversial?
The Common Start Coalition is led by Coalition for Social Justice executive director Deb Fastino, who also handled negotiations on paid family leave.
That’s in part because the pandemic has forced corporate leaders to see how essential child care is to the economy, as employees navigate working from home with children. The work-life balance long seen as an individual mother’s problem to figure out is suddenly everyone’s problem, and visible on Zoom.
“Finally we’re seeing the private sector, the business community, understand the importance of this ‘system’ to the economy,” said Mary Jo Meisner, a member of the Boston Women Leaders Network, which endorsed the legislation.
The average cost of child care for an infant in Massachusetts is nearly $21,000, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. A family with an infant and a four-year-old spend over $36,000 a year.
Though free or reduced-cost child care vouchers are available to low-income families now, the state falls far short of meeting the demand for those who qualify......
Keep your kids out of state clutches if you can.
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"Teens rally at State House for youth jobs, juvenile justice, housing stability" by Gal Tziperman Lotan Globe Staff, February 18, 2021
Youths from across Massachusetts held colorful signs on the stairs of the State House Thursday morning and later took to Zoom to demand legislators act to create more jobs for them, improve juvenile justice, stabilize housing costs, and support comprehensive sex education in public schools.
“We’re all here today to make sure our legislators know that they need to prioritize these issues for the youth,” said Princess Willie, a sophomore at North High School in Worcester and a youth organizer with the I Have A Future coalition, who spoke during the afternoon Zoom rally. “We are the future, and we will fight to better the future.”
With the coronavirus vaccine rollout expanding and legislators thinking of what policies they will push when the pandemic is under control, rally organizers said they did not want to return to a status quo riddled with inequities and injustice. On Thursday morning, they took to the State House steps, urging politicians to fund youth jobs and education, and to allocate less money to police in schools.
Wearing masks, they stood under cold, gray skies, holding handmade signs that read “Youth Power” and “Jobs + Education, Not Mass Incarceration,” among other rally signs.
In the afternoon, more than 100 teenagers and young adults took part in the virtual rally to expand on their ideas to change policy. Nisrine Feham, 14, of Boston, spoke about homelessness, gentrification, and housing instability.
Representative Liz Miranda, a Boston Democrat and herself an alumna of youth jobs and empowerment programs, joined the Zoom rally and encouraged the group to keep asking legislators from across the state for change, particularly when they take up the next budget in April.
“We have a wealthy state. We should be providing opportunity to every young person, not only an after school job or a summer job, but access to college and vocational training, housing, and immigration support,” Miranda said. “When we think about economic opportunity, young people need to know that they could be me one day and they can be bigger than me one day.”
She also told the teenagers to remember their own power.
“Sometimes people think that young people, because they can’t vote, don’t have a lot of power,” Miranda said, “but that’s not true because there hasn’t been one movement in history not led by you, not led by young people, and particularly young people of color.”
I think it is disgraceful for "public $ervants" to use children as political tools and props, yet it has been ever thus.
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They have already ordered up an evaluation for the suspect and will be putting the kids up for adoption.
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"A new study finds that teachers may be more important drivers of COVID-19 transmission in schools than students. The paper released Monday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies nine COVID-19 transmission clusters in elementary schools in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta in December and January, That included one cluster where 16 teachers, students and relatives of students at home were infected. In only one of the nine clusters was a student clearly the first documented case, while a teacher was the first documented case in four clusters. In another four, the first case was unclear. Of the nine clusters, eight involved probable teacher-to-student transmission. Two clusters saw teachers infect each other during in-person meetings or lunches, with a teacher then infecting other students. The findings line up with studies from the United Kingdom that found teacher-to-teacher was the most common type of school transmission there, and a German study that found in-school transmission rates were three times higher when the first documented case was a teacher. In some American districts, schools have had to go all-virtual because so many teachers have been exposed to the virus....."
C'mon, would that pretty lady lie to you?
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Time to make your way into the wider world:
"All members of a San Francisco Bay Area school board resigned days after they were heard making disparaging comments about parents at a virtual board meeting they didn’t realize was being broadcast to the public. The four members of Oakley Union Elementary School District Board had stepped down by Friday amid growing outrage that began with the board’s Wednesday meeting. Before the meeting officially began and unaware the public could see and hear them, they used profanity and made jokes about parents just wanting a babysitter or to smoke pot in their home. The incident garnered national attention and widespread condemnation....."
They “deeply regret the earlier comments that were made, and realize it is their responsibility to model the conduct that we expect of our students and staff, and it is their obligation to build confidence in district leadership, and they offer their sincerest apology,” so all is well and they will keep their taxpayer-funded pensions and health benefits.
Thankfully, their single-minded focus is your health and safety as well your children and the University of Southern California expects to reopen campuses this fall, joining the state's major public universities in planning to resume on-campus life curtailed by COVID-19 -- if conditions permit.
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She now believes all student debt should be canceled?
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Has something to do with the trashing of a BC multicultural floor last month, and the whole incident reeks of $elf-$erving false-flaggery (going to get an upgrade to the athletic facility).
"Salem State University has received a $6 million cash donation from alumna Kim Gassett-Schiller and her husband, Apple Fellow Philip Schiller, officials announced last week. The gift is the largest cash donation ever made to one of the state’s nine public universities, Salem State president John Keenan said in a statement. “No words could adequately describe our gratitude to Kim and Philip,” said Keenan, who also thanked the couple for their “decades of generosity” to Salem State. The university will use $5 million of the gift to establish the Viking Completion Grant Endowment to help seniors complete their degrees without having to drop out for financial reasons. The endowment will benefit 50 to 75 seniors each year in perpetuity. “When we learned that some Salem State students, who achieve so much and are so close to graduating, risk dropping out for financial reasons, we had to step up,” said Gassett-Schiller, who was the first in her family to graduate from college when she earned an accounting degree from Salem State in 1983. “This gift will remove that risk and make earning a Salem State degree possible. We hope our gift will inspire others to support our students in any way.” The remaining $1 million will be used to provide services for areas of the college the couple has long supported, including the Center for Academic Excellence and the Harold E. and Marilyn J. Gassett Fitness and Recreation Center, the statement said. Carlos Santiago, the state’s commissioner of higher education, said the donation will help advance the state’s higher education goals. “The student grants funded by the Schillers’ philanthropy will be a key ingredient in our collective efforts to expand success for residents, our economy, and society,” Santiago said."
Takes the guts right out of you, but it's better than being incarcerated at UMass, where AI will decide your course schedule (at least the $port$ teams are playing again).
"While some struggle to get vaccine, colleges and hospitals face a different problem: what to do with surplus doses; Conflicting, ambiguous state guidance creates confusion in vaccine rollout" by Deirdre Fernandes and Kay Lazar Globe Staff, January 27, 2021
Northeastern University had nearly 2,000 doses of precious COVID vaccine sitting in freezers last week after most of its front-line and emergency workers already had been immunized. So college officials informed the state that they planned to use the leftovers on other employees, including older adults and those with multiple medical conditions, who would soon be eligible under the state plan.
On Monday, the university started immunizing those workers and planned to give shots to some 730 people throughout the week. But by Tuesday, the school’s vaccination clinic had come to an abrupt halt. The state wanted the college to limit immunizations to people who were 75 or older, a relatively tiny group on a college campus, and wait until sometime in February before expanding vaccinations.
“We could have hundreds of vaccinated people walking around, but our hands are tied,” said Renata Nyul, a spokeswoman for the college. “We still believe that because we have the doses, we should move ahead. But we have been persuaded by officials in the [state] COVID command center that we should wait until next week.”
Colleges, hospitals, and other institutions are wrestling with the same problem: what to do with their surplus vaccine doses. Even as countless seniors across the state are seething that they can’t get an appointment to get vaccinated, the extra doses at Northeastern will remain untouched and in deep freeze.
The Northeastern experience offers a window into the widespread confusion and frustration over vaccine distribution in Massachusetts, and how a lack of clear information to the network of providers on how to handle excess doses has hampered the rollout.
It also underscores the daunting task of rolling out a complex system that needs to be both fair and fast, amid so much uncertainty about the supply of vaccines. Massachusetts officials have complained about recent reduced shipments from the federal government, but they’ve also struggled to use all the doses once they’re here.
The state did not respond to questions specifically regarding why Northeastern was asked to slow its vaccination program, but in a statement, a state spokeswoman said the goal is to ensure that doses are being used wisely.
Data released Monday by the Baker administration suggested tens of thousands of doses are in freezers at hospitals and other providers.
State figures don’t distinguish how many of the hundreds of thousands of doses in storage actually are scheduled to be used in future appointments. Further clouding the picture, hospitals are receiving shipments of second doses that are reserved for people who received their first shots about a month ago.
Massachusetts public health officials have grown concerned about a possible logjam that could hurt the state’s chances of getting more vaccine quickly from the federal government. Massachusetts ranks in the bottom half of states for the amount of vaccines it has administered per capita, according to federal data......
It's like Whac-A-Mole now, and are there shortages or not?
What is with the never-ending gaslighting coming from "authority" and the pre$$?
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"The United States Marshals Service on Tuesday increased the reward for information leading to the arrest of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology grad student wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of a Yale graduate student. The reward for information leading to the arrest of 29-year-old Qinxuan Pan, whose last known address was Malden, is now set at $10,000, the service said in a statement. Pan was last seen driving with family members in the area of Duluth or Brookhaven in Georgia on Feb. 11. The marshals service warned that Pan is considered armed and dangerous. A family member told marshals that Pan was carrying a black backpack and acting strangely when last seen. Authorities have launched a nationwide manhunt for Pan, who is a person of interest in the Feb. 6 slaying of 26-year-old Kevin Jiang in New Haven. Pan has not been charged in the case, but is wanted on one count of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and interstate theft of a vehicle. Pan allegedly stole an SUV on the day of the slaying from a Mansfield, Mass., car dealer. Pan is described as a 6-feet-tall, 170-pound Asian male with a medium complexion and short black hair, the statement said. Anyone with information about Pan’s whereabouts is asked to contract US Marshals....."
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"The Greek community in Brookline and Newton is well on its way to raising $10,000 to support pediatric cardiac care at Boston Children’s Hospital. An annual New Year’s Day sing-a-long called “kalanda” has raised over $9,000 for the Boston Children’s Hospital Hellenic Cardiac Fund, which helps poor Greek children in need of serious operations. The event, which features Greek songs celebrating the promise of the new year, marked its 40th anniversary this year, and its first held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. About 60 people gathered over Zoom on Friday to celebrate four decades of caroling for a cause dear to their hearts. “It is reminiscent of my childhood,” said Manny Paraschos of Newton, who grew up in Athens and participated in kalanda there; however, COVID-19 prevented the group from performing in person this year, so they turned to Meletios Pouliopoulos, president of Greek Cultural Resources, a nonprofit based in New Hampshire, to host the kalanda on Zoom. Despite having to go virtual, Paraschos said the event was “fabulous.”
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I guess you girls will just have to stick to the script (just an ad that came with the story) and keep quiet:
"Timilty Middle School dean charged with raping underage former student" by John R. Ellement and Travis Andersen Globe Staff, December 14, 2020
The dean of students at Timilty Middle School in Roxbury is facing aggravated rape charges for allegedly having sexual relations with an underage former student during a span of several months this year, in what Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins called “the ultimate betrayal of a child’s trust.”
Manuel Mendes, 38, of Hyde Park, was arrested Friday and appeared Monday in West Roxbury Municipal Court, where he pleaded not guilty to four counts of aggravated rape of a child under the age of 16, officials said.
Bail was set at $35,000 cash. If he posts bail, Mendes must have no contact with the alleged victim and any witnesses, keep away from the Timilty school and any current or former students, have no unsupervised contact with children under 16, and submit to GPS monitoring.
A lawyer for Mendes declined to comment.
Boston Public Schools officials said they immediately placed Mendes on paid administrative leave after learning about the arrest.....
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At least he wasn't selling drugs, right?
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"A former police chief has been appointed the new independent overseer at St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H. to see that the elite boarding school complies with a 2018 settlement agreement over allegations of sexual abuse, officials said Tuesday. Donald E. Sullivan, a law enforcement veteran with more than 20 years’ experience, will step into the role “as soon as possible,” New Hampshire Deputy Attorney General Jane E. Young’s office said in a statement. His appointment comes almost three months after the previous overseer, Jeffrey T. Mahar, resigned citing an “intolerable working environment.” Sullivan previously served as police chief in the small towns of Hill and Alexandria, N.H., where he was chief from 2008 to 2020, according to the statement. The attorney general’s office selected him from three candidates provided by the school last month, Young’s office said....."
I'm further told the school has been the subject intense public scrutiny since 2014, after a freshman girl was sexually assaulted during a sexual hazing tradition known as the “senior salute.” That case led to the high-profile trial of Owen Labrie, a former St. Paul’s student who was convicted of sexually assaulting his classmate, Chessy Prout, in 2015, and the Globe outed him when they commenced for graduation, and is there anyone who even has faith in the religion or the schools anymore?
"Man with multiple rape convictions will spend life behind bars; Guilty pleas follow attacks on women in Taunton and Easton" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, February 17, 2021
A 63-year-old former Bridgewater man with a lengthy history of sex offenses will spend the rest of his life in prison after admitting to raping two women in separate attacks in the 1990s in Taunton and Easton, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The man, Ivan N. Keith, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Bristol Superior Court to 16 counts, including aggravated rape, kidnapping, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and breaking and entering at night with intent to commit a felony, according to legal filings and a statement from District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III’s office.
Keith had fled the state in 2003 and was apprehended in Maine in July 2019, according to Quinn’s office.
Judge Sharon Donatelle on Tuesday sentenced Keith to 25 to 30 years in prison, which will run consecutively to the 19- to 20-year term he began serving last year following a conviction for two other rapes from the 1990s, in Plymouth and Norfolk counties, the statement said.
“These were outrageous acts of violence against two innocent victims, who were just going about their everyday lives,” Quinn said.
The first rape Keith pleaded guilty to on Tuesday, prosecutors said, occurred July 27, 1997, outside Bristol-Plymouth Regional High School in Taunton, where a woman was exercising on the track when a masked man forcibly led her to a wooded area, tied her up, and raped her.
“I longed for the internal pain to stop,” the Taunton victim said in court, according to the statement. “I still carry the scars of what happened to me. What I experienced was nothing short of pure evil.”
The second rape occurred Nov. 22, 1998, when he attacked a woman cleaning offices at Steve Porter Appraisal Services in Easton, Quinn’s office said. While she was cleaning, a masked man accosted her as she opened the door of an office and then raped her before binding her hands and fleeing, according to the statement.
The Easton victim said in court that Keith “took away my joy, my laughter and my peace of mind,” Quinn’s office said, and that the day she learned of Keith’s arrest was among “the happiest days myself and my family ever had.”
Quinn’s office said DNA evidence and genealogical technology help tie Keith to the two rapes, as well as the earlier two sexual assaults that occurred in 1996. He’s currently serving the 19- to 20-year term for the 1996 rapes, before the clock starts on his 25- to 30-year prison sentence.
Prosecutors said Keith had also been convicted of several additional sex-related crimes in Plymouth County in the 1980s and 1990s, along with a sex crime conviction in Maine in 2000.
Ivan the Terrible was placed on page B5, far out of the Boston Globe Spotlight.
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"Cardinal Sean O’Malley and the state’s other three Roman Catholic bishops on Thursday condemned the Massachusetts Legislature’s decision to override a veto from Governor Charlie Baker and enshrine abortion rights in state law. The new law will allow abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy in cases of a fatal fetal anomaly and if “necessary, in the best medical judgment of the physician, to preserve the patient’s physical or mental health.” The bishops said in a statement that they “are deeply disappointed” by the Legislature’s decision and that abortion is a “serious moral wrong and directly undercuts our unyielding goal to promote the common good throughout a civil society.” The bishops said they would recommit themselves to the conception of natural death. “The Catholic Church recognizes that it has a primary moral responsibility to speak for the most vulnerable among us — the unborn,” they said. “That responsibility is at the center of the Catholic moral vision. Because of its centrality, the Church must oppose the directly intended taking of human life through abortion at any stage of pregnancy.”
The pious pervert dare talk about morality before God?
There is nothing "moral "about their stance.
They just want more butts to bugger since Francis signed off on taking fetal tissue in the vaccine.
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