Girls suing the school argued that at least 59 girls were traumatized by “an extended, catastrophic institutional failure.” They claimed that they “were forced to go to high school while ‘deepfake’ nude images of them were circulating within the school community,” and that appallingly, Lindsay Deibler-Wallace, assistant head of Upper School, took no action to protect them after telling parents that “boys will be boys.”
The victims alleged that the school never suspended the students even after “the LCDS upper school was in a state of acute panic and disruption related to the AI-generated images.” Instead, the school allegedly discouraged girls from going to police, while withholding information from parents and obstructing efforts to investigate the distribution of AI-generated child sex abuse materials (CSAM), such as by refusing to respond to detectives seeking a yearbook photo for comparison.
Two male students have since pleaded guilty to 59 felony counts of sexual abuse of children, and their victims are hoping the court will rule that LCDS was required to report the incident to police, both by law and by “reasonable institutional practice.”
Name two then. You’re calling me obtuse and yet you’ve only said things so vague as to be functionally meaningless.
The high school near me has a police officer on site every day. Any potential illegal behavior is reported to the police officer. Kids known to be involved are put into individual rooms until parents show up. Then the police officer conducts an investigation.
The easy answer is the school should be reporting potentially illegal conduct and they should also be enthusiastic contributors to both reporting and to the subsequent investigation. From there it’s the responsibility of the executive and judicial to handle. Why exactly do you think a school has to have any active responsibility in enforcing the law beyond reporting and cooperating with the actual professionals that are specifically hired to handle such things? Two things in which this school actively failed at doing I might add.
Edit: I will add that, without naming minor students by name, they send an email to all parents of all students a summary of the situation prior to the end of the school day in nearly every case. So there, that’s three things that the school could easily do to make a huge difference from what this school did, which was actively hostile to the victims instead.