Brooklyn School to Pay Former Student $200K After Failing to Punish Boys Who Raped Her on Campus and Posted Video Online
Brooklyn’s Transit Tech High School will pay $200,000 to a 14-year-old former student after they failed to punish a group of boys who raped her on campus and published a video of the attack online.
The civil suit the girl and her family brought on alleged a “dangerous environment” at the school.
The lawsuit named Marlon Bynum, the principal of East New York’s High School of Transit Technology, and Janice Ross, the Brooklyn North district superintendent. It claimed that school officials were aware of the incident or other similar events and did nothing.
The lawsuit alleges school officials “were aware that female students were regularly harassed and subjected to abuse and that sexual activity was occurring within the school.” It also states they “were aware that female students were regularly harassed and subjected to abuse and that sexual activity was occurring within the school… particularly by a group of offenders who have been allowed to engage in similar despicable conduct without effective reprimand or discipline.”
The girl’s lawyer,
