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    Default School Required a Safety Plan After Student's Psychiatric Hospitalization

    My question involves civil rights in the State of: Tennessee

    I'm a freshman in high school, and I wonder if there's anything I can do about my school. Throughout the year they have caused me severe emotional distress. At the beginning of the year, it was small things, but its progressed.

    In February, I was raped by a senior, after school one day. I came to school the next day and told the school security guard, who brought it to the counselor and principal. They didn't want to deal with it, or be held liable, so they had me psychiatrically hospitalized, saying I was suicidal and unsafe around myself - which I have never done anything to suggest that. The people at the hospital kept me less than the usual minimum, because they knew that this wasn't accurate. When I came back to school, they wouldn't let me reenter with out developing a "safety plan", not to keep me safe from the boy, but to keep me safe from myself. Another condition of me staying at school was I had to sign a contract saying I wouldn't discuss what had happened with ANYONE, inside of school, or out.

    In April, as I was walking from school to a class I was taking about a mile from school, he raped me again. I told the teacher, as I was bleeding and had several physical injuries, and she brought it to the school. My school said it was my fault because I should have been more careful, and been smart enough to recognize the situation. No one ever called the police, and my mother wouldn't take me to an emergency room.

    A few weeks later, my school developed a new safety plan, which will forever be in my file, that states "students is sexually innappropriate to include engaging in sexual intercourse during school, and making allegations against rape."

    I now am walked every where I go, and constantly supervised. The boy graduates tomorrow, and no action was ever taken against him.

    What can I do?

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    Default Re: Can I Sue My School

    Why didn't you call the police immediately the first time or the second time?

    Why don't you call them right now and report it?

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    Default Re: Can I Sue My School

    I did report it the first time, while in the hospital. I spoke to a few officers, but by that point there was no evidence and I was told it would just be my word against his.

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    Default Re: Can I Sue My School

    Are you still under the care of a psychiatrist? How long were you hospitalized for a possible psychiatric condition?

    Understand that the SCHOOL can NOT have you committed. They can notify the authorities who can have you evaluated and the mental health authorities can then authorize a short commitment. A longer term stay would require a court order (not sure what those terms are in your state).

    I strongly suspect that there is more to this story and if the police, the school, and mental health and medical authorities did not act, it was because there was some strong evidence to indicate that no sexual assault occurred.

    You might consider seeking the aid of a rape crisis organization in your area. They might be able to shed some light on events or act as your advocate if you have, indeed, been given the short shrift.

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    Default Re: Can I Sue My School

    I'm not.

    3 days. (The usual is 7)

    My problem isn't that I was raped, my problem is my school. Many many other things have happened, however these are the most recent, and most severe instances.

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    Default Re: Can I Sue My School

    why didn't you call the police? Why didn't you go to the hospital?

    there is obviously something more to the story than you have divulged here.

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    Default Re: Can I Sue My School

    The time to report it, was the night it happened. After that, it was basically your word against his.

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