Special ed student raped, forced to apologize to rapist, then raped again — at school

One of the saddest, most infuriating things I've read. I cannot understand how any educator (and I've known some truly awful ones) could allow something even close to this to happen.

The Republic School District of southwestern Missouri expelled a 7th-grade special education student because they didn't believe her when she told adults at her school that a classmate raped her. School officials forced her to apologize to him, then kicked her out of school for lying. She was allowed back to school the following year, and the same boy raped her again in the school library, according to a lawsuit filed on her behalf.

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