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A Daily News investigation into the abuse experienced by some 142,000 students while riding the New York City’s school buses uncovered sexual abuse experienced by kids. The students, some of who are part of the city’s special education program, were anywhere from 5 to 19-years-old. These facts haven’t been widely acknowledged until now due to the daunting mess that is bureaucratic paperwork. There have been 22 complaints in the past decade.
The molestations, which usually took place in close proximity to bus monitors who are hired specifically to make sure the kids are safe, include “rubbing of private parts,” “oral sex and sodomy,” and rape. Most of the lawsuits involved students accusing other students of sexual abuse. In other instances, two bus drivers and a bus monitor were accused.
According to the New York Daily News:
Of the remaining completed cases, one involved a jury award of $150,000; another victim won a $210,000 settlement in November 2005.
The family of a 19-year-old Down syndrome woman from Public School 721 in Elmhurst, Queens, has notified the city it intends to sue for a
July 2006 sexual abuse allegation involving a male bus monitor. The family of a 12-year-old girl who says she was molested on her way home from Public School 109 in East Flat-bush, Brooklyn, last May also plans to sue.
Fourteen of the cases are the subjects of pending lawsuits, while the final two were internal complaints, from October 2005 and last February, that were substantiated by the Department of Education.
Based on reports from the past few months, I have determined that my future kid won’t be riding the school bus. This decision won’t really matter that much when I won’t have any choice but to use it because I have to go to work.
Sex & secrecy in back of the bus [New York Daily News]
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