'Tired of being quiet': CMS students protest against sexual violence in their schools
CHARLOTTE (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) — On the exact same day that studies of a sexual assault at a Charlotte-Mecklenburg school turned general public, several pupils from all throughout the district gathered to protest the district’s reaction to sexual assault allegations.
Wednesday, a 15-year-old pupil at West Charlotte Higher College instructed police she was sexually assaulted although at university.
CMS suggests they are mindful of the incident and referred all thoughts to CMPD. The Police Section confirmed they are investigating the accusations.
“It’s actually dreadful to know that it’s however going on,” reported Nikki Wombwell, a former CMS university student who led Thursday night’s protest at 1st Ward Park in Uptown.
“Even right after all these protests, following all this media consideration and pupils are even now having assaulted on campus.”
Wombwell was 1 of the initially students to come ahead with accusations from CMS. She states she was sexually assaulted although still a scholar at Myers Park High Faculty.
FOX 46 generally does not detect victims of sexual assault, even so, Wombwell claims she desires some others to know her tale.
Wombwell says her statements were being dismissed by university and district leaders.
“I think that they are attempting to sweep it beneath the rug and hope that we’ll go absent,” said Wombwell.
CMS has been underneath intense scrutiny for months about its handling of sexual assault grievances. Again in August, Wombwell and other college students at Myer Park were amid the very first to make their accusations general public.
Considering the fact that then, the Principal of the university has been suspended, investigated, and in the end reassigned to a different place in the district.
Final month, pupils at Olympic Superior School protested following a soccer player accused of sexual assault was authorized to perform in a significant college soccer match.
“It exhibits that it’s not 1 school and it’s not just one human being. It is almost everywhere. And it desires to be handled like it is everywhere you go and it is critical,” explained Sereniti Simpson, a student at Olympic.
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Simpson assisted arrange final month’s protest at Olympic. She was afterwards suspended following the protest turned into a walkout and she still left the campus.
“To be punished for that, specifically more quickly than they could punish somebody beneath felony investigation, is surely shocking and it is shocking,” Simpson stated.
CMS has lately founded a Title IX activity drive to assess how the district handles accusations of sexual assault. Both of those Simpson and Wombwell say more work demands to be done.
“Students are tired of being quiet,” said Simpson.
“We’re permitting our voices be listened to.”
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