Supreme Court Says Girl Should Have Cheered For Her Rapist

A cheerleader was raped by her school’s football star Rakheem Bolton and the 16-year-old refused to cheer for him at a game. So she was kicked off of the squad. Her parents sued the school for inhibiting her right to free speech, but the Supreme Court refused to hear it.

Apparently “school spirit” means cheering for athletes even if they are criminals. There are plenty of cases where sexual assault in schools has been ignored when the accused is a star athlete, but you think the highest court in the land would know better.

The girl, identifying herself as H.R, says she was locked in a room and sexually assaulted by the three men at a party. When other high schoolers tried to get in, the three escaped through a window leaving clearly identifiable clothing behind. Bolton plead guilty to the charge. However, the students were somehow allowed back into the school for a brief period of time during which the football game took place.

Everything about this case was handled in disturbing and offensive ways. When H.R told the school about the assault, officials told her to keep a low profile and to avoid the cafeteria and homecoming, according to an article in Ms.. They were telling this poor girl to act ashamed and to hide while Bolton was let back into school.

Then federal courts ordered H.R and her family to pay the school district $45,000 for the cost of defending themselves. When the case was taken to the Supreme Court, they refused to hear it without a word of explanation. What happened to the idea that courts are supposed to provide justice? Not only was this girl sexually assaulted, she has to pay outrageous amounts of money and then gets rejected by our highest system of justice. She will now have to recover emotionally, mentally and financially from these appalling events.

As for Rakheem Bolton, he’s just one step closer to the NFL.

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