Wednesday, March 02, 2016

IPS Officials Won't Comment On 6-Day Delay In Reporting Sexual Abuse Of Students By Employee

IPS officials have hunkered down and are avoiding questions about why multiple officials with knowledge one of the school's employees was having sex with students failed to file a report as required by state law until six days after learning of the abuse. An IPS counselor, Shana Taylor, faces multiple felony charges of child seduction for having sex with students in her office. WRTV's Kara Kenney tried without success to get IPS administration and board members to answer questions about the cause of the delay in reporting the abuse.
. . . Court records released Wednesday show Longfellow Alternative School officials were made aware of sexual abuse allegations against counselor Shana Taylor on Feb.17 when a parent came to the school and disclosed she had viewed numerous text and Facebook messages between her son and Taylor.
Court records show Mr. William Jensen, assistant principal, learned of the alleged sexual relationship on Feb. 17.
Jensen then made contact with numerous other school officials, including the director of student services and the director of human resources for the district, and forwarded all of the messages to human resources, court records say.
However, the Indiana Department of Child Services was not notified about the allegations until six days later on Feb. 23, according to James Wide, spokesperson for DCS.
Indiana Code 31-33-5-4 requires schools to orally report “immediately” to the Indiana Department of Child Services or local law enforcement.
IPS has declined requests to interview an official on camera about Taylor and the reporting timeline.
“Dr. Ferebee plans to speak about this situation with the media, but it won’t happen today,” a statement issued Wednesday said. “I’ll let you know as soon as I have a timeline on that item.”
Kenney also reached out to IPS Board of School Commissioners who all declined to comment.
“This is a personnel issue, and it is our board's policy not to comment,” IPS board president Mary Ann Sullivan said.
It’s not yet clear if school officials could face criminal charges related to the six day delay in reporting to DCS.
In 2014, the Indiana Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a former Muncie Central High School principal who failed to report the rape of a student in a timely manner.
The Indianapolis Star has gotten around to posting a story on the subject, although it contains no new information. And this is what's on the mind of the Democratic Party hack IPS board members have employed unnecessarily as their official spokesperson. How fitting.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a nightmare,It looks like their high priced PR lady is in over her head on this one...but when your handed a no bid contract,what do you expect. IPS is a cesspool of corruption, giving the Ferebee a raise under these circumstances is incredible. The board hands out contracts to their buddies and no one seems to care...yet there is no money colored pencils in art classes.

Anonymous said...

Should the high price PR lady add a shallow button to her twitter account?

Anonymous said...

What's your next post, Obama eating a watermelon?

Anonymous said...

Any thoughts on why this has not been publicized locally, at least not that I have seen? Have I missed it?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3473067/Father-two-NOT-prison-despite-admitting-repeatedly-molested-cancer-stricken-daughter.html

Anonymous said...

There has been no report on a city counselor's buried CPS file.

Anonymous said...

Ok, what is a MILF? And, about time they fired this shill?

Gary R. Welsh said...

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