Russian-speaking school principal in Brooklyn dismissed for not reporting the police about sexual abuse at school
'23.04.2018'
Source: Daily Mail
In a school that helps immigrants get an education, they arrested two high school students for sexual abuse in the Village Academy school locker room.
Suspect 17 — year-old Santosh Bonito; and an 15-year-old guy, whose name is not reported, was arrested this month in connection with the November 2017 attack
School principal Marina Vinitskaya was fired from her job shortly after her arrest for not reporting violence at school.
On November 3, a gang of hooligans broke into the school locker room, ran to the 14-year-old victim, chanting “New Friday! New Friday. This is stated in the police statement.
According to the police, the older boys grabbed the victim by the genitals through the clothes and then tried to cuddle up to their buttocks.
When the victim told the school authorities, Bonito and other suspects were removed from school.
But the director and other executives never contacted the police, and the victim’s mother herself had to call the police.
A few days later, the projector Vinitskaya was sent to the infamous “soft-walled room” of the Department of Education. There, the teacher under investigation provides daily, monthly reports while the investigation lasts.
Bonito was arrested on April 12. He was charged with inhuman violent touch and could face up to a year in prison.
The second juvenile suspect was arrested on Monday.
He attended Village Academy, located in the East Flatbush district of Brooklyn and has about 730 students.
The public school is known for helping children of new arrivals to get an education.
Many children speak Haitian or French at home, while others speak Arabic and Spanish.
A nonprofit school review site in New York adds that in the Village Academy “children complain about safety in the locker rooms.”
