The Daily Beast

She Reported a Sexual Assault—and the School Suspended Her

WBTVA student in Charlotte, North Carolina, who claims she was sexually assaulted in her high school bathroom reported it to an assistant principal and then the police. She sat for a 45-minute police interview, recounting the incident in which, she says, a fellow student put his hands down her pants and up her shirt without her consent.The police charged him with two counts of sexual battery.The school suspended her.Despite fierce criticism and protests, the Hawthorne Academy of Health Sciences