Yeah, I find it inexplicable that you wouldn't just call the cops. But even if you don't call the cops, and instead report to your supervisor, when nothing happens, you don't follow up?!?
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Nov 08, 2011 4:16:08 pm PST #5499 of 30001
§ ita § - Nov 08, 2011 4:22:15 pm PST #5500 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There must be a weird sort of, well, collegiate feeling bordering on Stockholm Syndrome that makes you go to your boss instead of the cops in that instance. What does the kid have to do with your boss? He's the one getting raped. Save him!
Izze! And I found an apple in my car. So I'm way ahead of yesterday, nutritionally. Also, some cornbread grabbed my eye in the store, so I'll see if I can actually stomach that.
That Walgreens app is totally freaking me out. CVS is just not cool enough.
Amy - Nov 08, 2011 4:32:20 pm PST #5501 of 30001
Because books.
I'm with Erin, though. I walk in and see a grown man raping a ten-year-old kid, I'm screaming for someone to call 911 until I'm hoarse, and probably jumping him just to get him off the kid.
Jesse - Nov 08, 2011 4:32:28 pm PST #5502 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There is definitely a prevailing attitude in universities I've seen that you deal with even serious crimes internally, not with the local cops. Especially sex crimes. Of course, usually it's the rape of a peer, not a child.
Hil R. - Nov 08, 2011 4:32:31 pm PST #5503 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Student newspaper is tweeting from the rally going on at the administration building.
Student is loudly yelling, asking crowd why it is singing and dancing to Will Smith song given grave situation at hand. #PSUCharges
askye - Nov 08, 2011 4:35:47 pm PST #5504 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I guess Penn State officials decided if it wasn't on the main campus it doesn't count?
Stephanie - Nov 08, 2011 5:06:41 pm PST #5505 of 30001
Trust my rage
When frisco got undressed tonight, he was a little stinky so I made him take a bath. When he was done, I was playfully sniffing his toes, saying they smelled good. And then frisco says to me, "do you want to smell my butt?". I declined, telling him I was sure it now smelled good, but it did make me laugh.
sarameg - Nov 08, 2011 5:15:52 pm PST #5506 of 30001
Ah, he's reached the booty humor stage!
Another weird day. Lots of transitions at work which are messing with my head a little.
I think I was mildly to worse depressed, enough so to be to my detriment careerwise, most of my 20s. No, I know I was. I was stuck. I don't think I really broke free until the last few years. And that's depressing!
Hil R. - Nov 08, 2011 5:18:16 pm PST #5507 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Based on the tweets from campus, it sounds like there might be a riot starting outside the stadium. Unfortunately, I think it's a riot in support of Paterno.
Kat - Nov 08, 2011 5:28:49 pm PST #5508 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Mandated reporter stuff is also not necessarily a report to the cops thing. In my district, we have School Police who are a subset of LAPD. If we suspect abuse we report not to school police to child protective services, THEN regular LAPD, but not school police.
Other weird thing, if I suspect a student of self harm (such as cutting) I don't report it and in fact CPS will not take that report. But if I suspect them of suicidal thoughts, I have to report.
The whole thing is stomach turning.
In slightly lighter news: BRAINS or at least Jell-o Brains.