I was a victim of some violent and abusive behavior by some students who resided with me at a live-in school back in the 1970 and 1990's due to lack of proper supervision by staff and innadequate policies of the schools I attended. The students would be alliowed to use as a ruse to engage in these violent acts that they were involved in a rescue club, of which they had claimed to be ran by house staff who were running the cottage at the time. Also, in post secondary school I was hazed by students lviing in handicapped accessible housing with me so that they could get the place for themselves, because, it was easy access to be able to travel in and out with booze and partnerts of the other sex. The attitude of school officials at the time was "Oh, well." In doing a search on the Internet I had come across situations where ther had been incidents of sexual abguse or rape committed onto other students at prominent boarding schools and the schools did not want to deal with these problems, citing that it would hurt their image.
When my incident of it happening to me by three students at a boarding school in the state where I lived, shortly after its surface, I was hospitalized for seven days and the bill came to around $22,000.00 out of tax payer dollars, plus any additional outpatient therapy I had been receiving. Today, one of my alleged sex offenders is still a member of the school's alumni association. He would scare me when I would see him. Thus, I and a former Senator Steven A. Baddour of Methuen filed a bill mandating expulsion fior acts of sexual abuse committed onto other students by other students and also to give alumni association board of directors thke authority by way of statute to remove guilty sex offenders from a school's alumni association. The bill the last two times were put into study by the Joint Committee on the Judiciary under the chairmanship of Representative Eugene O'Flaherty and Senator Cynthia Stone Creme both members of the Massachuysetts Legislature. In the interum of me trying to get this legislation passed a news station out of Needham, Massachusetts did a team 5 investigative report on sexual abuse committed by students onto other students and it had showed that there was in fact no statewide policy regarding sexual abuse committed by students onto other students. But, yet, also during my quest, there had been numerous news reports of hazing going on in high schools in my state of Massachusetts. Some incidents involving contaminating cookies with sexual matters by the upper classmen of a basketball team to have younger students who wanted to join the school's basketball team. Then there was the case of Coach Jerry Sandusky of Penn State's football team, who is now currently convicted of sexual abuse onto children who were 10-years-old at the time of the abuse to which he was convicted of.
Sexual abuse was not a subject to be discussed in the 1970's or the 1980's. People, especially those of Massachusetts, the reason you should sign this petition is to ask the legislature to move and take swift action on a Juvenile Violence Act, which was filed on my behalf by Representative Diana DiZoglio of Methuen, Massachusetts. This bill would 1. Mandate expulsion for sexual abuse by students committed onto other students 2. Mandate a 10 day suspension for any student who engages in violence in conjunction with any hazing or bullying. 3. Give the school's alumni board of directors statutory jurisdiction to remove individuals who have committed sexual offenses years earlier, when they come to surface in a consitent manner. 4. Regulate how rescue training, sexual education training and rescue training is to be carried out and by whom. This would include the use of either a manikin or paper doll that replicates the human body. 5. Regulate how dorms are to conduct surveillances for inapropriate and appropriate entries and exits of student bedrooms. 6. Make mandated reporting of these offenses a fellony. 7. Mandate medical leaves for students of puberty age when there is going to bhe treatment or medical treatment on the private or genital areas or reproductive areas of the body and also put into protocols as to how these matters are to be handled and also place the respponsibilities of dealing with these matters of medical care for reproductive parts onto the child's parents or guardians and the treating physician and also would mandate prior and post treatment psychological and psychiatric evaluations prior to the end of the medical leave and upon the student's return from such medical leave, put into placfe an Individualized Behavioral Modification Educational Plan which also must put provisions in place for supervision during the school day and in the case of a live-in school, overnight supervision of the student who had just had treatment on reproductive parts of their body during the academic year and that the student cannot be roomed with any other student during the remainder of the4 academic year to which treatment has taken place. 9. The academic year would be defined as from September 1 of each year till June 30 of each year, to allow for a window period for this kind of treatment to be done without the added expenses of prividing adequate supervision. 10. Protocols would also be put into place to handle student suicide crises that arrive, along with stringent mandated reporting guidelines. In closing, Bragging about having an operation on a reproductive part of the bgody or having pretend rescue clubs or suoicide clubs should not be going on in school. It only arousesz problems and concerns. Not help the image of the school. Therefore, Hush, Hush, of these problems is not a solution. It is a problem to the problem. Setting boundaries, protocols and appropriate consequences for student misconduct is the solution. Tell the legislature of Massachusetts that it is now time for action without delay.