Black 12-year-old girl dragged by a rope around her neck by white classmates, schools says it was ‘accident’

The group of white boys allegedly put a rope around her neck and jerked her to the ground


The girl suffered 'severe and painful' cuts on her neck from the rope

The parents of a black 12-year-old girl are suing her Texas school after it allegedly failed to investigate a group of white students who put a rope around their daughter’s neck and dragged her to the ground.

The incident, which the parents say was intentional bullying, left “severe and painful” rope cuts in her neck, causing her mother to believe her neck had been ripped open and stitched back together again when she first saw it.

The mostly white, Live Oak Classical school in Waco has called the incident “an unfortunate accident”.

Her parents are suing for $3 million worth of damages including medical bills, physical pain, disfigurement and suffering by daughter - identified by her initials “KP” - and alleges the school failed to properly investigate the incident.

During the school’s overnight camping trip at the end of April, a group of students were playing with a rope swing tied to a tree, according to the Waco Tribune.


Three boys came up behind the girl, according to the lawsuit, wrapped the rope around her neck and “violently jerked” her to the ground.

According to the lawsuit, nobody helped her off the ground and the teacher allegedly did not look into whether the incident was deliberate and did not alert her parents.

“KP looked up, and saw the three boys an arms length from where she was laying. None of the three boys, nor anyone else, helped her off the ground or helped remove the rope from her neck as they would have done if it had been an accident,” the lawsuit read.

The school said in a statement that the accusations by the parent’s lawyers surrounding the incident are “false”.
A member of the board of directors, Jeremy Counseller, emailed a statement to The Dallas News.

“The student received first aid treatment immediately after the accident by a parent chaperone who is also a physician, and she was able to enjoy the remainder of the field trip, which lasted through the next day. Live Oak takes the safety of its students seriously and is saddened that one of its family suffered an unfortunate accident and injury.”

The school has denied a history of bullying of KP, including people not wanting to talk to her and one of the boys in the group behind the rope swing incident pushing and kicking her when the teacher was not looking.

School principal Allison Buras wrote an email to her mother, Sandy Rougely: “It sounds like he may have pushed on the back of her leg to make her leg buckle, which is something the kids sometimes do. Rarely is that done out of meanness but more out of a desire for sport.”

KP’s parents had not removed their daughter from the school earlier as they had trusted the school to prevent future bullying and that the children were not capable of causing such severe harm, according to a statement from their family’s lawyer, Levi McCathern.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-12-year-old-girl-dragged-by-a-rope-around-her-neck-by-white-classmates-schools-says-it-was-a7087656.html




Some bloody 'accident'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Classic southern games with classic southern toys: a rope and a black person.



"To make [their legs] buckle." It's just "...something the kids sometimes do. Rarely is that done out of meanness but more out of a desire for sport.”

When they're not playing football.

Looks like a wire injury to me.

How could she/they have been a "classmate" when they were trying to lynch her?, hardly a mate.

Her parents are suing for $3 million worth of damages including medical bills, physical pain, disfigurement and suffering by daughter - identified by her initials “KP” - and alleges the school failed to properly investigate the incident.

During the school’s overnight camping trip at the end of April, a group of students were playing with a rope swing tied to a tree, according to the Waco Tribune.
Three boys came up behind the girl, according to the lawsuit, wrapped the rope around her neck and “violently jerked” her to the ground.

According to the lawsuit, nobody helped her off the ground and the teacher allegedly did not look into whether the incident was deliberate and did not alert her parents.  “KP looked up, and saw the three boys an arms length from where she was laying. None of the three boys, nor anyone else, helped her off the ground or helped remove the rope from her neck as they would have done if it had been an accident,” the lawsuit read.

Appalling ...absolutely APPALLING;
a) why weren't the boys parents contacted - come get your children "NOW"
b) why weren't 'KP's parent notified and she then taken to some emergency center for possible internal injuries to her throat
c) pure utter BS that the adult chaperones allowed this to just remain left 'AS IS' and the camping trip continue over night as scheduled
CRAP - CRAP - CRAP ...utter BS


And yes, Stormee ...that's what a rope burn looks like - the rope fibers will tear at the skin and dig into the many layers of soft tissue - not at all like a wire!

Horrific. Let's hope they get hung out to dry.

One small thing though, $3 million? Seems really excessive tbh.

eddie wrote:Horrific. Let's hope they get hung out to dry.

One small thing though, $3 million? Seems really excessive tbh.

Well, one is allowed to set the 'request' but that doesn't mean that they'll be awarded by the jury/judge - often the attorneys will get something like 33%  {correct my percentage on that Quill, it maybe an old figure} of the awarded figure for their FEE'S to represent, in Lou of any actual payment for all those filing/legal hours for witness depositions and such.


Can you just imagine the horror/shock/anger you'd have felt had that been your daughter coming home from an overnight school event ~~~ I'd be taking that school apart brick by brick!  OMG...

Yes I'd be kicking some arses in the shcool and wanting to exact my revenge in the little bastard shits that did it.

3 million just sounded a really high amount.

Hope they get closure and monetary entitlement and the girl can put this behind her one day.

Let's hope the shits get the shit kicked out of them.

Good God! I hope the parents get their millions.

Or maybe she just got caught by the rope swing by being too close and/or walking into the path of another kid swinging on it...


If injury was only to one side of neck then that would suggest this is what happened...

Tommy I'm sure you're on a wind up sometimes.
Fucks sake.

No wind up.

Injury looks like rope was moving at speed down one side... consistent with what I suggested.


The kids were all playing on a rope swing on a tree.

I am being utterly serious and I expect the truth; are you saying this because the girl is Black and the boys are white?

I hate to point this out tommy...but you can only see one side......

so sherlock.....

and even so it appears from the scarring that the injury was substantial....why wasnt the parents immediately informed??

why was it "covered up"

and if it was an "accident" why are the school claiming it was "just a game"....that is to say ...trying to excuse the behaviour of that group of lads as a mere nothing....??? rather than saying it was an accident that happened on the swing......

Tommy Monk wrote:Or maybe she just got caught by the rope swing by being too close and/or walking into the path of another kid swinging on it...
If injury was only to one side of neck then that would suggest this is what happened...

Still needing an adult reader for that comprehension problem your pushing around or tired of being ignored for your ...immaturity?
Try reading the article 1 more time!

Eddie... no not at all.


Foul... the whole article is based on what the $3million lawsuit claimant is saying happened... That's a lot of money... people will do a lot worse than exaggerate a story or lie for a lot less money than at stake here...!

Tommy Monk wrote:Or maybe she just got caught by the rope swing by being too close and/or walking into the path of another kid swinging on it...


If injury was only to one side of neck then that would suggest this is what happened...

FFS!

HoratioTarr wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:Or maybe she just got caught by the rope swing by being too close and/or walking into the path of another kid swinging on it...
If injury was only to one side of neck then that would suggest this is what happened...

FFS!

A fully rotated 3-D image of 'KD' neck won't satisfy our #1 conspiracy theory sleuth and his masterful grasp on the obvious ...not when the answers are right there in the first article that Sassy provided!

There are other pictures and details of injury...


Try reading the op and links...


The injury was only to left side and front left side...


Conducive to being caught by the rope swing in action...

4EVER2 wrote:

eddie wrote:Horrific. Let's hope they get hung out to dry.

One small thing though, $3 million? Seems really excessive tbh.

Well, one is allowed to set the 'request' but that doesn't mean that they'll be awarded by the jury/judge - often the attorneys will get something like 33%  {correct my percentage on that Quill, it maybe an old figure} of the awarded figure for their FEE'S to represent, in Lou of any actual payment for all those filing/legal hours for witness depositions and such.


Can you just imagine the horror/shock/anger you'd have felt had that been your daughter coming home from an overnight school event ~~~ I'd be taking that school apart brick by brick!  OMG...

Yeah...one-third is the usual fee, one-half if it goes to appeal It usually does.

$3-million is not that much. A jury just handed Hulk Hogan $115 against a company for filming his sex with a woman. Now that's a reputational injury, and not even a physical injury. And he got to keep the tape.

Erin Andrews was awarded $55-million over the secret recording and release of a video showing her naked during a hotel stay. Again, that's just for a peek-a-boo, and not a serious bodily injury.

So $3-million is a drop in the bucket.

in US system 3 million is peanuts, you would not get that here or the UK

And Tommy are you fucken defending attempted lynching

That's a new low

A bunch of 12 years old kids playing on a rope swing...

One got in the path of the swing...


Now... make a fuss for $3million... or don't...!?

eddie wrote:Yes I'd be kicking some arses in the shcool  and wanting to exact my revenge in the little bastard shits that did it.

3 million just sounded a really high amount.

Hope they get closure and monetary entitlement  and the girl can put this behind her one day.

Let's hope the shits get the shit kicked out of them.

OFTEN you will see some lawyers in those kinds of litigations asking up front for a more extreme amount at first, knowing that they may have to negotiate a lower settlement afterwards..

veya_victaous wrote:
in US system 3 million is peanuts, you would not get that here or the UK

And Tommy  are you fucken defending attempted lynching

That's a new low

TOMMY'S probably still on a roll, all revved up from defending right wing extremist looney groups on a couple of other threads...          

Hahahaha quill made me laugh - "and he got to keep the tape" (hulk hogan)

Yes I guess after expenses etc 3 million dollars isn't a massively huge amount now it's been explained to me.

Tommy; sometimes you are a twonk.
Have you not seem the poor girl's neck? Not to mention the pure fright she must've felt.

4EVER2 wrote:

Her parents are suing for $3 million worth of damages including medical bills, physical pain, disfigurement and suffering by daughter - identified by her initials “KP” - and alleges the school failed to properly investigate the incident.

During the school’s overnight camping trip at the end of April, a group of students were playing with a rope swing tied to a tree, according to the Waco Tribune.
Three boys came up behind the girl, according to the lawsuit, wrapped the rope around her neck and “violently jerked” her to the ground.

According to the lawsuit, nobody helped her off the ground and the teacher allegedly did not look into whether the incident was deliberate and did not alert her parents.  “KP looked up, and saw the three boys an arms length from where she was laying. None of the three boys, nor anyone else, helped her off the ground or helped remove the rope from her neck as they would have done if it had been an accident,” the lawsuit read.

Appalling ...absolutely APPALLING;
a) why weren't the boys parents contacted - come get your children "NOW"
b) why weren't 'KP's parent notified and she then taken to some emergency center for possible internal injuries to her throat
c) pure utter BS that the adult chaperones allowed this to just remain left 'AS IS' and the camping trip continue over night as scheduled
CRAP - CRAP - CRAP ...utter BS


And yes, Stormee ...that's what a rope burn looks like - the rope fibers will tear at the skin and dig into the many layers of soft tissue - not at all like a wire!

Razor wire, barbed wire, cable wire.?????

4ever2 stated > And yes, Stormee ...that's what a rope burn looks like - the rope fibers will tear at the skin and dig into the many layers of soft tissue - not at all like a wire!

Stormee replied > Razor wire, barbed wire, cable wire.?????

You've never had a 'rope burn' while growing up '?' and seriously Stormee -
Razor wire= there'd be RAZOR gashes deeply cut into her neck - "the boys jerked her off of her feet {not suspended her from the tree as Tommykins keeps implying} Razor wire - not something found in Texas, at a camp ground that children are allowed to use - more like a prison system possibly!

Barbed wire = again there would be 'puncture wounds' from the BARBED part of the wire and wire isn't easily just looped around someone's head & neck without their knowing it or people holding the victim or leaving yet again those - Puncture Wounds that clearly are not there!

You did read the article ...RIGHT? Especially the part where the victim 'KD' told them it was a ROPE. Why are you wanting to make it something it wasn't?

Horrendous....the school seems not to have taken this seriously.
That poor girl could have been severely damaged....I hope she and her parents get justice, and if that includes money.....good luck to them.
It may make other students think twice in future.

eddie wrote:Hahahaha quill made me laugh - "and he got to keep the tape" (hulk hogan)

Yes I guess after expenses etc 3 million dollars isn't a massively huge amount now it's been explained to me.

Tommy; sometimes you are a twonk.
Have you not seem the poor girl's neck? Not to mention the pure fright she must've felt.

Yes... injured... rope burn down left side... no injury to other side... think she was caught by the swing... accident...

The only time I have ever seen a similar injury is when a classmate of my son tried to hang himself when he was about 11. Had his mum not found him in time he would be dead.

Syl wrote:The only time I have ever seen a similar injury is when a classmate of my son tried to hang himself when he was about 11. Had his mum not found him in time he would be dead.

 


Yep, and how Tommy works out that a picture of one side of the neck shows that the other side of the neck isn't injured is sheer magic lol

What is wrong with you idiots..!?


THERE ARE OTHER PICTURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF INJURY ON LINKS THAT SHOW ONLY ONE SIDE IS INJURED!!!


How you can see a picture of one side and assume the other side is injured too is showing your stupidity!!!

Tommy Monk wrote:What is wrong with you idiots..!?


THERE ARE OTHER PICTURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF INJURY ON LINKS THAT SHOW ONLY ONE SIDE IS INJURED!!!


How you can see a picture of one side and assume the other side is injured too is showing your stupidity!!!

Show us them then..

And do explain how a swing could do that.

Eddie called you a twonk, twonks are quite nice, just a little bit dim, you on the other hand are malicious.

Here is a news report that shows more detail of the girl's injuries.

Have a look yourself...

Irn Bru wrote:Here is a news report that shows more detail of the girl's injuries.

So deep rope burns all round her neck, clearly visible.   FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  30 seconds in onwards

Tommy Monk wrote:Have a look yourself...

It seems Irn did Tommy.

Back of girls neck has no injury.

Injury is only down left side and front... conducive to being caught by moving rope swing with someone on it.

Tommy Monk wrote:Injury is only down left side and front... conducive to being caught by moving rope swing with someone on it.

The only method of pulling the adults into a discussion with the 'Village Idiot' is to keep splitting the hairs of any topic to a point that there 'ISN'T ONE' and then he's got all of us responding to his utter blather as if it really was of value!

DO NOT FEED THE   it survives off of the confusion!

Piss off twat!

YOU really are a fuckwit, Tommy...

(Anybody care to prove me wrong ??? )

"The school interviewed all student witnesses and teachers who were present and each independently established that the accusation made by the attorney is absolutely false. The injuries were caused accidentally while the students were playing with the swing and attached pull rope."

Tommy Monk wrote:

"The school interviewed all student witnesses and teachers who were present and each independently established that the accusation made by the attorney is absolutely false. The injuries were caused accidentally while the students were playing with the swing and attached pull rope."

Obviously the school is denying there is bullying or racism because they failed to act before this horrible thing happened to the girl.
Sounds like a crap school to me....a good school would face the problems and do their upmost to stamp it out.

"... all student witnesses and teachers who were present each independently established that the accusation made by the attorney is absolutely false..."

Tommy Monk wrote:"... all student witnesses and teachers who were present each independently established that the accusation made by the attorney is absolutely false..."

Well they would wouldn't they?
The girls injuries tell a different story.

No the girls injury is completely conducive to being caught by rope swing... by accident...


All the witnesses say that is what happened...


But the parent wants to try for a few million dollars out of it all...

Maybe if the school had handled the previous complaints that the girl was being bullied, kicked, pushed, ignored and picked on by her classmates it wouldn't have come to this.

Maybe that was all just made up to add weight to the claim up attempt...

Tommy Monk wrote:Maybe that was all just made up to add weight to the claim up attempt...

There should be records to show, so if the school isn't totally corrupt in it's dealings with the students that wont be hard to prove.

Three boys came up behind the girl, according to the lawsuit, wrapped the rope around her neck and “violently jerked” her to the ground.

According to the lawsuit, nobody helped her off the ground and the teacher allegedly did not look into whether the incident was deliberate and did not alert her parents.

“KP looked up, and saw the three boys an arms length from where she was laying. None of the three boys, nor anyone else, helped her off the ground or helped remove the rope from her neck as they would have done if it had been an accident,” the lawsuit read.

So this 'official camp ground' used by many schools and other youth groups has never had any other occasions for such an nylon rope burn injury and yet there are examples of conspiracy theory 'wing-nuts' that think that this long - nylon rope, used to pull the seated human in the basket would just magically wind around a by standers neck of it's own volition and provide a horrible burn to her neck! 

That was still visible for many days after her return from the overnight outing ...
Yes, Indeed ...that type of rope swing accident happens all of the time - each and every time there's a group of kids using that basket swing   
This goes directly to INTENT and the reaction of those standing around afterwards that DID NOTHING to assist her with the obvious burn to her neck.

The lawsuit said the episode occurred at a swing: a disc-shape basket hanging from a tree with a separate rope that the children pulled to lift the swing higher. The girl said she had been pulling on the rope but then became tired and stood to the side. She then felt the rope around her neck, and she was “violently jerked” to the ground. “When it got around my neck, no one helped me, so I had to pull it off by myself,” she said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News.
The lawsuit said three boys — including one who previously targeted the girl — were standing behind her. She said that her neck was “really hurting” afterward and that a chaperone put Vaseline on the wound and gave her Motrin.
Mr. McCathern, the girl’s lawyer, said of school administrators, “They froze and they didn’t tell anybody.” That officials did not notify the girl’s parents, he said, “reeks of race.”
Mr. Deaconson, the school’s lawyer, said he had investigated what happened and gave this account: As many as a dozen children were pulling on the rope to give the swing height, and when they let go, the rope whipped past the girl, hit her in the neck and left her with a rope burn.
He said that the girl’s lawyer sent emails on May 11 that said the plaintiffs would settle for $2.7 million and remain quiet about the case, and that if a settlement was not reached by 5 p.m. May 12, Mr. McCathern would begin releasing information to the news media to coincide with observances of the 100th anniversary of the last lynching in Waco, on May 15.
Mr. McCathern, however, called Mr. Deaconson’s description of what happened “cockamamie.” As for the emails, he said, he sent them because the school wanted details of the damages being sought in writing, so that they could be passed on to an insurer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/18/us/texas-family-sues-after-rope-is-wrapped-around-black-girls-neck-on-school-trip.html?_r=0

After looking at that set up for the basket swing and that long nylon rope used to pulling the seated occupant higher ...those little heathens are lucky that they didn't break her neck in their utter stupid asinine joke!  And those in charge of the field trip ...not enough words for the lack of supervision and total lack of protocol and follow up for what happened afterwards - especially when the 'KD' had expressed a problem previously with one of the boys as bullying her. 
Peer group/status quo, within the teachers & staff is ramped among teachers every where! 

Tommy...you are clueless and seem to enjoy this unfortunate girls suffering ...and that says a whole lot about your morality or the lack thereof!