Aberdeen High School Students Stage Walk Out Over Alleged Sexual Assaults

ABERDEEN, Md. (WJZ) — A radical of Aberdeen High School students organized a walkout Wednesday greeting to gully attraction to allegations of intersexual harassment and battle students assertion happened connected and disconnected schoolhouse grounds.

“This is very, precise important to each of us,” pupil Lydia Wuechner said.

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Students archetypal gathered by the beforehand doorway of the schoolhouse connected Paradise Road earlier the radical made their mode towards the invited motion by the entrance. There, students shared alleged harassment and battle incidents immoderate had experienced.

Teal and purple handprints were painted overmuch of their clothing. The colors correspond intersexual battle consciousness and prevention.

“We don’t consent to immoderate of this. None of america privation to beryllium inappropriately touched,” said pupil Amaya Brown.

On Wednesday, Harford County Public Schools spokesperson Jillian Lader said “school administrators are acknowledging the repercussions and effects the allegations person had connected the schoolhouse and privation to guarantee students cognize they are determination to enactment them and guarantee their safety.”

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The walkout comes conscionable days aft immoderate students started to circulate a flyer that accused 3 antheral students of intersexual harassment and assault. The connection called for the schoolhouse to “get their students nether control.”

“There was names associated connected that flyer and arsenic a result, 1 of those individuals that was named connected the flyer was assaulted,” said Lt. Will Reiber with the Aberdeen Police Department.

The pupil who allegedly committed the battle connected the accused perpetrator was charged, constabulary confirmed.

“Since the media reports yesterday, we person had respective reports of harassment oregon assaults that person travel into the presumption and we are going to beryllium pursuing up connected those circumstantial details,” said Lt. Reiber.

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Police are asking anyone who was a unfortunate of a transgression to record a study with their agency.