An investigation by CBS Reports has found widespread failure to hold public school districts accountable when children are sexually abused in American schools. Lax oversight and underreporting of such incidents appear to be to blame.
An investigation by CBS Reports has found that little is being done to hold public school districts accountable. Systemwide oversight failures at the local, state and federal levels have enabled the sexual abuse of children in American schools to persist with virtually no monitoring of such incidents.
And teachers told CBS they observed a culture that discouraged reporting suspicions of misconduct in their schools.No state or national databases exist to track incidents, so authorities don't have hard data on where However, in one case when they did report in 2013, local police said they witnessed a Redlands school official deleting evidence that indicated the district may have known a teacher sexually abused students. The official denied the allegation.No law enforcement agency at the Redlands city, county, state or federal levels has taken primary responsibility for policing the problem of abuse.
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