COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Two students were charged Wednesday in an alleged sexual assault at a high school in Columbus, WCMH television reported.
Brandyn Hobbs, 15, and Timothy C. Armistead, 16, were each charged with two counts of rape, one count of sexual battery and one count of kidnapping for the alleged attack March 9 in the high school auditorium.
Earlier Wednesday, the Columbus city attorney said that the principal at Mifflin High School failed to report abuse or neglect in the moments that followed the alleged sexual assault of the developmentally disabled girl at the school, WCMH reported.
Principal Regina Crenshaw will be the only adult charged in the case, the station said. She faces a misdemeanor charge.
Meanwhile, a hearing is scheduled to begin on Thursday to determine whether Crenshaw should be fired for not calling police following the incident, WCMH reported. Toki Clark, Crenshaw's attorney, contends that by the time Crenshaw heard about the incident, the victim's father had already called 911.
Clark pointed to what she called Columbus Public Schools' "unwritten policy" that schools should avoid calling the police.
"I've been superintendent for four years (and) I have not given that message at all in my four years," Superintendent Gene Harris said in an April interview.
Clark claims administrators delivered the message loud and clear. She said that two weeks before the alleged sexual assault, police were called to break up a big fight at Mifflin that nearly became a full-blown riot. She said that Jacqueline Ralls, the executive director for principal leadership development for CPS, called Crenshaw at the time to remind her of the so-called "unwritten rule."
"The school was not pleased with how the police were called to the school that day, and in the future, (Crenshaw should) contact downtown," Clark said.
Clark said other school employees would claim that the district is trying to hide the policy during Crenshaw's hearing.
"I do have some witnesses who are going to make themselves known and say, 'I know for a fact, I know for sure, there is this unwritten policy that you don't call police,'" Clark said.
A represenative said the school district would defer its response until after the hearing.
Clark also showed WCMH an example of what she called "confusion in district policy." The examples are two versions she received of policies for reporting abuse.
One of the policies, allegedly adopted in 1981, said employees may take pictures of proof of abuse. Another policy, approved five years later, said they could not take pictures.
She also has amendments passed years after the 1981 version.
The district did not comment about the policies.
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