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Research published in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that one in five high school girls has been physically or sexually abused by a dating partner, significantly increasing their risk of drug abuse, suicide and other harmful behavior.  The data from the Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Surveys doesn’t indicate whether date violence is a cause of teens engaging in unhealthy behaviors or whether already troubled girls are more likely to date violent partners.  The study stems from surveys of 4,163 public school students in Massachusetts, but the authors

The Post reported its analysis of 117 cases of sexual abuse substantiated by Schools Special Investigator Edward Stancik’s office over 2 1/2 years.  The Post has chosen five examples out of those cases that highlight the system’s flaw.

1.  On March 19, 2001, Edilberto Correa, a 44-year-old teacher at IS 162 in Brooklyn, was sentenced to a year of probation for third degree sexual abuse charges.  Police caught him tongue-kissing a 15-year-old ex student.  The Board of Education was told by Stancik’s investigators about the conviction, but officials refused to

A Post study found that 15-year-old girls in Brooklyn high schools are statistically most likely to be sexually abused by predators in city schools.  An overwhelming number of female students want the Board of Education to arm them with the information and the support they need to survive.  A perfect example of how helpless girls feel when they encounter sexual abuse in school is when a 15-year-old girl was pregnant and didn’t know whom to turn to.  The father was an adult school employee at a Brooklyn high school, who

Advocates and school officials charge that the Board of Education’s policies to protect students from sexual abuse aren’t worth the paper they are written on.  In 1994, Schools Special Investigator Edward Stancik and a commission of experts outlined 35 recommendations to prevent sexual abuse in schools, but he says the board has not only failed to implement many of them, but has no means to police the rules it did adopt.  The board insists that it has implemented 32 of the recommendations over the years as the sexual abuse problem

As many as 4,500 murder and rape cases may be going unsolved here because of huge backlogs at the crime laboratories of the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County sheriff’s office.  The LAPD crime lab has about 1,400 rape kits waiting for DNA analysis so they can be matched with California’s computer DNA database.  That’s in addition to 1,200 murder cases in which potential biological evidence has not been tested.  At the sheriff’s crime lab, which services areas outside the city, another 1,200 rape kits and 1,200

School officials have long insisted tenured teachers accused of sex abuse are taken away from children and reassigned to desk jobs at district superintendent’s offices.  They fail to mention that most superintendent’s offices are located in schools, where these predators can still prey on unsuspecting kids.  The Martin Luther King Jr. HS in Manhattan, Edward R. Murrow HS in Brooklyn and Lehman and Theodore Roosevelt high schools in the Bronx are considered the dumping grounds.  In the past 30 months, eight accused sex abusers have worked at Martin Luther King,