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A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her

The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and then from a sheriff’s deputy assigned to their school. But the images were shared on Snapchat, an app that deletes messages seconds after they’re viewed, and the adults couldn’t find them. The principal had doubts they even existed.

Among the kids, the pictures were still spreading. When the 13-year-old girl stepped onto the Lafourche Parish school bus at the end of the day, a classmate was showing one of them to a friend.

“That’s when I got angry,” the eighth grader recalled at her discipline hearing.

Fed up, she attacked a boy on the bus, inviting others to join her. She was kicked out of Sixth Ward Middle School for more than 10 weeks and sent to an alternative school. She said the boy whom she and her friends suspected of creating the images wasn’t sent to that alternative school with her. The 13-year-old girl’s attorneys allege he avoided school discipline altogether.

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[–] riskable@programming.dev -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sexual harassment is a crime at work. Outside of that, it's just another form of bullying/harassment.

Assholes will catgall girls as they walk past but that's not illegal. It's no different than shouting explitives at minorities. It's a dick move, but it's not illegal. Not in the US, anyway (because of the First Amendment).

I'd also like to point out that she didn't get expelled for "trying to stop" the bullying. She got expelled for violence (against the bullies). That is why I think it's the zero-tolerance policies that are a huge part of the problem.

If a girl slaps a boy that's harassing her, there's very little actual consequences from that. The boy might be sore for a day or two but he might leave her alone after that. Yet our policies forbid this in the most extreme way possible. It's like being put to death for trampling flowers.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago

If what the boys did wasn’t illegal why did the sheriff’s office charge them with a crime but not her?

Do you have any idea what Title IX is or how sexual harassment falls under it?

Also, she did try to stop the bullies by reporting it to the adults in charge at the school. They have a duty to act, and they failed her. Stopping them with force was the only option left to her that would actually stop the sexual harassment, and it was a completely reasonable path to take. If more teenage boys got fuckin popped one for sexually harassing their peers maybe they’d think twice about it.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

You're suggesting that people can only be sexually harassed at work?

Lol what?