A Boston parent told the City Council that a Boston Public Schools staff member r*ped her child at school, the district covered it up, and when she asked why, they trespassed her and filed child-abuse reports against her. ⠀ Monica Murchison testified that her daughter was forcefully r*ped by a BPS staff member during school hours. She said protocol required police to be called, a 51A filed, and her to be contacted as the parent. None of that happened. ⠀ She had no knowledge of the incident and continued sending her daughter to school every day until the girl had a meltdown. “I was putting her into the arms of the abuser,” Murchison said. ⠀ When she demanded answers, BPS trespassed her from her daughter’s school and filed 51A child-abuse reports against her instead of the staff member. She pulled her daughter out of the district, left her catering job, and now home-schools her. ⠀ The hearing followed a three-year court fight that forced BPS to release records of more than 2,000 student-on-student s*xual misconduct complaints from 2018-19 through 2023-24. Councilors called for transparency after the district fought to keep the data hidden. ⠀ Another parent described repeated physical as$aults, bullying, and s*xual misconduct involving her 8-year-old daughter, including on the school bus for two years. ⠀ Think about what it means when a district fails to report a staff member’s r*pe of a student and then turns its reporting tools on the mother who asks questions. ⠀ #BPS #Boston