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Assault allegation at school went unreported for month
http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2193281
WEST HARTFORD (AP) - Police say a sexual assault on a boy at the American School for the Deaf went unreported for a month, surfacing only after the boy's mother filed a police report.
The Journal-Inquirer of Manchester reports that the 17-year-old boy said he reported the incident right after it occurred April 12. But school officials waited two weeks to investigate, then dismissed the report as horseplay and opted not to report it to the state.
After the boy's mother went to the police a month later, however, investigators filed for an arrest warrant. Court documents say 16-year-old Joshua Tozeski of Holden, Massachusetts, pinned down and sodomized a fellow student.
Harvey Corson, the school's executive director, tells the newspaper that officials had no idea about the seriousness of the allegations.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he's investigating why a report was never filed with the Department of Children and Families.
Tozeski was arraigned on two sexual assault charges. He's free on bail and will attend a school in Washington next year. He has denied the charges, saying the sex was consensual.
http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2193281
WEST HARTFORD (AP) - Police say a sexual assault on a boy at the American School for the Deaf went unreported for a month, surfacing only after the boy's mother filed a police report.
The Journal-Inquirer of Manchester reports that the 17-year-old boy said he reported the incident right after it occurred April 12. But school officials waited two weeks to investigate, then dismissed the report as horseplay and opted not to report it to the state.
After the boy's mother went to the police a month later, however, investigators filed for an arrest warrant. Court documents say 16-year-old Joshua Tozeski of Holden, Massachusetts, pinned down and sodomized a fellow student.
Harvey Corson, the school's executive director, tells the newspaper that officials had no idea about the seriousness of the allegations.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he's investigating why a report was never filed with the Department of Children and Families.
Tozeski was arraigned on two sexual assault charges. He's free on bail and will attend a school in Washington next year. He has denied the charges, saying the sex was consensual.
