A Baltimore school staff was fired after they abided in the hate crime of a female Muslim student.
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Last month, a female ninth-grade student was attacked in a bathroom at The Academy for College and Career Exploration. The three girls who committed the hate crime punched her head, ripped off her hijab, and tried to choke her with it. When she tried to escape from the bathroom, the door was locked outside, and investigators said a staff member was seen locking the door during the vicious attack.
Zainab Chaudry, Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told CBS News that the girl sustained a concussion and her sister was harassed by the three girls a few days later. Her parents said the school didn’t inform them about the incident, although officials said they sent out translation letters since the parents recently moved from Afghanistan.
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“The families of these girls fled persecution in Afghanistan seeking a better life, education and opportunities for their children, not expecting that they would be forced to confront a different kind of trauma and violence in our institutions here in the United States,”
Two days after the attack, Principal Nick D’Ambrosio and a teacher conducted a home visit. City Schools released a statement about the incident and confirmed that the staff member involved was fired.
“City Schools has been treating these incidents with the utmost seriousness since they were first reported, and are using a variety of approaches to address the serious concerns raised in the letter from CAIR,”
Community meetings were enforced in the school to address cultural differences in relation to religious attire and other customs.