Enjoyiana Nururdin, Erin Gretzinger
Staff members at a Madison middle school were placed on leave pending investigations into allegations that a student was sexually assaulted off school grounds, according to statements from the school, school district and police.
The Madison Metropolitan School District, the state’s Office of School Safety and Madison’s Police Department are investigating whether two male staff members at Annie Greencrow Whitehorse Middle School assaulted a male student with disabilities.
The student’s family members said in a Facebook post last week that two employees at Whitehorse assaulted him at a residence off school grounds, sprayed him with Lysol and threatened to kill him if he told anyone. The social media post was edited and has since been taken down.
A woman who identified herself as the student’s mother spoke Monday night during the public comment period of the Madison School Board meeting. It was the first time the mother directly and publicly spoke about the allegations, which were originally posted to Facebook by her sister-in-law.