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Locker room incident at Wootton H.S. prompts cancellation of football practice
Public Safety
Locker room incident at Wootton H.S. prompts cancellation of football practice
By Dan Morse and Donna St. George
Yesterday at 6:03 p.m. EDT
A “serious incident” inside the varsity football locker room at Thomas S. Wootton High School prompted school officials to cancel Wednesday’s practice and call a meeting of players’ families, according to messages from Wootton’s principal to parents.
The principal, Kimberly Boldon, did not specify what happened in the emails. Reached on Wednesday, Montgomery County school and police officials also declined to provide details.
Just after 4 p.m. Tuesday, the county’s 911 center received a call from school officials about an assault at Wootton “that was believed to be sexual in nature,” according to officer Casandra Durham, a county police spokeswoman. Investigators from the department’s sex crimes unit went to the school, interviewed several students and adults, “and it was determined that the incident was not a sexual assault,” Durham said.
As of Wednesday afternoon, she added, the matter was being handled by Montgomery County Public Schools officials following the terms of a memorandum of understanding between the two agencies. That indicates that any crime that may have occurred was relatively minor.
Police were conducting “no further criminal investigation regarding this incident and no charges are forthcoming at this time,” Durham said.
The immediate call by school officials to the county’s 911 center appears in sharp contrast to an incident inside the junior varsity football locker room at Montgomery’s Damascus High School in 2018. In that case, Damascus officials had credible information that a sexual assault occurred but delayed calling police for 12 hours and instead launched their own internal investigation of what happened. In the end, four players were charged with rape and attempted rape of four of their teammates while wielding a broomstick.
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By Dan Morse
Dan Morse covers courts and crime in Montgomery County. He arrived at the paper in 2005, after reporting stops at the Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun and Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is the author of "The Yoga Store Murder." Twitter https://twitter.com/morsedan
By Donna St. George
Donna St. George writes about education for The Washington Post, where she has been a reporter since 1998. She previously worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times. Twitter https://twitter.com/donnastgeorge
Locker room incident at Wootton H.S. prompts cancellation of football practice
By Dan Morse and Donna St. George
Yesterday at 6:03 p.m. EDT
A “serious incident” inside the varsity football locker room at Thomas S. Wootton High School prompted school officials to cancel Wednesday’s practice and call a meeting of players’ families, according to messages from Wootton’s principal to parents.
The principal, Kimberly Boldon, did not specify what happened in the emails. Reached on Wednesday, Montgomery County school and police officials also declined to provide details.
Just after 4 p.m. Tuesday, the county’s 911 center received a call from school officials about an assault at Wootton “that was believed to be sexual in nature,” according to officer Casandra Durham, a county police spokeswoman. Investigators from the department’s sex crimes unit went to the school, interviewed several students and adults, “and it was determined that the incident was not a sexual assault,” Durham said.
As of Wednesday afternoon, she added, the matter was being handled by Montgomery County Public Schools officials following the terms of a memorandum of understanding between the two agencies. That indicates that any crime that may have occurred was relatively minor.
Police were conducting “no further criminal investigation regarding this incident and no charges are forthcoming at this time,” Durham said.
The immediate call by school officials to the county’s 911 center appears in sharp contrast to an incident inside the junior varsity football locker room at Montgomery’s Damascus High School in 2018. In that case, Damascus officials had credible information that a sexual assault occurred but delayed calling police for 12 hours and instead launched their own internal investigation of what happened. In the end, four players were charged with rape and attempted rape of four of their teammates while wielding a broomstick.
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By Dan Morse
Dan Morse covers courts and crime in Montgomery County. He arrived at the paper in 2005, after reporting stops at the Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun and Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is the author of "The Yoga Store Murder." Twitter https://twitter.com/morsedan
By Donna St. George
Donna St. George writes about education for The Washington Post, where she has been a reporter since 1998. She previously worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times. Twitter https://twitter.com/donnastgeorge
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