KABC WEST LOS ANGELES - Phobias, nightmares and acting out. That's how baffled parents described the behavior of their once joyful 13-year-old boy. He is Deaf and could not explain. Then came the call from his school.
"My son was raped. He was forced to participate in oral sex," his mother Geneva White-Sosanya said.
She and her husband Tunde Sosanya have filed a lawsuit claiming negligence. Watch CC Video - KABC EXCLUSIVE NEWS
They had enrolled their son at the California School for the Deaf in Riverside, an institution that brings special-needs students from across the state to live on campus. Supervisors used computerized surveillance to help monitor students, especially at night.
"My son was bullied. He was forced. He was drug from his bed at night and this happened while the randomized computer checks were in place," said the distraught mother.
The parents were especially disturbed by how long the school waited to notify them of the attack. They were contacted three months after it happened and had not been present to comfort him when he was questioned by investigators. The school told the parents that seven other students were also involved.
"Gut wrenching," the boy's father Tunde Sosanya said. "I was with my wife when we got that news. My wife broke down crying."
Because the state operates the school, the California Highway Patrol and Child Protective Services were called to conduct a criminal investigation into what the Sosanya's attorney says was a sex club... Read more: http://abc7.com/news/exclusive-deaf-student-allegedly-raped-as-part-of-riverside-school-sex-club/
