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Oct 10, 2008 8:56 pm US/Central
Police: Student Sexually Assaulted At School
Compiled from staff reports
ARLINGTON (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
Mansfield School District officials say a middle school student was sexually assaulted while at school two weeks ago.
The district did not release information about the crime until today.Parents received letters from school officials, informing them about the incident.
The crime happened at James Coble Middle School. Coble is a Mansfield ISD school but is located in the City of Arlington, so Arlington Police are investigating.
In a news release, MISD spokesman Terry Morawski and Arlington Police spokesman Lt. Blake Miller say the assault happened on September 26.
Miller says a 13-year-old girl told police she had been in a hallway at the school that morning when a man grabbed her, pulled her into a girls' locker room and sexually assaulted her.
Miller identified the suspect as 34-year-old Fredrick Ramone Wright. He says Wright is the father of another Coble student and was visiting the campus that day. Wright is in the Arlington jail under $100,000 bond. He is being charged with aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping.
In the news release, Morawski lists the security measures in place at MISD middle schools. They include a sign-in system that scans visitors' driver's licenses and compares the information to a registered sex offender database.
Police say Wright went to the school to visit his own child. The sign-in system cleared him to enter the school, Miller said, and he was allowed into the building.
"We're reviewing our policies, basically every policy, to take a look to see if there's any additional measures maybe we need to take," said Mansfield ISD Spokesperson Terry Morawski.
No MISD middle school has security cameras, according to the district.
Parents say from now on, they believe every visitor on campus should be escorted. Some say they would also like the school to install surveillance cameras.
Police have not said whether Wright has a criminal past, but a search for his name in the Texas Department of Public Safety's Sex Offender Registry returned no results.
The district's statement also says although the crime happened two weeks ago, the district waited until now to tell the community about it "due to laws protecting privacy rights and to not impede the progress of the investigation."
Last year,
a teacher's aide was accused of sexually assaulting another student at the same school.
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