The fact Fairfield City Schools has engaged in a long pattern of dishonesty and outright lies about the Emilie Olsen case is beyond question. We have proven beyond all doubt that the school district is incapable of being truthful on the subject of Emilie.
The question is, who particularly at the district is or was generating these lies? We still don't know, but we're here to present an example of some of the lies the district told itself in the days after Emilie Olsen died.
Check out this December 16, 2014 e-mail from Fairfield City Schools Public Relations Director Gina Gentry-Fletcher to the Superintendent, Board of Education, and other district officials:
As you can read for yourself, Ms. Gentry-Fletcher informed district leaders that no evidence indicated Emilie Olsen was bullied, police investigated her case twice, no bullies were named, the Middle School principal only coincidentally visited the Olsen home with police to return locker belongings, and the school resource officer was continuing to investigate.
None of that is true. Not a single, solitary word of it.
Let's be clear here. Just because what district spokesperson Gina Gentry-Fletcher said was not true, does not mean she is personally engaging in dishonesty. Perhaps she was fed bad information by someone. We have no idea who that would be. But you might have your own opinions on that subject.
Regardless of where the dishonesty was generated, what was being relayed to district leaders in this e-mail was not true. And we'll prove it in five easy points.
1. In her e-mail to district leaders, Ms.Gentry-Fletcher states the police investigation was done twice.
Nowhere in the police report, and in no media outlets was it ever reported that the police investigation was conducted twice. In fact, no one anywhere has ever claimed that, except in this e-mail we've posted.
Why? Where did the idea the investigation was conducted twice come from? We'd like to know. More importantly, so would a federal court.
We have spoken offline to some of the people interviewed by police in the investigation. None of the people interviewed, save one, were spoken with by police on more than one occasion. Nowhere in the police report was it mentioned that multiple interviews were conducted with every single person contacted.
2. In her e-mail to district leaders, Ms.Gentry-Fletcher stated that there was no evidence Emilie Olsen was bullied.
Again, this is not true. Not by a long shot.
This is not to say that Ms.Gentry-Fletcher knew what she was telling district leaders was not true. In fact, we believe she and many other district officials had no idea about the bullying Emilie endured over two years at Fairfield.
The question is, why was Emilie's bullying kept a secret, and who covered it up? A federal court will find out, if this group doesn't do it first. There is a paper trail on this, Fairfield City Schools. It's just a matter of time before someone pieces it all together.
The e-mails between Emilie's parents and school officials prove that she was bullied, and that numerous people at Fairfield City Schools knew about it. The incident report below from October 21st, 2014 at Fairfield Middle School proves it. See for yourself.
Above are the eyewitness reports submitted regarding an October 21st, 2014 incident in the cafeteria where Emilie Olsen was the target of bullying. We know for a fact that at least one administrator at Fairfield Middle School knew about this incident. Assistant Principal Mark Rice is identified by name in the documents, and was the school employee that sent those students involved in the incident to the office. The question is, who at the office took these statements, and was also aware of this incident?
There was also a long line of e-mails to administrators at two Fairfield buildings which proved that the district was informed by Emilie's parents about the harassment she was enduring. See for yourself e-mails which prove bullying occurred and the school knew about it:
That's just not true, according to the excerpt below from the Fairfield Township Police Report:
As you can see for yourself, a specific alleged bully was named, but his or her name was redacted by our group. Moreover, nowhere are locker articles mentioned by the police in their report. Perhaps some of Emilie's items were brought home, but it is obvious that the simultaneous arrival of Mr. Butts and police at the Olsen home was no coincidence.
As we have stated before at length in a previous blog entry, what Fairfield City Schools wants us to believe is that one of it's administrators and law enforcement were together at 10:30 AM for a span of time, and then all arrived at the same location 90 minutes later, and it was all just a happy coincidence. Neither party knew the other would end up at the Olsen home that day, December 16th, 2014, when both police and Mr.Butts were together an hour beforehand?
5. In her e-mail to district leaders, Ms.Gentry-Fletcher stated that the school resource officer at FMS would continue investigating the case. If this did take place, why didn't the officer - or anyone for that matter - inform the public of the findings of this wider investigation? Where is the report? Where is the investigation? Show us. Where were it's findings revealed?
We want to emphasize again that we have no evidence Ms.Gentry-Fletcher was engaging in a purposeful effort to mislead district leaders in her e-mail above from December 16, 2014.
All the same however, as we have demonstrated, her statements to leaders at Fairfield City Schools proved to be untrue. Why? How did this happen
Was the district spokesperson given bad information? If so, by whom? Where is the accountability at Fairfield City Schools?
Regardless of who uttered the first falsehood, or who may have also been duped by false statements other district employees might have uttered, the bottom line is, Fairfield City Schools lied, and Emilie Olsen died. The district has yet to own up or admit to this deception of the public. How can we trust these people?
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