CHICAGO (IL)
WBBM NEWSRADIO
August 17, 2018
By Craig Dellimore
A preliminary report on the Chicago Public School’s sex-abuse scandal shows CPS officials had no idea how much of a problem they had on their hands.
The preliminary findings issued by former federal prosecutor Maggie Hickey and her law firm are blistering in assessing how CPS handled thousands of reports of possible sexual harassment, child welfare alerts, and allegations of employee misconduct.
The report says the school system did not collect overall data to spot trends at certain schools or in specific areas, and so CPS failed to recognize the extent of the problem.
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