A high school athlete who confessed videotaping an Asian student with her pants down while urinating and posting it on Instagram was allowed to play in a championship game, reports the East Bay Times.

The star athlete at San Ramon Valley High School east of San Francisco had confessed to the incident and was suspended for three days.

“My daughter is suffering,” Denise Lynch said in an emotional speech to the school district board. “I don’t know how much more I need to tell you, that the sheer presence of this individual who committed this unspeakable crime towards her… every single day she’s on campus brings up unnecessary feelings for her that she’s reliving this over and over and over again.”

Lynch told the board everyday her daughter sees the bully brings terror back into her life. She said her daughter’s grades are dropping and she is not eating well.

The girl’s father, Sean Lynch, is a former police officer and accused the bully of a crime. He called the school district’s bullying policy “window dressing”

“The district uses progressive discipline, meaning that the type of discipline may in part depend on a student’s past behavioral history. We are also increasingly using restorative practices when possible,” said district spokesperson Elizabeth Graswich.

You can see video of the mother’s emotional plea to the school board in the East Bay Times.



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