After a member of the public criticized Hamilton Southeastern (HSE) School officials for being silent and not being responsive to allegations of sexual assault, HSE School Board President Matt Burke responded.

“At the risk of doing something inappropriate here,  I am going to make a statement,” said Burke during the board meeting Wednesday night.  “The assumption that nothing is being done is ludicrous.  There are legal rights and their is a legal process that has to be followed.  We do not have a choice in that matter and we will follow a legal process and that legal process is being followed.  It will not necessarily follow the timeline that some people want, and I regret that, but I think the situation, personally, sucks, because this is not a situation that the school, in any way, created.  It was a situation that happened in the community, and we’ll have to let the process run its due course.”

Burke then said he would not discuss the issue any further.

News stories in the Indianapolis Star and television station WTHR have reported that a student at HSE High School has been investigated by police on rape allegations.  One story quotes a police officer as saying their investigation has been turned over to the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s office for a decision on whether charges should or should not be filed in that case.