Damned if this doesn’t sound like an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show. Maybe even the Rikki Lake Show.
A few weeks ago, four students at Oprah’s prestigious Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa were accused of sexual misconduct. Sexual assault, to be precise. Now they’ve told a South African newspaper that academy officials held them in solitary confinement for two weeks before booting them out the door of the prestigious boarding school.
Security guards were positioned outside their rooms, they were forbidden to attend class or communicate with their friends, and meals were brought to their rooms.
Unfortunately, the girls were just too darned upset to eat. “I asked myself, ‘What’s the point?'” said one of the girls. “I’m going to be expelled anyway.”
Oprah’s spokesperson said the girls were punished with “in-school suspension.” And those security guards? Well, they were there simply to assure the girl’s safety.
We say the little hussies got off easy. They’re lucky Oprah didn’t fly down to South Africa with her best friend Gail and a cat o’ nine tails just to give ’em a lesson they won’t get anywhere this side of a Robert Mugabe’s prison camp.
But that’s just us.
Source: New York Post
