Bullies Sla-pped New Girl Cheerleader — Unaware Her Father Is A Hell Angels
Chapter 33
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The room breathed.What happened next took 40 minutes.Coach Donna Reeves spoke. She'd been teaching and coaching for 30 years in this district, and she read from her legal pad in a clear voice, going through dates and times and observed incidents with the precision of someone who had decided, somewhere between Wednesday and Friday, that she was done calculating the cost of honesty. She described what she'd seen at practice. She described the atmosphere on the squad before and after Cass arrived. She described what a disruptive team member actually looked like in her experience, and the ways in which Cass Malone did not fit that description.When she sat down, two other squad members, girls who had been sitting in the back of the gallery and who Cass had barely spoken to, asked to make brief statements. They were short statements, careful, the kind that cost something to make in a town like Harlow Creek, but they made them.Then the committee questioned Tyler. The attorney tried to manage it, but Marsh ran a tight room, and she had been a professor before she was an administrator, and she had a specific talent for asking a question twice in slightly different ways that made it very difficult to give two different answers without the room noticing.Tyler described the hallway incident. Marsh played a section of Amber's parking lot recording. She asked Tyler if the details he just described matched the details he described in the recording. Tyler said he was simply remembering accurately. Marsh said that was interesting, because the account he'd given to the committee included three specific details—the location of Cass's locker relative to the water fountain, the number of students present, the phrase he had used about the bracelet—that were not in any official report, were not mentioned in the complaint, and could only have come from direct knowledge of the event.Tyler looked at his attorney. His attorney said, "My client has answered the question."Marsh wrote something down.Then she looked at Madison. "Ms. Greer," she said, "the technical team has indicated that the camera footage was deliberately deleted from the school system using an admin account accessed by you on Tuesday afternoon. Do you want to speak to that?"Madison's expression went very still. "I was checking the practice room schedule," she said."The log shows 22 minutes of admin activity and the deletion of six files from the main hallway camera covering last Wednesday," Marsh said. "The practice room schedule is a 30-second operation."Madison looked at the table. "I'd like to speak with an attorney," she said.