Oprah Girls School Sex Scandal Number 2

Oprah Winfrey’s girls school in South Africa has been rocked by a second sex scandal in less than two years. This time the accused are students.

According to the newspaper Afrikaans on Sunda, seven students were suspended last week for sexually harassing their schoolmates. One 15-year-old was accused of preying on another pupil and forcing other girls to lie to investigators about it. A letter read to her parents read:

"You have been found guilty of physical contact of a sexual nature with another pupil on campus, harassment, bullying other girls on campus, and of being dishonest by not telling investigators the whole truth."

Other girls were caught fondling each other or trying to get other girls to join them in lesbian acts.

Oprah’s spokesperson, Lisa Halliday, confirmed the girls had been suspended from the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy School for Girls, but gave few details:

"”Several students were expelled last week for violating the Leadership Academy’s code of conduct. We consider this to be a confidential school matter. Therefore, we will not confirm any personal information or disclose any details related to these expulsions.”"

Ten months after the school was opened, Winfrey sobbed uncontrollably after 15 girls reported they had been sexually abused by a matron who was supposed to be watching over them. Oprah said at the time:

"I am a mama bear when it comes to protecting my children. These girls are like my children. That’s not just rhetoric for me. I take their futures and the possibility for what their futures hold very seriously."

Other than suspended the lesbian girls molesting other girls at the school, there’s isn’t a lot Oprah, or school officials, can do. It was easier to deal with this problem when the offender was an adult. It seems that the underlying problem is a lack of appropriate adult supervision exists at the school. Perhaps the girls are spending too much time alone. Perhaps the school should rethink their approach, and perhaps mimic other successful private schools from around the world, where sexual abuse does not appear to be a problem.