Father of Katy, Texas Female Assault Victim Speaks | Political News

As RedState reported on Saturday, a feminine high faculty scholar in Katy, Texas, was punched after which overwhelmed by a male soccer participant, and the video of the altercation went viral. Taylor High School, the place each college students attend, and the Katy Independent School District (Katy ISD) dismissed the video proof as a result of they claimed it lacked “full context,” although the video confirmed that the soccer participant initiated the assault and continued to pursue the sufferer to beat her down. 

The faculty and the district deemed it a “mutual confrontation” and suspended each college students. Katy ISD additionally requested that folks and the group “delete” any cases of the video from social media.

WARNING: Disturbing photographs and robust language.

VIDEO: Katy ISD requested dad and mom to delete any proof of the struggle that passed off involving a male alleged soccer participant beating a feminine scholar. pic.twitter.com/XYLgTGh1aP

— Tony Ortiz (Current Revolt) (@CurrentRevolt) April 4, 2025

Brooklynn Gianfrancesco, the 15-year-old sufferer of the assault, and her father, Danny Gianfrancesco, have been demanding to be heard and that Brooklynn get justice for the assault. According to a spokesperson for the Gianfrancescos, each father and daughter are being subjected to a stonewall and a retaliation marketing campaign, and the evidentiary and investigative supplies Danny Gianfrancesco wants so as to have the ability to file expenses to gain that justice for his daughter are intentionally being withheld.

Both Brooklynn and Mr. Gianfrancesco spoke out on April 22 on the Katy ISD Board of Trustees Meeting, which was alleged to be a group dialogue about modifying Katy ISD’s self-defense coverage. Despite a trustee’s attempt to steer him away from dialogue of the assault, Danny Gianfrancesco spoke for 3 minutes and aired his frustrations.

When Mr. Gianfrancesco first began to talk about the violent assault, he was interrupted by a trustee and requested to limit his feedback.

TRUSTEE: Okay, sir, sir, I, I, I wanna make sure that you simply keep on with speaking about coverage, not in regards to the particular incident or explicit or explicit people.

GIANFRANSCESCO: Okay, let’s speak about, umm, how you dealt with this “mutual confrontation.” I used to be advised that this incident was a mutual confrontation, however one scholar by no means hit the opposite. There’s a video on the market that exhibits proof that this one scholar was assaulted, bodily assaulted, and who I talked to didn’t settle for the video assistant principals, cops. I’ve been in all places… to speaking—

The trustee again interrupted Mr. Gianfrancesco. It appears they have been intent on pretending that the assault in query was not the explanation behind the assembly of the Board to deal with altering their self-defense coverage. Kind of obtuse on their half.

TRUSTEE: Again, I simply wanna, I simply wanna warning you, we’re not, we’re not, we’re not evaluating that particular occasion right here.

GIANFRANCESCO: This must be heard—

TRUSTEE: We’re not addressing a particular—

At this level, Mr. Gianfrancesco had had enough.

GIANFRANCESCO: Okay, how about this? I filed public info request the day after it occurred. Three weeks later, as a substitute of transparency, I acquired two paperwork: a ineffective, closely redacted report of which I’ve given you all a copy. And it claims to be the offense report, however the one factor reported on these six pages is my title and deal with. Everything else is redacted.

As the Katy ISD and the Board of Trustees no doubt know, if there’s no documented hurt, together with the video, it’s tough to compile a case of assault. Mr. Gianfrancesco continued to speak in regards to the methods he was being stonewalled, together with the Katy ISD legal professional’s letter to the legal professional basic searching for permission to disclaim Mr. Gianfrancesco entry to the opposite proof and supplies compiled.

Is an legal professional required to do that when it’s a “mutual confrontation?” Inquiring minds wish to know.

GIANFRANCESCO: The different doc, a letter written by the legal professional, written to the legal professional basic from the, KISD legal professional, I’m sorry, Gretchen McCord, wherein she seeks permission to disclaim me entry to all different proof and materials associated. To my request comparable to physique cam footage, statements from witnesses, the video from the hallway.

I’ve been to Harris County Sheriff’s Office, district legal professional, constables, everyone refers me back to KISD police who’ve the jurisdiction and refused to permit me to press expenses. Do you recognize what it seems like when people ask me why have not I pressed expenses towards the coed who assaulted my daughter?

How can I, when the very system that ought to assist me is actively working towards me? I’ve tried every little thing.

Mr. Gianfrancesco known as the Board of Trustees to the carpet for the insurance policies of the Katy ISD, which appear to be crafted not for the safety of the dad and mom or the scholars, however of the district. 

The workers at these faculties make selections below the blanket of confidentiality, and oldsters have no recourse, he stated.

Mr. Gianfrancesco then demanded that the investigation be reopened, the video proof be put into consideration, and that the self-defense coverage be modified to state that bodily contact solely turns into mutual if the one that is assaulted truly retaliates. He then alerted the Board of Trustees that he wouldn’t enable this to be swept below the rug.

GIANFRANCESCO: I’m not going away. I cannot be bullied by KISD to be silent. […] This is not nearly my daughter, it is about each father or mother who trusts faculties to guard their youngsters. The more you struggle us, the larger [unintelligible].

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The Trustees cut him off with a “Thank you,” and Mr. Gianfrancesco acquired a spherical of applause from the viewers.

But that subsequent day, on Wednesday, Mr. Gianfrancesco appeared on KTRH AM 740 Houston’s “Morning News with Shara & Jim,” and reiterated to the host that, “They are making it impossible for me to file charges and do what is right by my daughter.”

Mr. Gianfrancesco additionally disputed accounts that his daughter additionally went after the soccer participant as soon as the initial punch by him was thrown. “There wasn’t wrestling on the ground, Gianfrancesco stated. 

He was pummeling her […] and saying some actually dangerous stuff to her whereas he is on high of her on the ground. So, this wasn’t similar to a slap, or stop speaking to me. This man was out for blood. He was going after her like she killed his pet.

From Mr. Gianfrancesco’s telling, the investigation was dealt with poorly and there was a rush to put the entire thing to mattress. Mr. Gianfrancesco stated that past the three-day suspension each college students acquired, the soccer participant “didn’t skip a beat.”

On the opposite hand, Brooklynn Gianfrancesco seems to be receiving unequal therapy. Mr. Gianfrancesco stated they tried to kick his daughter off the volleyball workforce, and now they’re requiring her to run after faculty for 10 days as punishment. 

I’m having a downside with that proper now. Because why… anyone that sees this video–common sense, I imply it is blatant: it is an assault, she did not even have time to struggle back. She was being pummeled.

The host requested Mr. Gianfrancesco if he was going to seek out a solution to in the end press expenses. Gianfrancesco answered,

They’re [Katy ISD] gonna play video games for a long time. But we’re gonna get all our geese in a row and I’m coming after everyone. This may have been simple if that they had simply accomplished the precise factor from the start, however now it is my personal mission to get justice for my daughter. 

Danny Gianfresco is a single dad to Brooklynn, and based on his spokesperson, has restricted sources with which to battle a faculty district. As a press release from his spokesperson detailing their battle acknowledged:

Because she and her father, Danny Gianfrancesco, are actively searching for solutions and justice, Brooklyn has been subjected to dangerous conduct from workers and college students, and no longer feels protected to attend her high faculty in Katy ISD.

In Brooklynn Gianfrancesco’s shorter speech earlier than the board, she acknowledged that she no longer felt protected in her faculty or in her city.

Violence shouldn’t be labeled as mutual when a male scholar slaps a feminine scholar, Brooklynn started. 

When the feminine scholar seeks for help from the instructor and is ignored and turning into uncomfortable to go to highschool as a result of.. as a result of I’ve, um, I really feel uncomfortable, as if I’ve a goal on my back on account of my dad and I making an attempt to get justice for what’s clearly an assault. I’m receiving soiled appears from workers and college students and I do not really feel as if that is a protected surroundings for me any more. 

What message are we sending everyone following this subject? Are we saying that it is okay for a male athlete or any male to assault a feminine scholar and that the varsity punishes each events equally? What occurred to me on March twenty fifth was clearly an assault anyplace else besides my faculty[…]

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Also referenced within the press release and even more gorgeous: The Katy ISD is trying to blunt the free speech rights not solely of the Gianfrancescos, however of others who stand in assist of their battle. Along with the Katy ISD post requesting dad and mom and the group to delete any cases of the video altercation, the spokesperson alleges that Katy ISD is suppressing a petition that’s circulating round city. The Change.org online petition calls for that Katy ISD take motion to not solely modify their self-defense coverage, however to totally examine this altercation and to convey expenses towards Brooklynn Gianfrancesco’s assailant.

Since household and supporters began this marketing campaign to stop this violence and get justice for Brooklyn, Katy ISD has aggressively enacted a marketing campaign to silence us online and within the media, and are actively making an attempt to cover our petition.  While hundreds proceed to signal our petition, we’d have close to 100,000 signatures by now if Katy ISD was not utilizing their billion-dollar finances and sources to overpower us and intimidate us.  Anyone who desires to signal it or help us unfold the phrase might accomplish that.  We need all of the help we will get.

The spokesperson shined the highlight on the historical past of Katy ISD and its insurance policies being detrimental to college students and oldsters.

If you have a look at the feedback on the petition you will notice Danny’s household is only one of in all probability a whole bunch of households who’ve been harmed by Katy ISD and their insurance policies.  You don’t simply have to take a look at the petition to see the suggestions—people all around the nation are posting their Katy ISD tales. And once they post their tales, Katy ISD is shortly having each one of them eliminated—all around the web and throughout social media.

In 2024, Katy ISD skilled a main controversy when one of its academics at one other high faculty was arrested and charged with possession of little one porn. This instructor occurred to be married to the principal of Taylor High School: the identical faculty Brooklynn Gianfrancesco attends, and the place she was attacked.

A Texas faculty principal’s husband has been accused of producing little one abuse supplies on faculty grounds and distributing it on the darkish web.

James Stone, who teaches at Tompkins High School in Katy, was taken into custody on Monday on 10 counts of possessing and producing what police say are hundreds of photographs involving minors. 

Police say the 53-year-old admitted to producing the photographs, some of which have been taken on faculty grounds.

He can be effectively of taking photographs at varied native swimming swimming pools and different locations in Katy. 

Police claimed that the photographs have been distributed on ‘the darkish web.’

His spouse Melinda Stone, the principal of Taylor High School, wrote two emails to the varsity group following his arrest and stated she was chopping ties together with her husband.

According to reviews, the investigation of this crime remains to be ongoing. So, it’s attainable that Katy ISD would relatively not see one other occasion of its failure to guard its college students making worldwide headlines.

That ship might have sailed. If Danny Gianfrancesco has something to do with it, his petition for justice for his daughter Brooklynn will stay on the forefront, domestically and break by means of nationally, till he and his household obtain the redress they deserve.