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Local initiative offering free formal dresses to local girls - Seymour Tribune

Posted: 28 Feb 2020 10:06 PM PST

CROTHERSVILLE

Tiffany Reynolds realizes formal dresses can be expensive.

She said some prom dresses can cost several hundred dollars. Having worked in retail for 25-plus years, she also has seen women spend $1,200 on a dress at a high-end clothing store and not think anything of it.

Not everyone has that luxury, she said.

That's why she has organized a formal dress giveaway through the The Helping Hearts initiative.

Since mid-January, she has been collecting short and long dresses of a variety of colors, sizes and styles. She wound up with nearly 100.

"Everybody here is kind of working middle class, and sometimes, it's hard for parents to take care of everything they need to take care of at home and provide those extras," she said. "When everybody steps in and does it together, it just makes it so much easier for everyone."

On Feb. 22, she conducted a giveaway event in the cafetorium at Crothersville Community Schools. Even though it didn't go as well as she hoped, Reynolds is still determined to give the dresses away to local girls who need them with prom and other formal dances coming up.

"By doing something like this for the girls, it will alleviate some of the financial pressure for parents," Reynolds said. "Maybe their daughter wants to go get her hair done before the prom, but if they bought a prom dress, they couldn't do that. Maybe she wants a manicure or pedicure or something like that so that she's able to go."

Several of the dresses that were donated are brand-new and still have the tags attached. One of Reynolds' friends didn't have a dress to donate, so she bought a new one and took it by her house. Then Saturday, a woman brought one of her daughter's dresses to add to the collection.

"I had posted a timeline of things that we wanted to do as a group, and the prom event was one of them, so people knew ahead of time that, 'Hey, here's what we're preparing for,'" Reynolds said.

She started The Helping Hearts in November 2018 as a communitywide project to help the students of Crothersville Community Schools with items needed for school.

A back-to-school event allowed students to pick out a backpack and any clothing or shoes they needed at no cost, and more than 200 winter coats were given out through a winter clothing drive.

"That was pretty big, and those were donations from not only in our community but people in surrounding communities just reaching out saying, 'Hey, we have these items,'" Reynolds said.

Also, around 80 families benefited from a clothing giveaway set up inside a shop in town.

"Those are mainly from Crothersville, but we had so much left over, we just opened it up to surrounding communities," she said.

One woman from out of town came by and picked out like-new clothes that she could wrap and give to her children for Christmas. Otherwise, they wouldn't have received anything for the holiday.

"She was extremely thankful," Reynolds said.

She also had several people in town come in to get items for their kids and at the same time donate a few bags of clothes they had outgrown.

Reynolds said it has been great to see people respond to her Facebook posts requesting specific needs for local children.

"We had a specific need for something, I post it and within four or five minutes, I had somebody say, 'Oh, I have this. I can donate this. Do you know someone that can use this?'" she said. "It was really nice to be able to do that."

The Helping Hearts also has a Spare Change Challenge underway. All money collected will be donated to Crothersville Community Schools to pay off students' outstanding lunch account balances and book rental fees.

Collection buckets are at Crothersville Town Hall, Beauty from Ashes Tattoo Parlor and Cerrowire, all in Crothersville.

On the Web

For information about The Helping Hearts, visit facebook.com/thehelpingheartsofcrothersville.

Student at Thunderbird H.S. in Phoenix accused of filming under girls' clothes - AZFamily

Posted: 18 Feb 2020 12:00 AM PST

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS5) -- A student at Thunderbird High School in Phoenix is accused of secretly videotaping underneath the clothing of his female classmates. Austin Roberts, 18, faces one felony count surreptitious photographing or videotaping.

[VIDEO: First court appearance for high school student accused of filming up classmates' skirts]

The investigation began back in December, when Roberts' classmates noticed what was allegedly happening and contacted staffers. The assistant principal then went to Roberts' classroom and seized his phone. According to the police report, Roberts admitted "he had a video on his phone that was inappropriate." The victim said she was not seeking prosecution; she just wanted the video to be deleted.

When the assistant principal deleted the video in question, he went to the phone's "deleted file" to make sure the video was completely gone. But, in the deleted file, "he observed a large amount of other videos that the defendant took of other females at the school," according to the police report. "Many of the videos were of the defendant placing his phone up the skirts of the females."

The assistant principal confiscated the phone and contacted the school resource officer. Roberts was suspended from school and sent home with his mother. The phone was turned over to police, who say that a forensic download of the contents of the phone turned up "multiple videos of the defendant following females around the school, in classrooms, in the hallway and on the staircase."

"He would turn his camera phone video recorder on and position the phone up under their skirts in order to videotape their [private parts,]" stated the police report.

Police say they found videos of approximately seven different females. Three of them were identified as students, and told police "they never gave the defendant permission to videotape them under their skirts." All three say they desired prosecution.

Roberts was booked into the Fourth Avenue Jail in Phoenix.