Mother says 4-year-old forced into sex act on bus

Worcester (MA) Telegram and Gazette ^ | 1/15/03

[pabianice]

BOSTON-- Police are investigating a report from a mother who said her 4-year-old son was forced to perform oral sex on two boys, ages 6 and 12, as they rode home on a school bus last month, school officials said.

The 4-year-old boy, a special education pupil, told his mother the 12-year-old threatened to “beat and stab him” if he didn't perform the sex act, his mother told The Boston Globe.

“He told me the 12-year-old pulled down his pants and told another 6-year-old to pull down his pants. My son said if he didn't do it, he was going to get stabbed and beat,” said Ebony Wise. The Globe said she agreed to be quoted by name because of her anger over the case.

Wise said she told school administrators and filed a police report the next morning.

Wise said officials continue to allow the 12-year-old to go to school, though they have barred him from the bus, which transports children from prekindergarten through fifth grade.

Police would not comment on Wise's allegations or discuss the investigation.

“We don't comment on sexual assault cases because of the nature of the crime,” Nadine-Taylor-Miller, a police spokeswoman, said yesterday.

School officials confirmed the Police Department's sexual assault unit and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office are investigating.

The mother said her son, who is in counseling, is wetting the bed and is scared to go to school.

“My son is petrified of this boy,” said Wise. “People at the school said they can assure me of his safety, but I don't feel safe, and my son does not feel safe in school.”

School Department spokesman Jonathan Palumbo said in sexual assault cases, the school principal has the discretion in deciding whether to suspend pupils during the investigation.

“In this case, the principal made the decision that until the sexual assault unit completes its investigation, the older student will remain in school.” Palumbo said a disciplinary hearing will be held soon.

Gail Forbes-Harris, principal of the boy's school, declined to discuss the specifics of the case, but said the matter was handled promptly under school guidelines.

“The day the incident occurred, we contacted our office, three psychologists came, we contacted the therapists who deal with these students, and we provided counseling through the family,” she said.

[pabianice]

Where else but Massachusetts, huh? Parents note if considering moving to the Child Abuse State ("It's not abuse; it's an alternate lifestyle!")

This follows last week's news of a 14-year-old girl performing oral sex on a 15-year-old-boy on a Massachusetts school bus while other students cheered. The school's administrators have refused to condemn the act, siting "privacy issues."

[Support Free Republic]

Raise Your Hand If You Want To Donate To Free Republic!
	Donate Here By Secure Server Or mail checks to FreeRepublic , LLC PO BOX 9771 FRESNO, CA 93794 or you can use PayPal at Jimrob@psnw.com
STOP BY AND BUMP THE FUNDRAISER THREAD

[The Old Hoosier]

FReepers, take your kids out of public schools....NOW!

[gramho12]

I know this is a news piece, and that is why it is posted here. However, the very idea that articles like this appear in newspapers, etc helps to promote more insidious behavior.

Call me old-fashioned and out-of-step, but when I was a kid (and yes, I guess I am in the old category), the word rape was barely allowed to be used in print. There was discretion used in the newsroom years ago, and this "let-everything-be-printed-in-detail" approach because it is protected under the first amendment is pure bunk.

This is what yellow, sensationalist "journalism" is all about these days. Combine that with absent fathers and kids who have seen it all, and this is the behaviour you get.

Makes me ill.

[Diogenesis]

This was an evil "gift" from Clinton and Lopez (Cuban Judge in Massachusetts,
who like X42 winks at rape of children and interns).

In Massachusetts, children are taken from their parents routinely
but there is NO judicial accountability or accountability of rape of children by priests.

[nicmarlo]

Wise said officials continue to allow the 12-year-old to go to school, though they have barred him from the bus, which transports children from prekindergarten through fifth grade.

Allowed to remain in school, just like the teenagers who had oral sex on the school bus.....but the boy in Colorado who played with a laser light for 90 seconds last week got expelled from school for one year.

INSANITY, all across America, thanks to the liberal agenda: THEIR SEX EDUCATION PROGRAMS are having wonderful effects, aren't they?

[2timothy3.16]

My guess would be that if this woman loved her son enough to home school him, this wouldn't have happened.

Just a guess mind you, but one that I would doubt any would argue with. Except perhaps here on FreeRepublic and in the halls of congress of course.

[from occupied ga]

Barny Frank should be proud of these two

[nicmarlo]

if this woman loved her son enough to home school him, this wouldn't have happened.

Surely, you jest. I love my children very much, but could not stay home and homeschool them. That's really a very judgmental and unfair statement.

[AppyPappy]

$10 says she puts him back on the bus.

[Corin Stormhands]

My guess would be that if this woman loved her son enough to home school him...

It may not have happened if the kid was homeschooled. But your insinuation that home schooling parents love their kids more is ludicrous.

[cinFLA]

My guess would be that if this woman loved her son enough to home school him, this wouldn't have happened.

Not every parent has the knowhow and resources to homeschool.

[Stingray51]

Interesting that pre-schoolers, tiny little children, are being placed on any school bus, let alone one with middle school / junior high school age students. It seems to me that children this age should be walked or driven to school by their parents.

[headsonpikes]

I think we can all take comfort in the fact that "...the matter was handled promptly under school guidelines."

Thank God, no public employee will be held accountable for anything, at any time.

[2timothy3.16]

i would think he has already called the four year old for a date.

[2timothy3.16]

Horse dung! any parent that isn't smarter than his four year old is to dumb to procreate, why even my wife and I can homeschool, now think about that, would you be willin to say that you are less qualified than me to teach a kid?

[2timothy3.16]

Not every parent has the knowhow and resources to homeschool.

Horse dung! any parent that isn't smarter than his four year old is to dumb to procreate, why even my wife and I can homeschool, now think about that, would you be willin to say that you are less qualified than me to teach a kid?

[ZinGirl]

if this woman loved her son enough to home school him, this wouldn't have happened

let me get this straight....this incident is the boy's mother's fault?

[twigs]

Yours is a legitimate gripe. My best friend was sexually assualted by her father when she was seven years old. We are now in our late 40's. The entire event was published in the paper, along with names. The family had to move from the area to protect the children, and they did they have the means with which to move. I think much can be said about using much more wisdom about what is reported. These things do need to be reported (if there's a rapist in the neighborhood, people need to know), but I do not believe that the media outlet needs to emulate pornography in order to do its reporting.

[alloysteel]

South Park is no longer in Colorado, it is now located in Massachusetts. And Eric Cartman is given free rein to do just as he pleases. Stan and Kyle still have to put up with the indignities, unless they can get Butters to be the fall guy.