Posted on 10/15/2004 7:54:16 AM PDT by esryle
(10/14/04 - MISSOURI CITY, TX) — A family's ordeal -- their little boy sexually assaulted by a six-year-old at school. The incident happened inside the boys' bathroom. Letters were sent home to parents, but some say the school is not doing enough to protect its students.
Since the alleged attacker is younger than 10 years old, he cannot be charged criminally in the state of Texas. Fort Bend Independent school district has punished him some, but the victim's parents say that's not enough because he still attends the same school.
"He took the innocence away from my child," said the victim's mother, who did not want to be identified. "I mean, that's something I can never get back -- ever." The woman says her son was victimized inside a bathroom at Palmer Elementary school on September 14. Her son told her he was in a stall when another boy stripped his own clothes off, crawled inside and forced himself on him.
"Put him against the wall and rubbed himself on my son's bottom," she explained. "And then he reached around and grabbed the front of my son -- his private area -- and then he took his other hand and reached around and inserted his finger."
The victim told a teacher, but the boy's mother says she wasn't told about it for nearly three hours, when she arrived at the school to pick the boy up. She says a teacher told her that a boy had "messed with" her son, and that's it.
What's more, the mother says the school failed to take the boy to the school nurse, let alone a doctor. She says the district has minimized the seriousness of this incident.
The Fort Bend ISD says it handled the incident carefully and took it very seriously. But a spokesperson says their hands were tied because the victim didn't tell them all the details he told his mother.
Fort Bend ISD Spokesperson Mary Ann Simpson said, "It did not indicate he had been physically injured or was in any pain or anything like that. Had that been the case – had he described in detail what he later described had occurred to him – he would have immediately been sent to the school nurse."
School officials say they did try to contact the boy's mother, leaving a message at her home.
They have punished the alleged attacker, but legally can't say how. All the victim's mother knows is that child is still at the same school as her son – a place that every day her son now fears.
The victim's parents have hired an attorney and are considering some legal action.
The six-year-old boy accused of assault remains at the school. However, the Fort Bend County ISD student code of conduct states, "Students must be placed in a disciplinary alternative education program if the student commits an assault on school property." A school spokesperson tells us the six-year-old was not removed because of his age.
I'd be going insane right now if that happened to one of my kids.
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Someone needs to find out what is going on with the boy before he becomes a life-long molester.
Well, read this. The mother of this victim in Camden, NJ, admittedly the dregs of the world and the last place God made, was given a truancy summons because when her child was assaulted in school, and the principal did absolutely nothing about it, the mother pulled her kid out.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20041013.shtml
NCLB? Somewhat of a joke and a scam.
The six year old assaulter needs more than punishment. He needs to be removed from the abusive situation that he is in which precipitated this attack. He needs extensive therapy.
When I was in junior high we had an assistant principal that was sort of a wise ass.
I had also been a wise ass and was grounded and expected to come straight home from school. But I couldn’t come straight home from school (at regular time) because I was constantly in detention hall because my dad refused to sign my report card and send it back to the school. He had torn it up and thrown it away.
So about the third day I came dragging home late, dad loads me in the car and hauls me down to the school. Assistant principal was still in his office. Dad announces who he is and tells the principal that I’m being grounded and I’m expected to be straight home at regular school-quitting time.
Further tells him that he (dad) is the one that refused to sign the report card, but that he did see it, and not to expect it to be returned because it was destroyed by him. Also tells the principal that if he wants to send someone to detention he can try to send him because he’s the one that isn’t going to be signing that particular report card.
I also recall that he said something about how it would be a cold, cold damn day in hell before he (dad) took marching orders from an assistant principal at a junior high.
The assistant principal came back with some sort of remark that was evidently unacceptable. Dad tells me to go wait in the car.
About two minutes later he comes out and I notice he’s got blood spots on his shirt that don’t appear to be from him. We go home and that’s the end of it.
The assistant principal quit or something. Never saw him at the school after that. No police, no arrest, no court case, nothing. See a problem, fix a problem. Quite a few problems have been fixed like that in the past, I suspect.
It's possible that he's been sexually assaulted or watched adults having sex. There are other possible explanations, including the presence of pornography that the child could have access to or even pornography over the Internet. The Internet is like New York City. There are plenty of great things there for children to see but you should never drop them off on a corner and let them explore without supervision.
Shocking.
IF AND ONLY IF this is what actually happened.
Look, as the father of two, I'm definitely outraged if this really happened. I also know that in questioning my children it is VERY easy to place thoughts in their heads that simply weren't there. And children have a VERY non-adult intepretation of truth - their minds interpret actions and determine truth very loosely.
Perhaps the mother asked him point-blank, "Did he put his finger up your butt?" Well shoot, whether he did or not, the boy now has that thought in his head. Having met with CPS on a couple of occasions (after they were called vindictively on us), my wife and I are fully aware, as are most *professional* social workers, that questioning children is a very delicate process so as not to contaminate their understanding of what happened.
That said, investigate the adults.
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My sentiments exactly. The school should look into that.
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"where did this kid learn something like that."
At home.
Sexual predators are of all ages. I had a rental and a horrible incident where an 8 year old girl assaulted two 6 year old girls. Social Services, etc. would do nothing because they were within 3 years of age of each other.
"I am much afraid that schools will prove to be great gates of Hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where The Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt." -- Martin Luther
You are really wrong. Playing doctor is normal. What happened hear was acting out learned behavior. Someone terribly abused the abuser and now he is abusing. This isn't normal. This is terrible. Both kids are scarred for life. And I don't think this young abuser has only done this this one time.
But you're depriving them of such wonderful socialization experiences! < /sarcasm
Yep,
Sounds like the 6 year old has been abused on a regular basis. Like I read in a chart one time '....the boy from infancy had been passed around by his mother and father to various friends of both genders.'
You have got quite a Dad.
Mr Sol
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