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.
Sorry, but we don't want hot-tempered adults beating up school officials. A simple letter stating that he ripped up the report card and a follow-up call so that the administrator knew the letter was authentic would be sufficient.
Today, Dad would get 5-10 years and do two and the child would be removed from the home.
Having said that, nothing but nothing works better than an inquiry letter from a lawyer.
Have to agree with Martin on that one.
All of the folks who dislike homeschoolers think this is a normal and accepted part of socializing the 6 year old to interact with other children.
You are nuts. The psychological damage came when the perp stuck his finger in the young boys buttand tried to mount him. Come on get real. With your logic let just forget rape of a 16 year old. If we don't address it there is not any damage,right? sicko
Take one guess. It sounds like there were two victims in that stall. So freakin sad.
[B]"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[/B]
That is a great quote from wise old Martin Luther.
Homeschooling parents do not have to worry about their precious innocent ones falling prey to sexual abusers at school. The public schools of America have become cesspools.
Who would send their child out to learn in a cesspool?
Thanks for the excellent and profound Luther quote. Where God is not welcome, Satan reigns.
This happened 19 years ago when I was in elementary school. I believe that the type of kids who do these things are molested at home.
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