Posted on 01/15/2003 12:09:24 PM PST by 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.
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."
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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.
In Massachusetts, children are taken from their parents routinely
but there is NO judicial accountability or accountability of rape of children by priests.
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?
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.
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.
It may not have happened if the kid was homeschooled. But your insinuation that home schooling parents love their kids more is ludicrous.
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?
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?
let me get this straight....this incident is the boy's mother's fault?
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