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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.
My child would not return back to that school.
Somebody been messing with the older child, got to wonder about that.
This six-year-old has been abused, one way or another. A kid that age didn't figure out how to do this on his own...
where did this kid learn something like that.
I agree. And I wonder if that aspect of this horrible situation is being investigated.
Hm. Something's rotten in Denmark.
1. Did they question the adult staff?
2. Is it possible a little boy afraid of an adult would pin the blame on a 6 year-old?
3. Did they question the adult staff?
4. Did the 6 year-old confess?
5. Did they question the adult staff?
When my son was three, there was a little boy over, about six, who pulled his pants down and was examining his weenie. I sent the little boy home but I would not for a minute have considered charging him with sexually abusing my son. When this same son was about six, he was playing with a little girl the same age at her house and her mom called and said that they were "playing doctor." He and I had a talk and that was the end of it. Kids do this. I remember sharing that information with the little boy next door. He told him dad who told my parents and I was told that nice little girls didn't do that. Then I jumped him for tattling and beat him up. Heaven help us if we had had a big national story over it. I'm sure we would have both been traumatized.
Agreed. My eight year old boy and his buddies care more about their Yu-Gi-Oh cards and running around outside than icky girls/sex...at this point.
This is one of the many reason my wife & I home school our children.
I can't believe that Social Services and every county official has not removed the offending child from his environment.
It's up to you, kids!
Shut 'em down!
agree the pupitrater learned it somewhere. Wonder what the parents situation is? would be interesting. If they are 2 men, it won't be publicised!! This is what our society is coming to, protection for the perp, no protection for the victim. A lot of schools are teaching this kind of stuff to kids, that too is on the rise. GLAD and LGBT whatever, have a gradebook where they grade states on how well they are doing with "gay friendly" schools.
Sadly my state gets one of the top grades :( glad my son didn't attend school in any public schools. We went charter.
BANG! Dead on.
Kids imitate what they see and do.
curiosity is normal yes, THIS story is not. Normally children do not equate someones butt with anything but disgusting and smelly. They do not insert fingers there! Unless they have been taught.
And the six year old crawled under the bathroom door while the other little boy was using the bathroom which seems predatory to me.
My nephew had a bunch of those cards. What in the heck are they and where do you buy them?
My little man gets them off of ebay.
Yes it does.
A little off the subject, but, still in the interest of victim rights. An ordinance was recently passed in the next town here to protect transgender/transsexuals. Not clear on what it says since I avoid that town like the "plague" but it seems ot be centered around a gay bar asking a transexual to leave when he, who chooses to be viewed as a she, went to the ladies room.
Yes I know........what next!! My point here though, is that I think all public rest rooms, mens rooms that is, should have stalls installed around all urinal;s to protect the privacy of heterosexual men!!!!
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