Sexual Predators In The 1st Grade?

Submitted by Jeanne Gibson on May 10, 2006 - 3:50pm.

Moral Decay In The First Grade?

This morning I read where 12 first and second grade boys had sexually assaulted an 8-year-old girl on the playground of their school during recess. Does that make you violently ill as it did me? My children are past that age, but if students in the first and second grades are behaving in this way, what are the older ones doing?

The article left me with several unanswered questions.

1. Why weren’t these children under adult supervision? If they were under adult supervision, why wasn’t action taken immediately? According to the news item, another child finally reported the incident before a teacher went to check on the group of boys standing around a girl who was lying on the ground in the midst of their circle.

3. What would I do if it had been my daughter being assaulted? I think my first action would be to yank her out of that school as fast as I possibly could and get her some counseling for the trauma this is bound to cause. Secondly, I would take immediate steps to hire legal counsel to make sure this would never happen to another little girl in that school.

Isn’t it about time that parents step up to the plate and demand adequate supervision of children whether at home, around the neighborhood, or at school, and demand that the entertainment industry once more make wholesome entertainment available for the whole family.

Lack of morals is not cool!

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what do you mean sexually

#57271 On May 10, 2006 5:48pm James Champion said,
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what do you mean sexually assaulted? Rape? Touch?

The article didn't go into

#57275 On May 10, 2006 6:55pm Jeanne Gibson said,

The article didn't go into details.

i'm not saying it's right butt...

#57285 On May 10, 2006 7:59pm James Champion said,
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oh ok. I think that when I was a very young I was very aware of my attraction to the opposite sex and showed it. I am not sure I ever sexually assaulted anyone, but I feel like I saw some things happen on the playground that would be construed as sexual assault. I am not saying it's right. I am just saying that everything is so overpublicized nowadays. Some kid probably touched a classmate's hiney. He should be reprimanded by his parents, but I don't think it's that huge of a deal. It certainly doesn't need to make the news. But I do not know the details so I am speaking from a position of ignorance.

i know

#60084 On August 23, 2006 8:49am Trishzen said,

you're right parents do need to step up to the plate. Please check out my lastest blog post and some of the parenting mistakes that could be causing children to behave in such a way. I've watched my cousin turn her boy into a monster...being a sexual deveant at 7, and she'll do nothing about it.

Boundaries

#64735 On May 8, 2007 4:08am xingtiao said,

Boundaries are important and in this confused and freedom greedy world we have lost our sense of what boundaries are worth having. The base value for me is don't mess with children's private bits. During fifteen years I listened to the stories of adults and children who were messed with that way and the psychological damage done to them was enormous. If you do that stuff you had betterclear your head of whatever reasons you give yourself to say it is ok to keep doing it. You have no idea what damage you are doing. Of course, if you are one of the people that had it done to them you do know but you've told yourself some story that lets you make someone else go through the same stuff. Maybe you say 'It didn't do me any harm so it won't do them any harm'. Look into your head. You know that's a lie. Just stop it.

Good post Ms Gibson. Why do some people let their kids watch sexual stuff on TV. Is that open mindedness or simple mindedness? Kids copy. That's how they learn. If they play sexual games as kids they will think those games are 'just kids stuff' later and will have no boundaries to stop them doing things to kids when they are adult. is that what you want to breed, people? I am ahppy my kids are adults now and have strong boundaries. I know they won't do those things becasuse I clearly labelled those things in my kids formative years. Go for clear boundaries and ignore people who call you conservative or uncool or whatever. Be proud of it.

If the value of each human being is equal to the value of the one you love why would you ever participate in killing by war or any other activity with deadly intent. http://bloggerparty.com/blog/xingtiao (general but centred on China) http://www.soulcast

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