Family Battles Sex Assault Claim Against 6-Year-Old

[The Straight Story]

Family Battles Sex Assault Claim Against 6-Year-Old

HERCULES (CBS 5) – An East Bay dad claims a game of tag on the playground resulted in his 6-year-old son being accused of sexual assault – a decision he said was an overreaction by school officials.

The parent, who asked only to be identified as Oswin, said his son was accused of brushing his best friend’s leg or groin while the two were playing on the playground at Lupine Hills Elementary in Hercules two months ago.

Oswin said his child was kept in the principal’s office for two hours until he confessed. He was suspended, and a sexual battery charge was placed on his permanent school record.
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It wasn’t until Oswin and his wife got a lawyer that the school backed off. District officials declined to discuss specifics. They did confirm that an investigation was conducted, and that the child could not be charged with sexual battery. The claim was removed from the boy’s record.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/27/hercules-family-battles-playground-sex-assault-claim-against-6-year-old/

[SomethingFishy]

1. Man, what the fuck?

A 6 year old? Really? Playing a game of tag?

I'm at a loss here. There are not suitable words to describe the stupidity of this.

[Justice wanted]

4. Zero Tolerence = stupidity at it's finest. At the age of 6 kids only know the bare min of Sex like

I'm a boy and that person is a girl. And my six year old niece rough houses with her boy friends NOT boyfriend all the time.

[notadmblnd]

12. I remember when I was about 5, the boy that lived across the street and I had a pissing contest

there was absolutely nothing sexual. there was a big hole in his back yard and we wanted to see who could pee the farthest across it. boy did we get in trouble when we got caught.

[originalpckelly]

2. Even if he had, we used to believe that children were not capable of adult thinking in this country.

That they should not be held to account for everything they do, because they don't honestly understand the consequences of it.

Kind of sad to see 100 year old ideas look more modern than our current wet dream of vengeance.

[Kalidurga]

3. any reaction is an over reaction in this situation

If the situation happened as it reads, then it was just a game of tag. Someone saw something in that play situation that they most likely shouldn't have seen ie read something that was not there.

[RevStPatrick]

5. I believe that this is TOTALLY ridiculous!

However, I also believe that even 6 year-olds are sexual beings.
I remember being fascinated by the playboy magazine I found at that age.
I remember my sister talking about how her daughter in the crib would masturbate.
I remember my friend Jim telling me that when he was 2 or 3 years old, he knew he was really supposed to be a girl, and that he was going to have his penis removed as soon as he could figure out how.

Again, treating this child as a criminal is crazy, but we do need to acknowledge that although it is innocent, children are sexual creatures.

[Snake Alchemist]

6. I had slept with at least a dozen girls by the time I was 7. They called me Piccolo Pimp. nt

[Snake Alchemist]

7. This is why we can't have nice things in the U.S. nt

[bluestateguy]

8. My favorite people in the world: school administrators

nt

[Initech]

11. My mom goes on for hours about how horrible the administrators in her school district are.

I can totally understand it too.

[chrisa]

15. Dumbest people on the planet.

With apologies to dumb people, of course.

[lpbk2713]

9. Two hours is plenty of time for a severe case of intimidation to set in.

A six year old could have confessed to almost anything by that time.

[cpwm17]

13. Under pressure from adults, one can make kids confess to or accuse others of almost anything

In the 1980's there was the infamous McMartin Preschool Abuse Trial in California. It lasted years, when the McMartins were obviously innocent. Some misguided and evil adults got 384 former McMartin students to accuse members of the McMartin family of sexual abuse, along with accusations of a number of other bizarre crimes against the kids.

At the time (maybe it still is) it was the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American history.

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcmartin/mcmartinaccount.html

[izquierdista]

14. Under pressure from a summons, schools can be made to do almost anything

Q: Where will you never find a school district's lawyer?
A: In court.

[Initech]

10. There's a special place in hell for the inventor of zero tolerance policies.