6 Year-Old Labeled A “Sexual Harasser” - With Video
In schools across the country, kids as young as three and four are now facing charges of sexual harassment that will stay with them permanently on their school records.
These so-called “zero-tolerance” polices, designed to protect students from weapons and drugs or sexual violence, are often being taken quite literally.
Pictured: Randy Castro…pervert? At 6? Sheesh fuggedaboudit.
Watch the video below…
Randy Castro, 7, who likes recess and soccer, now has an alarming red flag in his school records. It started on the playground with a first grade classmate.
“I saw another kid like hitting her butt so I did it,” Castro said.
His Potomac View Elementary School then called the police and wrote him up as a sexual harasser. Woodbridge, Md. school officials described the incident as “Sexual Touching Against Student, Offensive,” in their report.
“When I hear ‘mommy they called police because I am a bad boy,’ that is the message that you’re giving to a 6-year-old?” said Randy’s mother, Claudia Castro.
Ted Feinberg, assistant director of the National Association of School Psychologists, was stunned by the school’s reaction and says 6-year-olds have no idea what those behaviors mean.
“I believe they do not have the capacity for awareness of sexual motivation … it seems like a gross mislabeling of the behavior and an overreaction,” said Feinberg.
The school declined ABC News’ request for an interview, but said in a statement that a “misunderstanding” led the principal to call the police, and that “the police never spoke to the child and no disciplinary action was taken by the administration.”
According to the state’s Department of Education, 166 elementary students were suspended in Maryland last year for sexual harassment, including three preschoolers, 16 kindergartners and 22 first-graders.
In Virginia, 255 elementary students were suspended for offensive sexual touching last year as well.
Two years ago in Texas, a four-year-old was punished for sexual harassment after a teacher’s aide accused the pre-schooler of pressing his face into her breasts during a hug.
While a school’s priority is to keep kids safe, critics argue the “zero-tolerance” policies can mean zero discretion.
“Overwhelming research suggests that “zero-tolerance” is not effective and often engenders more bad behavior,” said Feinberg.
Randy’s school has told ABC News that this won’t be going on his permanent record, but for Randy’s mom, his childhood innocence has been changed forever.
“They are treating him like a teenager or a grown-up … He is not. He is just a child,” said Claudia Castro.
Child sex offenders do exist. A Justice Department survey says that kids aged 7-11 were responsible for almost 4 percent of all the sexual assaults committed in the U.S. The question is whether some of the kids being slapped with these sexual harassment labels deserve them.
(ABC)
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This is fucked. Insane liberalism in its most naked form. Yeah, 4-7 year olds committing sexual offenses, haha. Maybe the police need to investigate the school administrators for sexual perversion. Seriously, the only adults who would think that a 6 year old hitting another student on the ass is in any way sexual (or harrassment) has to be a pedo/pervert themself. Or maybe the school official was angry because it was a boy touching a girl, and we all know that in the mind of the liberal asshole, boy-on-boy is much more acceptable and “normal.” Idiots.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:25 pmPerhaps Potomac View Elementary School needs to be [schooled] in what IS reality and what IS liberal fiction bullshit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSa9WgU6IM&NR=1
April 4th, 2008 at 4:30 pmduh
April 4th, 2008 at 4:32 pmThis is one of the reasons why our public schools are failing. Stupid adults.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:19 pmI really have a hard time respecting public school administrators. Just a bunch of libtard yahoos.
I need a freaking beer.
This is insane..>>! How can an adult consider that playing like normal kids do and indeed we did can be considered sexual activity? ?
The kids need counseling to see sexuality like something normal,respect others,etc . But call the police when they play???
That’s insane…sick minds
April 4th, 2008 at 5:30 pmImagine what would have happened if he had been caught playing doctor in the coat closet?
Kid would probably end up as a registered sex offender for life.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:36 pmI was caught playing doctor with a neighbor gal when I was 7, and the belt on my ass made me a little more secretive about my explorations. Just doing what came natural.
April 5th, 2008 at 7:37 amThis very thing happened to my nephew when he was eight. He was talking to a girl on the playground and said “I have a penis and you don’t.” [The girl should have replied, “Yeah, and you have a left hand, too, so you can forget about what I DO have.” But I digress.]
The public school kicked him out, not of class but school permanently! My sister then put him into a private Catholic school where he fed on a diet of soap until his mouth cleaned up.
H-O-M-E S-C-H-O-O-L Y-O-U-R K-I-D-S!
The public school system is worthless. Utterly worthless.
April 5th, 2008 at 7:47 amMore complete insanity by ignorant leftist liberal lunatics who somehow can’t remember anything about being a kid themselves.
I scan through http://zerointelligence.net/ once in awhile just to see what kind of stupidity they’re up to now.
Thankfully, one of my kids has already graduated college, and the other is a sophomore in college.
April 5th, 2008 at 3:49 pmi think that some grown ups were fucked and stayed fucked up, lets use reverse psychology - so a principle saw a kid slapping a butt of another, and considers it a sixual harrasment, then if tha principle does that to a kid (butt slapping) him/herself is engaging in a sexual harrasment…im i wrong with this, or some adults are sick fucking perverts?
April 6th, 2008 at 9:28 pm