Suspended for Sexual Assault

[Maria]

12 Boys Accused In Sexual Assault Of Girl, 8
Students Suspended For Rest Of School Year

POSTED: 4:39 pm CDT May 9, 2006
UPDATED: 4:48 pm CDT May 9, 2006

ST. LOUIS -- Twelve boys in the first and second grade at a St. Louis elementary school are accused of sexually assaulting a second-grade girl during recess, authorities said Tuesday.


One teacher who was supposed to be supervising the recess has been fired, and another suspended with pay, St. Louis schools superintendent Creg Williams said. The boys, ages 6 to 8, have been suspended for the rest of the school year. Names of the teachers and students were not released.
The girl, who is 8, is physically OK but will not return to school for the rest of the school year. "We don't know what type of emotional scars it will have on the young lady," Williams said.


"In my mind it's unconscionable that it happened and in my mind people have to be held accountable," Williams said. "How is it this kind of thing is even in the minds of young men?"


The incident happened Friday at Columbia Accelerated Community Educational Center, a school with 400 students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade on the city's north side.


Shortly after lunch, three classes of first- and second-graders were outside for recess. A student saw several boys huddled around the girl who was on the ground, and alerted a teacher.


School district spokesman Tony Sanders said details of the assault are not yet clear. Police were initially called and turned the investigation over to juvenile authorities.


The boys could face misdemeanor charges of first-degree sexual misconduct and third-degree assault, said Kathryn Herman, administrator of the city's Juvenile Court. She said one of the boys is age 6, seven are age 7, and four are age 8.


"These are really young kids," Herman said. "I can't think of many other cases at this age with this type of incident."


Williams said his office received "sketchy" information about the incident Friday, but he wasn't alerted to the seriousness of it until Monday. He immediately went to the school, then contacted the girl's mother.


The district's crisis team is trying to determine if any other girls were also assaulted, Williams said. A letter was going out to district parents on Tuesday, alerting them to the incident. Counselors were also available to students at the school.


Williams said the district will also consider counseling or other efforts for the boys accused of the crime. They will not return to Columbia but will likely be sent to different schools next school year, he said. The girl may also be transferred to a different school.


"We'll get help for the boys, too, then decide what to do with them," Williams said.


Williams said other adults at the school could also be reprimanded if an internal investigation determines they failed to supervise the recess or swiftly address the incident once it came to light.


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What's your opinion/point of view on this " sexual assault " issue since they are just only 6-8 years old kids ? Do you think it's proper way to suspended the boys for sexual assaultin' on an 8 years old girl ? Wonder how their parents feel about all this ?

Question : What grade do they have for " sex " education class ? I thought it only started in Junior High - High School. My old days started in High School where I learned about sex and health.

 

[Liebling:-)))]

Most of children are receive sex education before they hit puberty is understandable but 1st and 2nd Graders? Why label them as sex offender when they didn't being teach anything about sex issues?

*speechless* I can't say anything further...

 

[Heath]

In my time , we did not know about sex until about the 11th or the 12th grade and kids that small should not be taught about sex because if nobody taught them about sex then this would never have happened then the kids would have gone right on playing like the innocent care-free kids God intended them to be.

There is a very good reason why you do not teach kids about sex beyond the kids seeing the robin lay eggs and then see baby robins hatch and watch the mother robin bring worms to hungry baby robins. That is it.

 

[Heath]

and to add to Liebling's post, in my time when my classmates and I hit puberty when we were kids. We were not taught about sex at all. We were taught about the changes taking place in our bodies, guys grow mustanches and girls start to grow hair on their legs, different things taking place and at no time were we ever taught about sexual intercourse or any of the adult stuff. We just focused on human growth in our teenage years and we did not really know about sex that much and look at today our streets are filled with young teenage girls with baby strollers and teenage guys not in school but they are working then they hang out all night until 3 a.m. and are very angry young men with no real future prospects because they have a young girl and a baby to take care of. Remember that in my time our streets were filled with happy teenagers and children .... no baby strollers and angry young teenage boys commiting crimes after work or they just have no job and commit crimes as a full time job.

 

[Liebling:-)))]

I disagaree with you, Health.

My children know about sex issues, it doesn't mean that they are sex offenders.


See what CR's thread... 1st and 2nd Graders didn't know anything about sex education... why label them as sex offenders when they didn't know anything or don't even receive sex education yet...

 

[Heath]

I disagaree with you, Health.

My children know about sex issues, it doesn't mean that they are sex offenders.


See what CR's thread... 1st and 2nd Graders didn't know anything about sex education... why label them as sex offenders when they didn't know anything or don't even receive sex education yet...

I think it is from the carry over from elementary sex education today. I know these days that the 5th and 6th grade kids are being taught about sex and they have not even hit high school yet. When I was a kid in elementary school. There was no sex education at all. We were happy, innocent and care-free kids. I learned about body changes taking place in the puberty stages when I was in the 7th or 8th grade but we did not get any sex education until about the 11th or 12th grade which made sense because we were about to graduate from high school and some of us would go to college and some of us would marry our high school sweethearts but those kids should not be called sex offenders. The problem lays with the teachers teaching sex education to kids that so young they have no business learning about sex, they should be out playing in the schoolyard with no knowledge or any real awareness of sex education at all beyond the occasional schoolyard fights where a bully gets his nose broken, a black and blue eye when one of the kids have had enough from that 3rd grade bully but for sure sex has no place in elementary school at all. The teachers are at fault for this happening , not those kids not at that age.

 

[Heath]

Liebling, let me see if I can find you a school text book from my time about sex education and then show you the today's school text book about sex education online if I can find one somewhere on the internet so you will have a better idea of what American youth today are being taught than what was taught in my time.

 

[Heath]

Hi Liebling, Here is a very Christian and Biblically based article outlining what happened to America's sex education ..... I am still working on finding a school text book online from the past and the present.

Sex education and the destruction of American morality

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com


Ideas have consequences, and bad ideas have bad consequences. The ideas behind sex education have done more to destroy biblically based moral values than any other secular force in America.

The first idea to become a battering ram against traditional sexual morality was Sigmund Freud's dictum that sexual repression causes neurosis. If sexual repression creates dysfunction, then the remedy, of course, is free sexual expression. That was not the cure Freud recommended, but Freud's ideas so strongly influenced American culture that clothes for women went from the fashions of 1900 to the loose liberating flapper skirts of the roaring twenties – in only 20 years!

Greenwich Village bohemians and intellectuals took to Freud like ducks to water. It provided a scientific justification for their free-love promiscuity and disregard of bourgeois morals.

The second major idea came from socialist Margaret Sanger, free-love advocate, who launched a campaign in 1916 to promote contraception and abortion in order to free women from the burdens of unwanted pregnancy.

Sanger later adopted the views of the eugenicists who promoted the idea that only "the fit" should be encouraged to have children and "the unfit" discouraged from doing so. Sex education became an indispensable part of Sanger's birth-control movement. As a result, Planned Parenthood, which she founded, became the pioneer advocate of comprehensive sex education in the schools.

In 1953, Planned Parenthood staffer Lena Levine wrote, "[Our goal] is to be ready as educators and parents to help young people obtain sex satisfaction before marriage. By sanctioning sex before marriage, we will prevent fear and guilt … we must be ready to provide young boys and girls with the best contraception measures available so they will have the necessary means to achieve sexual satisfaction without having to risk possible pregnancy."

The third evil idea came from sexologist Alfred C. Kinsey, head of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Kinsey's famous report, "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male," published in 1958, preached the idea that human beings are sexual from birth. The data on 317 infants and young boys supposedly provided the scientific source of that idea. This data was obtained from a pedophile who had actually masturbated infants and boys and kept records of his criminal experiments. All of this was exposed years later by Dr. Judith Reisman, who accused Kinsey of complicity in the sexual abuse of young children.

The fourth idea came from Dr. Mary Calderone, past Medical Director of Planned Parenthood. She and her humanist colleagues launched SIECUS, the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States, at the Kinsey Institute, specifically to teach Kinseyan sexual ideology as sex education. Dr. Calderone transformed sex education into the sexuality education presently taught in American schools. SIECUS provides most of the teaching materials now used in the public schools.

The fifth revolutionary idea came from the "Humanist Manifesto II" (1973) which challenged the views of traditional religion regarding sexual behavior and proclaimed total sexual freedom among consenting adults as the new moral standard for sexual behavior. The manifesto was signed by many academicians, including sexologist Dr. Lester A. Kirkendall, a director of SIECUS, and Dr. Alan C. Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood.

In 1976, Dr. Kirkendall published "A New Bill of Sexual Rights and Responsibilities," signed by 37 leading sexologists and authors. The book states: "Humanists have had an important role in the sexual revolution. Although 'Humanist Manifesto II' contains a brief section on sexuality, we thought a more detailed statement would be useful."

Out of this interlocking directorate of humanist sex education organizations came the curriculum of sex education for American schools. And the result has been rampant premarital sex among students leading to unwanted pregnancy, abortion, single parenthood, sexually transmitted diseases, physical abuse and even murder of sexual partners, increased sexual perversion, children living in poverty without fathers, emotional turmoil, drug addiction, depression, the proliferation of pornography. In other words, premarital sex has created more social problems and pathology in America than any other activity, and it can virtually all be blamed on sex ed.

What's the solution? According to the sexologists, we need more sex ed, not less. And so politicians have decided to help by injecting federal funds into sexuality programs for schools. The result is that sex ed has become raunchier, more disgusting, and more blasphemous of traditional values.

The only solution for parents is homeschooling or private schools. That's the only way they can protect the innocence of their children.

In 1999, SIECUS asked readers to name those people who have done the most to affirm sexuality. The top 10, chosen out of 100, were: Judy Blume, Mary Calderone, Ellen DeGeneres, Jocelyn Elders, Hugh Hefner, Anita Hill, Magic Johnson, Madonna, Gloria Steinem and Ruth Westheimer.

 

[Liebling:-)))]

Liebling, let me see if I can find you a school text book from my time about sex education and then show you the today's school text book about sex education online if I can find one somewhere on the internet so you will have a better idea of what American youth today are being taught than what was taught in my time.

Yes I would love to see this link, you will provide here.

I have few links, I create threads... I hope this links will help you to understand.

http://www.alldeaf.com/showthread.php?t=21691

http://www.alldeaf.com/showthread.php?t=25686

http://www.alldeaf.com/showthread.php?t=25565

http://www.alldeaf.com/showthread.php?t=17112

http://www.alldeaf.com/showthread.php?t=17111

 

[Bowak]

dam, Just the other day i saw on news that a 13 and 14 yr old boys robbing a bank!! I think it has to do with alot of bad exposure that they have gotten from the older people and maybe on tv as well. next thing they would charge a pre school kid for doing something wrong. *sighs*

 

[Maria]

dam, Just the other day i saw on news that a 13 and 14 yr old boys robbing a bank!! I think it has to do with alot of bad exposure that they have gotten from the older people and maybe on tv as well. next thing they would charge a pre school kid for doing something wrong. *sighs*

Yeah, it's sad to see all this world changed -- much worse than our old days eh ?

Be sure to protect your babies when you are ready to become a father. Be sure to keep an eye on your babies that they don't give the wrong signals, because of the policies at schools are now becomin' weird nowdays. Their policies are surely confused pre-school kids/children to destroy their innocence/confidence/care-free minds.

 

[Bowak]

Yeah, it's sad to see all this world changed -- much worse than our old days eh ?

Be sure to protect your babies when you are ready to become a father. Be sure to keep an eye on your babies that they don't give the wrong signals, because of the policies at schools are now becomin' weird nowdays. Their policies are surely confused pre-school kids/children to destroy their innocence/confidence/care-free minds.

If i ever have a kid, i intend to be a good role model to my son/daughter and can only hope that i raise them well and they would make out just fine. Most of the parent tries their hardest to do what they can to raise the children. Sometimes when they think they do well in raising the children and they would go do something the parents never thought they would do.

I gotta hand it to the parents..most of them do a very good job with their child.

 

[Maria]

If i ever have a kid, i intend to be a good role model to my son/daughter and can only hope that i raise them well and they would make out just fine. Most of the parent tries their hardest to do what they can to raise the children. Sometimes when they think they do well in raising the children and they would go do something the parents never thought they would do.

I gotta hand it to the parents..most of them do a very good job with their child.

I am sure you are goin' to be a great father if, you ever have a kid.

Curious to ask : How come you prefer to hand it to the parents ? You are the parent of your child, if you have a child of your own. Are you afraid of makin' mistakes in upbringin' your child, knowin' this world is not in the best world to educate .... like what the policies did to pre-school kids in that article ?

I am glad that I am all done raisin' all my 4 children in a long time ago. I am retired from havin' anymore children. Now, I am keepin' an eye on my 3 grandsons. There will be another new addition - a new baby boy is on the way soon.

 

[Liebling:-)))]

If i ever have a kid, i intend to be a good role model to my son/daughter and can only hope that i raise them well and they would make out just fine. Most of the parent tries their hardest to do what they can to raise the children. Sometimes when they think they do well in raising the children and they would go do something the parents never thought they would do.

I gotta hand it to the parents..most of them do a very good job with their child.

True! It's parents's job to protect and teach children into good path. Make sure which that right place with good environment where the children should expose to.

 

[Bowak]

I am sure you are goin' to be a great father if, you ever have a kid.

Curious to ask : How come you prefer to hand it to the parents ? You are the parent of your child, if you have a child of your own. Are you afraid of makin' mistakes in upbringin' your child, knowin' this world is not in the best world to educate .... like what the policies did to pre-school kids in that article ?

I am glad that I am all done raisin' all my 4 children in a long time ago. I am retired from havin' anymore children. Now, I am keepin' an eye on my 3 grandsons. There will be another new addition - a new baby boy is on the way soon.

Ahh no I'm not afrid of bringing a child to the big bad world. and when i say i gotta hand it to the parent...they do a great job

 

[Heath]

I was trying to find an online sex educational manual from the past to the present but I could not find any from the past and it seems the liberal establishment does not want people to compare the sex educational manuals from the past which were biblically good and instilled moral values.

I came across a very shocking liberal based article from Wilkipedia and they would have done a better job to present it in a responsible, appropriate and a very biblically based manner and one that is confined to the married bedroom.

Take a look at what Wilkipedia had to say ..... Is this what you want your school age kids to be learning ? or should they stick with solid education like math , science , reading and writing etc.

Scroll all the way to the bottom of the article to be sure you do not miss anything.

Wilkipedia article:

http://afterdark.wannawiki.com/index.php/WikiAfterDark

 

[Eve]

I really don't care how you look at it, these little boys are still preditors who must be isolated in order to prevent them from subjecting another child to their heinous behavior!
Yes, I believe these boys need help, but I certainly wouldnt want my daughters exposed to them. Of course, this is also why my girls take karate and their first lesson is where to kick a boy, but ONLY if he is being sexually agressive, never just to be cruel.

 

[Reba]

The news story doesn't say whether or not any of the children had any previous "sex education", or "good touch, bad touch" training, so we really don't know about that.

IMO, in general, young children are exposed to too much sexually oriented information on a daily basis. TV programs, video games, movies, music, advertising, conversation, clothing, etc., all have sexual undertones (or even overtones). Even cartoons are filled with sexual inuendo. The poor kids probably think that if sex is so important in every phase of life, that they better not miss out on any of the action.

That's no excuse for boys attacking girls but I wouldn't be surprised if they got their "inspiration" from their societal environment. Of course, parents are responsible for training their children properly but these days it is more of a struggle because so much more in the child's world is contrary to the parents' lessons.

Sometimes the parents themselves send mixed signals. They can say, "girls shouldn't let the boys see or touch their private areas." But then the parents buy "sexy" clothing for little girls and say, "oh, you look soooo cute!" Huh?

 

[Mookie]

Educators see assault on girl as piece of larger problem

By Steve Giegerich
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Thursday, May. 11 2006

The news that a dozen first- and second-grade boys were accused of sexually
assaulting an 8-year-old classmate during recess on a St. Louis elementary
school playground left Scott Taylor unsettled, both as a father and grandfather.

As a grade-school administrator, however, Taylor was hardly surprised.

After the attack Friday that resulted in suspensions for the 12 boys,
counseling for the victim, the dismissal of one teacher and the suspension of
another, district officials and juvenile authorities are trying to piece
together what happened at Columbia Elementary School.

Superintendent Creg Williams would only say Tuesday that the boys surrounded
the girl, pinning her to the ground during the afternoon recess at Columbia,
3120 St. Louis Avenue.

Williams said the girl was traumatized emotionally but uninjured physically.
Authorities are investigating whether sexual contact occurred.

Even without the details, Taylor and other educators are able to provide at
least a partial answer as to why the elementary school was upended by an
incident that drew national headlines.

"It's not surprising," said Taylor, the principal of Crestwood Elementary
School in Lindbergh. "In my nine years as an administrator, I've experienced
kindergartners, first- and second-graders who have shown a great awareness of
sexual activity."

At first blush, the source of that familiarity is blatantly obvious. Decades
removed from the era when kids switched on the "Mickey Mouse Club" upon
arriving home from school, today's afternoon and evening television fare might
well be "Sex and the City," or even saucier material, if a child has access to
unrestricted Internet content.

Although the suspended and fired teachers have shouldered the brunt of the
blame for what occurred on the playground, parent Lori Baker said the
investigation should extend beyond what happened at the school.

The circumstances "are the biggest red flag you can have," said Baker,
president of the Wilkinson Elementary School PTO and a social worker. "It shows
that something very inappropriate is going on in their lives."

Jerry Dunn, the executive director of the Children's Advocacy Services of St.
Louis - a counseling service for underage victims of sexual abuse - cautioned
that could include factors far more complex than unsupervised television and
computer use.

Along with watching inappropriate shows and movies, Dunn said children who see
domestic violence in the home or suffer sexual trauma themselves can act out
sexually at a young age.

Taylor said single parents with one or more sexual partners might also
adversely influence sexual knowledge and behavior in their children.

Erma Nevels taught in the St. Louis Public Schools for 33 years, the last 10 at
the elementary level. She says television is not solely to blame for exposing
students to sexuality at inappropriate ages.

"I honestly believe it is the television and the songs," said Nevels, who
retired last year. "Those songs are talking about how to have sex. And the
children are repeating and singing the songs, and they think it's nothing
wrong."

Dunn suggested that the Columbia episode might be viewed more in the context of
aggression than as a sexual attack.

"I wonder if the boys involved genuinely understand what happened, or if this
was something that started and then got out of hand before they recognized it,"
Dunn said.

Teaching children to remove themselves from potential trouble is part of a
Columbia (Mo.) School District program that educates children in kindergarten
through fifth grade about proper and improper touching from adults as well as
classmates.

"Our counselors and teachers talk to the kids about good decision-making and
problem solving," said Anne Cook, a counselor at Derby Ridge Elementary School
in Columbia and the president of the Missouri School Counselor Association.

"We tell them that is your responsibility to get out a situation and get some
help. If one of the children in (the St. Louis) situation had done that, it
would have made a difference."

Dunn said the goal now should be to minimize the long- and short-term impact
for victim and accused alike.

"We shouldn't necessarily vilify these children," she said. "Just as we want to
help the little girl, we want to help these boys with their sexual behavior
problems."

She has an ally in Williams, the superintendent, who called the playground
attack a "societal issue."

"For these young men to take advantage of someone like that leads us to the
knowledge that we have greater problems than we can deal with at any of our
schools," Williams said. "It's not acceptable for them for them to even talk
about things like this at their age."

sgiegerich@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8172

 

[Heath]

Exactly what I was trying to say in my time it was Mickey Mouse and I had absoutely no knowledge of sex or anything like that and what is a 1st or a 2nd grade kid doing learning about sex? In my time there was not too much sex on tv music and film until about the late 1980's then it started to get really weird. Now we have kids who are sexually active as far as the 1st grade which is a step off the ladder of the kindergarten or pre-school class !!!!

How digusting is that ? Then I started to notice homosexuals and boys who dress up like girls, they are called shemales in my 11th and 12th grade school at mainstream programs and mostly homosexuals at Deaf schools, All a product of the brainwashing generation of the so called sexual revoultion that still is going on and damaging American kids all the way from K-12 well into adulthood which is really sad.

The media and different organizations are really at fault and not the parents. They try to tell the parents you teach the kids not to do that then at the same time they try to make money off sexuality when they should put our American youth and good moral values first and they can't use the old standby excuse anymore. " How can we make money after all we are a business. "

They sold out their souls for money and trick millions in the process into unwanted pregnancy, homosexuality STD and AIDS and now we are reading and hearing about 1st and 2nd graders raping in the schoolyard which is just wrong on many levels.

What more does the liberal establishment want ? Will they not be happy until they see pre-schoolers raping each other ? There has to be some way to stop it both on the national and local level and bring back the American and Biblical good moral values that was once commonplace in American life as well as around the world.

There is a saying that goes like this .....

" Money can buy almost everything but money can not buy very good moral values or very good manners. "