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Teachers suffer sexual harassment and rape threats from pupils as
young as SIX
Daily Mail, UK: 16 August 2010
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303426/Teachers-suffering-
sexual-harassment-rape-threats-pupils-young-6.html
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Schoolchildren as young as six are subjecting teachers to a shocking
level of sexual abuse - from leering and sexual comments to groping
and threats of rape.
New figures reveal that hundreds of teachers have been touched
inappropriately or propositioned by pupils, and other reports say that
children have fondled themselves in class in a bid to embarrass or
intimidate their teacher.
It comes as police reports reveal that children - also as young as six
in some cases - are being arrested for serious crimes including
assault and battery and robbery.
The increasing incidence of children sexual harassing their teachers
has been highlighted in private logs kept by local councils, which
have been made available through the Freedom Of Information Act.
In the youngest case a six-year-old boy made sexual remarks to a
49-year-old teacher in the West Midlands, while an eight-year-old boy
licked a teacher's leg and grabbed her breast at a school in
Cambridge.
A 16-year-old boy announced to his class in Scotland that he was going
to rape his teacher, while other female teachers have complained about
being touched on the bottom or breast - with one even saying that she
was followed into the lavatory.
It is not always male pupils making sexual advances,
In one case a schoolgirl flashed her underwear at a male teacher and
then proceeded to 'massage herself in a sexual manner' in front of
him.
These incidents were only recorded in 45 of the 206 local authorities,
and education experts fear the true level of sexual harassment is much
greater.
Police have revealed that children aged ten or younger have been
arrested for crimes including arson, assault and battery - including a
six-year-old arrested for robbery.
Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act by Bedfordshire
Police show 50 arrests of children aged ten or below since 2007.
Of the total arrests, 42 of the children were aged ten including a
child arrested for arson with intent to endanger life in 2008.
Another ten-year-old was arrested for being in possession of a knife
or sharply pointed article in 2008.
So far this year two ten-year-olds have been arrested for assault
occasioning actual bodily harm, one for breach of bail conditions and
another for assault by beating or battery.
There have been a further three counts of theft charges this year
involving the arrests of two ten-year-olds and a nine-year old.
The youngest offender was a six-year-old arrested this year for
robbery. A ten-year-old was arrested in 2008 for the same offence.
The most common arrest since 2007 has been for criminal damage to
arrested.
Three nine-year-olds and two ten-year-olds were arrested for breach of
the peace in 2008 and an eight-year-old was arrested in 2007 for an
attempted theft from a shop.
The greatest number of arrests - 22 children - occurred in 2008.
The figures give no indication of the specifics of each case or how
many children were arrested. A child under the age of ten cannot be
prosecuted for a criminal offence.
A spokesman for The Children's Society, which thinks the age of
criminal responsibility is too low, said they were campaigning for a
new approach to justice for children.
He said: 'We are calling on the Government to support the Youth
Justice Board in promoting a dedicated youth justice strategy for
children and young people that takes into account their special
developmental needs and circumstances.
'We have particular concerns about cuts in local government spending
which could lead to the closure of innovative community schemes aimed
at reducing youth offending.'
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