In article <4c69a983$0$547$bb4e3ad8@newscene.com>, Group_Troll
<GroupTroll@Pissed.Off.nl> wrote:
> it matters knot whence i got this frum:
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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
> [ http://tinyurl.com/33xzw4u ]
>
> 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.'
>
>
Thank you for your post. Sad, but informative.
Mover, moved to wonder
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