Post 1746069 - Re: Bully, 12, investigated for rape (Bully, 12, investigated for rape)

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[quote="Sora"]The officials did a horrible job to handle this in my opinion. I don't think I can add anything to what was said about them already.

Something else;

[quote="matsuiny2004"]I really think the child should at least get some help. He is 12 and seems to have problems. I am not saying what he did is ok or not, but he does need help.[/quote]

Yes.

When a child is hurting other children in extremes sexual implications or hitting, kicking, punching etc. it's often a complicated situation for all participants.

We have a younger kid who's provocation others, violent and bullying in class and it's a balance between the others children from further harm and ensuring this child is, mentally, also not further hurt and damaged. Hardly possible.

It's one thing to read about a case like this or see a kid acting violently, but it's another to see and experience the child in question as a full person.

In my own case at school, I consider this: 
Destroy 1 kid's future to save 30 others or take collateral damage of 30 into account to ensure the 1 kid has a chance at life, when you know all participants well and all show just how human and fragile they are.

I imagine similar reasoning (if there are any serious and fair professionals) about the boy in the article and any other child that is violent in any physical or psychological form.

Can't say I'd like to make that decision, glad I don't have to make it, because I don't feel sympathy. It would be so much easier to handle the situations daily if I just felt sympathy, had a 'favourite kid' and would side with it.

[quote="Rebecca_L"]Apparently he also took Ritalin and hadn't had any for a while. (Mom was in the hospital or something.) I sent a note to my son's teacher that stated quite clearly that I had told my son to retaliate if this child struck him again and that my son would NOT be given detention or any other punative response. I pointed out that I didn't send my son to school to be hit and if the school couldn't protect him that he had my permission to protect himself. I encouraged the teacher to share my note with the principal if she felt it necessary. The other child was suspended from school until it could be determined that he was once again getting his Ritalin. [/quote]

That sounds as if it was handled well.

If the child actually was on Ritalin, but accidentally was not/someone unprofessional might have decided it wasn't necessary, it was only correct to ensure he would be on meds/get the correct treatment for both the others' safely and the kid's social and academic perspective.[/quote]

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