A 10-year-old Texas girl was charged with aggravated sexual assault after she was spotted playing “doctor” with a 4-year-old boy near her home.
“Ashley,” (which we will call the child to protect her identity), was 9-years-old at the time of the incident. She reportedly had been playing “doctor” with a bunch of children in the apartment complex where she lives, when a neighbor spotted her touching the small child in the private area.
That’s when the neighbor phoned the 4-year-old’s mother.
Two months later, Houston Police Department officers arrived at Ashley’s house and arrested her on suspicion of rape. She spent four nights in the Harris County Juvenile Detention Center.
“I was crying and they took me to the car and I didn’t want to get in and I was crying and I was moving and trying not to get in the police car and my Mom told me to calm down,” Ashley told My Fox Houston.
Quanell X, a family friend and the leader of the local New Black Panther Party chapter, says he was shocked to learn of a child this young being charged with such a serious crime over a game of doctor.
“In fact this was nothing more than inappropriate horseplay that has now lead to a child that is ten years old being charged with aggravated rape,” he said.
The 10-year-old was due to appear before a judge last week, but the hearing has been pushed back to October.
Do you think the punishment Ashley received was too harsh? Discuss…
