What is going on in the world!
A fifth grader at Public School 194 in Harlem is being singled out as the ringleader in an assault against a child in the third grade.
The 8-year-old boy was dragged into the bathroom in school and forced to perform oral sex on three male classmates, including the fifth grader (who was also involved in an attack on a female student two years earlier).
The boy had just finished lunch at Public School 194 and was in a hallway waiting for class to start when a fifth-grader, the ringleader, and two third-graders pushed him screaming and pleading for help into a bathroom stall, the lawsuit says.
He said one boy held his hands behind his back during the March 2012 attack while another forced him to his knees.
The three culprits then took turns pulling their pants down and demanded that the victim perform oral sex, according to court papers.
“When I was going on line three kids drag me to the bathroom and they pull down there (sic) pants,” the lawsuit says he wrote in a statement to the school. “I told them no but they didn’t listen to me.”
When the assault was over, the boy ran to class and told his classmates and teacher what happened. The teacher immediately contacted the guidance counselor, who called the boy’s mother.
“I don’t know how to explain this to you, but your son was in the bathroom and was forced to perform oral sex on three boys,” the mother, whose name is being withheld by the News, recalled Bazan telling her when she arrived at the school.
Now, she’s filing a $6 million lawsuit against the city Education Department for what she calls “emotional and psychological anguish” and for failing to alert parents and authorities that the ringleader had a history as a “sexual deviant.”
It was revealed that that same ringleader was not punished after touching a third grade girl under her skirt while in class. The principal at the time, Charyn Koppelson, allowed him to continue attending the school as if nothing had happened.
“She said, ‘He’s just a kid,’” the girl’s mom told the News in March. “(The incidents) were never placed in the system at all.”
But this time, cops arrested the two third-graders at the school on sexual misconduct charges. The fifth-grader was arrested on the same charges later at the precinct, the lawsuit says.
And the third grader, now 9-years-old, was transferred to another school.
Read more about this bizarre case here.
SOURCE: NY Daily News
