FELONY sexual assault? GIVE ME A BREAK . .

[RachelRose]

I think we've all lost our minds. The adults have taken leave of their senses, and the inmates are running the asylum.

FELONY sexual assault? How about someone telling that boy to keep his hands to himself, and teaching the girl that if someone is touching her in a way she doesn't want in a crowded room to say something about it?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/breaking/6557280.html

[R~O~S]

oh we've lost our minds alright.

We won't let our children out of our sight for fear of boogy men waiting around every corner.

But the day care center thinks it's OK to have movie time in a dark room under blankets with unrelated babies & prepubescents, males and females all mixed together under the same blankets? Isn't that a lot like being in bed?

How about we get the day care center to grow a brain before we entrust them with our children?

[R~O~S]

When I entrust my 6 year old daughter to a day care center, I expect they're not putting her in bed with an 11 year old boy.

Movie theaters, no beds there & I'd expect someone took the 6 year old to the theater.

Kindergarten, mats for nap time, no blankets, no 11 year olds.

See the difference?

& yes, it's insane to be charging the boy with a felony, the day care center should be facing charges.

counseling for the 11 year old, he is certainly old enough to know what he was doing was wrong.

You have no idea what he said to the little girl at the time, or previously to keep her from screaming out. Nor do you know she isn't a victim of such abuse elsewhere and therefore didn't know she had a choice.

[cantstandnuts]

So, if convicted, the 11 year old will be a registered sex offender. Goodbye to any chance he's going to succeed in life.

I blame the daycare for putting these children in such a situation where something like this was just begging to happen. Why aren't they finger painting or something?

This is a shame.

[museumgirl]

My day care didn't have beds; the kids slept in their own sleeping bags.... if I went to look at a place and saw this... there is NO way they'd get my kids!

[cattywampus]

Well, the big elephant in this room is:

What if she likes it? What if she's comfortable with it?

My mother told me countless times while I was growing up what boys would do and say to get what they wanted, but she never said a word about my own desires or what to do once I started getting them. I don't think she believed it was possible for women to want, or enjoy sex.

I know two children (8 and 6) who are "Playing doctor" all the time, and nothing is being done about it. The little boy says he does it because it makes his hands feel good. I've no idea if the little girl enjoys or is comfortable with it, at her present age, but what if it goes on until she's ten or twelve, or thirteen or fourteen? A lot of things are as "natural" as playing doctor, but we still don't allow kids to do them. Children need to be taught that whether or not they are comfortable with it, it is wrong, and dangerous, and they need to object strenuously if it happens to them. Will this help? Maybe.