The little girl was allegedly recorded being sexually assaulted by a boy in the classroom while a teacher was present.
Parents are demanding answers as to how a 6-year-old girl was recorded being sexually assaulted in a classroom by another student while others screamed and cheered him on.
The teacher was allegedly in the classroom but was wearing earphones and not paying attention.
The alleged incident took place at South Elementary in Plainview Independent School District late last month; however, the victim’s family was only recently informed—by the child, not the school.
The victim’s great-aunt, whose name is being withheld for privacy reasons, said the school is trying to pretend that nothing happened. When the family asked about the incident, they were told that “just an inappropriate video [was] taken.”
“They’re trying to sweep this under the rug and pretend it’s no big deal,” said the victim’s great-aunt.
The family was not alerted of the alleged incident by the school and instead came to realize something was wrong when they “noticed differences in [the girl’s] demeanor.”
“She wasn’t sleeping well, she wasn’t eating, she was peeing in the bed again, her eyes were glossed over, her stomach always hurt,” said the great-aunt.
The little girl’s great-aunt said when she noticed something was wrong, she sat her niece down and tried to talk with her. Although the great-aunt told the girl she was safe, protected, and loved—no matter what—she couldn’t look her in the eyes. The victim said she felt weird and angry.
That’s when the child told her she was recorded being bullied and hurt by students in her classroom. It was later revealed the incident was recorded on a password-protected, school-issued iPad.
The video allegedly showed the little girl being forced to perform an oral sexual act. A large group of kids was screaming and encouraging the perpetrator, a male student in the same class.
The perpetrator allegedly was recorded pulling the little girl under the table as she hit him with her poetry book, begging him to stop.
He refused.
By Soli Rice
