Sex in school. And we're not talking about a high school or even middle school. We're talking about an incident that allegedly happened at an elementary school.
The mother of an 8-year-old boy says one of the girls in his third grade class performed a sex act on him in the school library, during school hours.
"It was shocking. I was flabbergasted," said mom Lashonna Lee.
She never expected to have "the talk" with her 3rd grade son this week. But after a 9-year-old female classmate allegedly performed a sex act on him in the school library, she says she had no choice.
She says her son tried to stop it from happening, by raising his hand to get the librarian's attention.
"The teacher told him if he's not telling on himself, don't tell on anyone else," said Lee. "And that's when he put his hand down, and the little girl proceeded to take his private out and proceeded to do what she did."
Lee says the assistant principal called her Wednesday.
"It happened Monday," she said. "I didn't find out until Wednesday so I don't know how he was feeling those two days."
WREG contacted MCS to ask how might something like this have happened in a school library? Between 3rd graders? Under adult supervision?
But all we received was a one-sentence e-mail stating: "We cannot comment specifically on this case due to the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act."
"He was sexually molested at school, forced to have something done to him that he didn't want done," said Lee.
She says the the assistant principal told her the librarian was reprimanded and the girl in question was suspended but she doesn't know for how long. She also says the school refuses to remove her from her son's class.
"I don't know how it's affected him, but I know he's not comfortable in the classroom with her at all," said Lee.
"This has opened my eyes," she added. "These kids are very advanced for some reason, they know about things they shouldn't know about at that age."
Memphis Police say they were called to the school Wednesday but Lee says the District Attorney's Office told her this isn't a criminal matter.
Meanwhile, she'll go to the school board next week asking her son be transferred to a different school. She has an attorney, and says a civil lawsuit could be in the works.
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