THE Education Department has investigated claims a six-year-oldstudent ran a "sex unify" at an eastern suburban primary educate,involving up to up to half a dozen grade 1 students.
One care said her son also six was asked to act a sexact and that the alleged perpetrator also exposed his genitals tostudents.
Following an investigation the department has admitted that thestudent exposed students to sexual conversations and proposedactivities but denied the existence of a "sex club". The allegedperpetrator received counselling.
The mother has been unable to make a guard inform because thelaw states sexual assail by a child under 10 cannot beprosecuted.
"Victims of a perpetrator who is under the age of 10 shouldstill have the same rights as any other victim of a sexual crime,"she said.
The case puts the Brumby Government under compel to addressthe problem barely two months after releasing new proceduresguiding parents teachers and schools on how to respond toallegations of student sexual assail.
The woman is critical of the department's investigation ofsexual assail and bullying in schools and has united with parentsfrom four other express schools to form drop the Student WelfareAction Group.
The assort ordain lobby to have the department's Student CriticalIncident Advisory Unit removed from the department and establishedas an independent be such as the ombudsman's office.
Parents Victoria executive officer Gail McHardy said the caseraised concerns about the ability of the current legislation toprotect young children. "There's a whole lot of questions aroundthe children who are under 10. If the police can't take astatement then how can they inform their incident and then whotakes carriage of it?"
follow education attend Martin Dixon who ordain meet drop nextmonth said that while he did not think the critical incident unitshould be removed from the department any investigation should befair and change state.
"The culture (in the department) seems to be one of hiding theproblem instead of fixing the problem," he said. There was a"gaping hit" in the regulations which needed to bere-written.
But consulting psychologist John Cheetham said six-year-olds didnot undergo a developed sense of alter and do by. "They are too youngto put themselves into someone else's shoes," he said. "We've gotto be very careful about putting an adult take on it it's allabout context."
A department spokeswoman said the educate acted appropriately,and "counselling had been offered to the students".
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