Two 10-Year-Old Boys Charged With Sex Assault On School Bus

I am not the type to want to see “special needs” 10 year olds go to jail,however if I had kids in that age bracket I sure as hell wouldn’t want those too little perv’s around MY kids.

This is really upsetting. I would wonder where these 10 years old became so aware of sex. There is a lot of wrong going on here.

Ok Morbid, this sentence just made my head hurt:

After a lengthy investigation, an investigation the parents of all three boys were a part of, the two 10-year-olds were arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child.

Thats what I was thinking. Or since it’s both of them maybe a special needs teacher they had? I dunno.

Although it is possible, I have doubts that it was sexual in nature. “Special Needs” is an incredibly loose term, but kids who took the sped bus in my school district usually had Down’s Syndrome or something equally debilitating. Maybe they were needy enough that they had no idea what they were doing, and reenacting some porn they found in Daddy’s room or something of that nature. Also, the kids were very close in age, so I doubt it has to do with pedophilia. It’s certainly possible you’re right, but I’m hoping it’s a case of severe ignorance and that their parents left a few gaps in teaching them what’s acceptable.

Man , life is hard as it is for parents. Can’t imagine having a special needs child and then having this to deal with. Hopefully they all get the help they need, I bet that one was the leader and the other followed so maybe we won’t have 2 future Demo-nites.

Just to let you know I don’t see anything wrong with the sentence. It’s a bit awkward if you’re skimming it fast, but many people are so used to seeing things done wrong that sometimes the correct grammar looks or sounds wrong to them.

Also, isn’t it a requirement that there be an aide or helper on a bus like that? I just assumed that a bus carrying special needs children would have minimum 1 able adult to supervise and be ready in case anything happened and/or to help get the kids on and off the bus safely.

It’s whats called a run on sentence Dangerous – and Morbid – run on – like Andy needs to do.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, again scaring the bejesus out of me to send my children to school past Kindergarten.  I really do not want to home school because I am not sure how well my knowledge base will cross into the realms of grade school learning and further.  At this point my curriculum looks like it would consists of:

Life Skills — How to pour a beer with the least amount of foam – though having said that I actually knew this one by probably age eight since my Dad was too lazy to get one of his many, many daily beers and many other alcohol related topics.

Home Ec – Which button on the microwave cooks Stouffers Mac and Cheese the fastest.

Drivers Ed – How not to drive like a girl – though my sons actually can recognize this at age 4 — today my son said again – boy, she drives like a “grill”, doesn’t she Mommy.  Teaching em young.  Though we also know – he drives like an idiot – I don’t discriminate. 

Maybe I can home school…so many ideas. 

Sure, plenty of them do, but that just depends on life experience and how well their minds are developed, both of which we will never know. For all we know, they took the phrase “shove it up your ass” literally, or something equally unsexual. I completely agree that they need to investigate the hell out of it, I just think that chances are it wasn’t sexual at all. I hope.

It’s not a run-on sentence, it’s just long.

If I were to tell a story, not somewhere else but right here in this comment thread, and I took awhile to get it out because I was eating my breakfast while typing, and the story turned out to be really boring anyway, it wouldn’t necessarily make any less sense just because it was dull.

^The above is not a run-on sentence. It’s just long.

I am incensed that the principal suspended the victim for a week, dismissing the entire incident as horseplay.  Jason Spencer for the Houston school district calls this an appropriate response.  Rape is not horseplay no matter what Jerry Sandusky of Penn State scandal fame wants to call it.  When sexual molestation is uncovered and child vicims are asked why they didn’t report it, they often say, I was afraid I might get in trouble.   I thought that was a childish misunderstanding but apparently not in this school district.  What was the boy’s offense — struggling too hard to avoid being raped?  Does anyone have contact information for the Spencer.  I would like to tell him that blaming the victim is never the correct response to rape.

I wish parents were doing a better job of limiting their kids exposure to sexual situations in movies (and ya gotta hope their behavior was learned from movies and not real life). Just last month we got a call from my kids’ bus driver to inform us that she had to break up a situation where another boy was simulating oral sex on my son, thankfully with pants up; both of these kids are seven years old. WTF! I sure as hell wouldn’t have thought that a dick belongs in my mouth at age seven. So much for waiting til middle school to have the birds and bees and blowjobs discussion.

You can get contact info from your local phone companies information number – just request to be transferred To Houston,Tx. information.

HA !!!

Where I live “special needs” is very loosely defined. My school has a very large population of children who are labeled special needs, and that group covers all kinds of needs – from kids who are simply dyslexic, and need a little help in a regular classroom, all the way to children who are labeled “Pervasive Mentally Handicapped.” These little souls cannot speak, stand, or control their movements. PMH children will never mature to any ability level past that of a three month old infant.

In between those two levels there are as many different labels as there are children. Some children are severely autistic, or slightly developmentally delayed, or “Trainable Mentally Handicapped” (Most Down’s kids are this.) Then there are kids in the SED class. Severely Emotionally Disturbed. Some of these are children with normal intellect, but who have such abnormal behavioral issues that they cannot be in a regular classroom.

Lord knows the regular classrooms also have their share of “labeled” students. Most schools now have “Behavior Specialists” along with nurses and other staff – just for these special needs students.

Then throw this into the mix: If you are on government assistance, and you can get a special needs label on your child, you are automatically entitled to more financial, medical, and housing assistance.

So there is a financial incentive to have your misbehaving child labeled (Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Asperger’s Syndrome, even Specific Learning Disability – which covers a multitude of slight problems.) From what I have seen, there are a bunch of kids who ride the “short bus” mostly because it gets a bigger entitlement check in the state of Florida.

It may be that the video appeared to show consensual activity, but once CPS investigated thoroughly, they discovered that it was not. No where does it mention the younger child struggling in the video. The principal only had a little evidence to go on, and it would not have been appropriate for him to deeply investigate such a serious charge. He did the right thing by leaving that up to law enforcement.

 A “which” after the second “investigation” would have made the sentence crystal clear, but there’s nothing wrong with it as-is.

School Buses. They’re the new Elevators. Just as horrifying, but not as lethal!

Andy I did the same thing as you, I read it wrong.

I thought special needs included more then those who are metally retarded.Learning about the birds and the bees should not have resulted in this. I suspect they either learned this at home or experienced it themselves first hand. I hope cps does get to the bottom this, no pun intended.

Good, good.  Keep em coming.  I’ll have little Mensa members by age 6 who can make a mean dirty martini. 

I can give you my address!

Well, I spent about six years in special ed myself .. I had severe anxiety issues – mostly related to OCD.. no learning disabilities so I attended regular classes for the most part ..  I had difficulty with some subjects – usually math related – because I was INCREDIBLY self conscious about making mistakes..  This usually led to me not turning assignments in because I didn’t want to give anyone the impression that I was stupid (I always expected  myself to just KNOW things)..  At the best of times special ed classes were just like any other class.. at the worst of times I felt like Jane Goodall amongst the chimps..   There certainly are a mix in those classrooms – severely mentally handicapped (kids in wheelchairs, kids who had the emotional development of five year olds.. severely autistic kids), and then there were those who had behavioral issues (impulse control, anger, lack of focus, fighting.. etc) ..   I have to admit, I wouldnt have changed it for the world.. lol..  Sometimes it was irritating, but mostly it was like being in the middle of a circus, and because of special ed, I graduated from public school, and I have quite a few very entertaining stories to tell people.. lol.. 

anyway..  Yes, there were kids I attended classes with who could have been vulnerable bad influences, but mostly they knew better..  This sort of behavior has to be learned somewhere.. Kids, special needs or mainstream, don’t do these things spontaneously..   I hope this gets sorted out and they all end up getting the help they need..  

Children at that age learn about sexual force and acting out from other people. And since abusers tend to be related to the abused, I hope the investigators take long, hard looks at the families of the ten-year-olds.

That’s more efficient, but less artistic.  Morbid clearly meant to emphasize the fact that the investigation did, in fact, involve the childrens’ parents.  

Thank you, sir! You made me blush. : )

How are they facing 40 but the guy that maimed and blinded his son gets friggen 8?? Not fair, esp in special needs bus’ they are supposed to have an aide drive in back with the kids, where was this one

I like that.

And you would be wrong. It is not a run on sentence. It was simply me emphasizing a point with commas. Had I used dashes, this article would be about 15 comments less.

You know, run on and on…like Ced’s keyboard does sometimes…

I know, right? Maybe I should go back to purposely misspelling words. Because as you know, they are all done on purpose.

Oh baby, get all grammar grrrl on me. I love it!

In Detroit they cut all the aids off of the bus. So no, and all age kids ride. My young nonverbal daughter came home with a bite mark. They couldn’t tell me what happened. She never rode again.

A boy was doing that to your son   O-O

WTF is wrong with these kids ?  I would have knocked that kids teeth out if I had been your son.

Gross – how come no link ? Should have been a link to two special needs kids with their dicks bitten off – if you ask me …

Well, in my sister’s case, she was an active participant in the verbal altercation that led to the physical one, so her victimhood is arguable and the principal had every right to suspend them both.  

And, sure, I would expect the principal to exercise another option if he was dealing with a 4.0 student.  But 95% of students aren’t even close to qualifying for the type of educational institution that would discriminate against a suspension.  

I know my sons (one just turned 7) don’t have any sort of clue that people put their penises in other peoples mouth. That act would be hilarious to them if they heard that. They would honestly bust up laughing their asses off I’m sure. They would think it was weird if someone simulated that, but I’m sure they wouldn’t have a violent reaction because it would just be so absurd to them.

But do you think it’s fair to determine punishment based on the administrations perceptions of what students will go on to after high school? Should kids on track to go to college have different rules?

yes there needs where “special”

Right, the ten year olds go for 40 years and the guy who permenently disabled his son gets 8.