Nov 21, 2011
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A school administrator in Florida called the sheriff after a pair of consenting 12-year-olds shared a kiss on the playground.
Lee County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to Orange River Elementary School after two female students were debating over who liked a 12-year-old boy more. At that point, one of the girls walked over and kissed the boy – leading an assistant principal to call authorities.
The administrator initially contacted the Florida Dept. of Children and Families. However, DCF told the school that they needed to call local law enforcement.
“They called us and said they caught two children kissing on the playground,” Sgt. Stephanie Eller told Fox News & Commentary. “The reality is it was probably something innocent between two kids on the playground.”
Eller said the deputies took a report and documented the incident, but determined no crime had been committed.
“If it had been a crime at all it would have been a simple battery,” Eller said. “The battery consists of the unwanted touching of one person to another.”
She said no one was arrested.
“At this point, it doesn’t look like we have anyone who was an unwilling participant in this,’ she said, referring to the playground smooch.
Eller said she suspected the school was being overly cautious.
“In the past, they would have been reluctant to say anything,” she said. “That reluctance is gone because they don’t want to be the one that didn’t say something at that point at which the behavior was starting.”
However, Joe Donzelli, a spokesman for Lee County Public Schools, said that wasn’t the case at all. The school system said there was another – more serious incident that resulted in the telephone call to police.
When there is “suspicion to the level of concern, school employees are required to call DCF,” Donzelli told the Naples News.
He said school district employees are required to call DCF if they suspect abuse.
But Eller said school administrators never conveyed anything serious to the sheriff’s department.
“That was never conveyed to our deputies,” she said.
Eller said they were only called to the school because they had a report “of two children kissing.”
Meanwhile, parents are accusing the school of overreacting.
“Whatever happened to common sense,” one parent wrote to the local newspaper.
Another parent suggested the principal needed to be fired.
“A kiss between 12-year-olds, I would say, is relatively harmless,” another wrote.
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What ever happened to common sense?
What ever happened to common sense?
Aren't schools teaching kids about putting condoms on bananas, oral & anal sex and everything else the libs can force upon children? So what's wrong with a little kiss. Not explicit enough?
If these people are "Teaching" our kids… Be afraid, be very afraid. Do school administrators/teachers need to take an aptitude test on common sense? Just as bad as the principal who banned any ball on the playground because a parent accidentally got beaned in the head with one while the kids were playing. GEESH!
For real? I kissed a boy in 1st grade and the teacher came over and told me to get back to my seat and do my work. They should be glad if all the kids are doing on the playground is a simple kiss. Schools need to concentrate on teaching, if they had a problem, they should have just pulled them aside and told them to stop doing that on school property. To call the cops is just plain wrong, waste of time and energy. This is like calling the cops because you are lost in a corn maze! Ah dah!
As long as it wasn't interracial, what's the problem? Now if they caught two BOYS kissing EACH OTHER, they would not have thought twice about it, let alone called police.
Another place where the inmates are running the asylum. These school officials who instigated this lunacy should be fired for incompetency.
Let me see! And they let these idiots teach our children?
"Eller said she suspected the school was being overly cautious." YOU THINK?
When you have Union employees there is no common sense, no thought, no probable cause or reasoning. Stupidity at it's best. I find it ironic how Public pathetic Education wants to teach children homosexuality in K-12th put are appalled by one of the most human and normal things as a KISS!
This is pretty ridiculous but anymore if someone's kid does as little as fart in class and gets a tummy ache the parents are suing school districts blind. It kind of throws a little boy who cried wolf on the real problems in schools like extreme bullying.
If a school can't handle a situation this simple, what do they do when there is a REAL crisis?
Next they will be calling DCF and the police when a child has head lice!
I am 15, and attend Everett High School. The same thing happens here all the time, all the rules in school are BS.
Hence why America is full of retards. God forbid we can let our youth watch violence on TV shows and cartoons, but share a simple puck.
this is why I encourage those who don't have kids to pull out when your having sex.
This is silly.
Ok…perhaps not the most appropriate behavior for 12 year olds on the schoolyard, and I pity the father of the girl who's already pushing the boundaries a little bit. There's only one problem…
There was no crime commited here.
I mean, did you think the cops werent going to ask?
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The schools try hard to teach ever younger kids about all forms of sexuality. Then 2 12 yr olds kiss and they are overwhelmed. God, please help us!
Well just another day and another emptied headed school official who lacked the most simple kind of common sense…nothing new there, but wait…OMG…A cop who actually has a brain and was not afraid to use it! Now there is a concept worth talking about. Quick, someone name a holiday after this great public servant! Sgt. Stephanie Eller for Attorney General…has to be better than the idiot we have!
Next they'll be labeling the boy a sex offender and sending the girl to victum of abuse counseling.
Next they'll be labeling the boy a sex offender and sending the girl to victum of abuse counseling.
I cant believe you Americans your so fukin petty , big deal so two 12 year olds were seen to be kissing so what big deal, i honestly believe your taking away childrens rights its part of growing up, im pleased I'm british.
I cant believe you Americans your so fukin petty , big deal so two 12 year olds were seen to be kissing so what big deal, i honestly believe your taking away childrens rights its part of growing up, im pleased I'm british.
you 'mercans are pathetic… this should only happen in iran!
Apparently these school administrators are retarded.
What's funny to me is, 100 or so years ago, girls 12 an13 yrs old were getting married. Now, 2 12 yr olds kiss and its a crime. Political correctness gone very very wrong.
Once we realize this country is no longer free, the better off we will all be.