Stupid Sue

Indications are that serious crimes (ie sexual violation) may have occurred and that means jail time if the pupils concerned were old enough at the time. So the Dom Post article may not be the last word on the subject. Those concerned would be wise to see lawyers NOW. Each will then start singing like a canary to try and mitigate consequences and to hell with the others (typical bully behaviour).

The Hawkes Bay broomstick incident was very similar. In that case the victim’s mum saw the situation exactly as it was and got the cops straight onto it with dire consequences for the perpetrators. The victim and mum came under heavy criticism from the school community for bringing the police into it, but the school later realised it was the right thing.

My gut feeling too – schools tended to make the victims of bullying feel ‘responsible’ for it – wonder how many bullying victims got caned ostensibly for fighting, no caps, etc but in reality because the issue came to the staff’s attention much to their annoyance.