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This Wednesday, November 6, was the National Day Against School Bullying, a phenomenon that concerns high school students as much as kindergarten students. Illustration in a school in Gironde, where a 4-year-old child suffered hell.
At the start of the year, Gabriel (whose first name has been changed) is in middle school in nursery school in Bruges, near Bordeaux (Gironde). He then confided to his mother that he was the victim of harassment from older children, a year older than them. “He explains to me that two of them hold his jaw open while the third puts a stone in his mouth and they hit him regularly,” tells his mother, Audrey, to our colleagues from France Bleu.
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A few days later, she understood that her son had also been sexually assaulted. “He told me: in the toilets, there is a certain student who tells me – I am the boss, you have to put my cock in your mouth and vice versa. These three harassers told him – we are friends, you don’t Don’t tell the adults.”
“He peed on himself every day at school”
The inspector, the town hall, the school psychologist and the director of the establishment are then informed and the anti-harassment protocol is triggered: the harassers no longer have the right to come into contact with their victim. , and “the teacher welcomes Gabriel every morning in front of the school.” However, the child is traumatized. “He would pee on himself at night and every day at school. He would bite his hand because he could no longer stand being in the playground with the children in question,” recalls Audrey.
However, the latter is refused the possibility of changing Gabriel's class or school. It was thanks to the intervention of the Association for the Fight against Harassment and Mistreatment (ALCHM) that the situation was resolved and the young boy returned to a new establishment last September. “Gabriel has found a smile again and no longer wets the bed,” rejoices Audrey. The parents do not currently plan to file a complaint. They say they are “discouraged” by the steps and the numerous letters they have already sent.
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