What daughter said happened

[hils1979]

First post, please be gentle!
My 5 yr old daughter has told me tonight that 6 boys in year 2 have twice (today and last Friday) cornered her in the playground, pulled her tights and knickers down, and looked and laughed at her girly bits.
This is the first I've heard of something like this and I'm shocked!!!
I know boys will be boys... but seriously?? Also she said she told 2 teachers and the head. But why hasn't anyone told us?
AIBU to think be the school should have contacted me and told me? Reassured me they were aware and dealing with it? Have they told the parents of the boys? Awkward as 3 are pretty good friends of mine.

As an addendum, what I attempted to put across previously (probably on rather a convoluted fashion) was that this is important to nip in the bud chiefly because the issue does not exist on a binary - there aren't two categories of "post-pubescent/adult sexually motivated actions" and "children's actions which have no relationship with human sexuality whatsoever".

To enact sexual activity as a child = abnormal. To have an instinctive sense that some gazes, touches, actions, scenarios are somehow different from others, and elicit different feelings in a way one cannot quiet yet understand (stemming from much the same place as the "unprompted" sudden desire for privacy while changing at around that age) = perfectly normal.

^ By which of course I mean non-solo sexual activity. Masturbation is also perfectly normal child behaviour in and of itself.

That's not quite what I meant by peer-reviewed research but thanks for coming back and replying.

Peer reviewed research into what though? The fact that children have some degree of sexual awareness? This has never been disputed.

Moreover I don't really see how it can be denied.

For fairly obvious reasons, peer reviewed research into the area is pretty limited.

The Wiki on the subject is fairly expansive and appears to substantiate what I have been saying. Children develop at different rates, but the formation of some degree of sexual awareness pre-puberty is normal. Journal-based data on the subject is chiefly through observation and adult recollection (again, for obvious reasons).

nctsn.org/nctsn_assets/pdfs/caring/sexualdevelopmentandbehavior.pdf

Sometimes MN is worse than being at university. "I want reputable, peer reviewed research." It's a social media forum. You show reputable, peer reviewed research if you're so sure of your point.

MouseClogs thank you for your wise comments.

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