AIBU: Teenage friend put on the sex offenders list for 'pantsing' someone at school

[Neonata]

Last week one of my 15YO DS's closest friends pulled a classmate's gym shorts down in the changing rooms as a prank and unfortunately his pants also came down and he was momentarily exposed. The boy then escalated this and the friend has now been isolated for a day, then excluded for a day and also put on the sex offenders list!!

AIBU to think this is a massive over reaction by the school?? He is a lovely boy who is usually really well behaved and generally high achieving academically.

I'm wondering that this will demonise him so much that he will start thinking he is actually a bad person and it will be enough to send him down the wrong path.

Give over

Cool story bro....

Sounds like its been hugely exagerated. Even if the Police were involved he wouldnt be on the sex offenders register this quickly.

Id take what you've been told with a huge pinch of salt

Didn't happen

I've heard all of this from my DS as he was there when it happened. It was to a boy they are quite friendly with at school but don't hang around with outside of school.

My DS's friend told him of all the consequences in a phone call over the weekend.

Mmmmhmmm

Well you missed out a whole section about his arrest and court attendance.

Sounds like bollocks to me. No pun intended.

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Never heard of rumours and gossip? Or just excited by the scenario?

That's not how the SOR works. HTH.

Well I dare say the ‘prank’ has been under-reported and / or the consequences exaggerated.

Pulling down someone’s shorts and pants: prank or bullying? What happened then I wonder, to the lad stood in a boys changing room in front of everyone else? Perhaps none of them laughed.... and I wonder why he ‘escakated It’?

My DS's friend told him of all the consequences in a phone call over the weekend

Still doesnt make it true. Its totally impossible for him to be on the SOR in the space of a week.

Quint that is a very kind offer. I DID know but have forgotten .

Nope.

Nah.

Prank - or how to humiliate someone.

I think either your DS is fibbing to you, or his friend is fibbing to him. Teenage boys make up all sorts of crap. Spreading rumours that someone is on the SOR is a malicious thing to do though... i would tell your DS to shut up about that one.

On the merest off chance that some if this contains a grain of truth.... you may be horrified to know that there are many charming, intelligent, nice-looking and quite VILE sex offenders out there. Should we let the well-educated, good-looking ones off?

Arrested, charged, and in court all within the space of a week? Wow.

if anything the school might have told him behaviour like that could lead to being on the SOR, to give him something to think about

Sex offenders register my arse. Pun very much intended.