Schoolgirls spiked my daughter’s drink with laxatives.

[Halfordscarpark]

This is more of a WWYD I guess.

My daughter has been bullied recently at school, some physical, some verbal and this week the bullies poured laxatives into her water bottle at lunchtime and I had to leave work to collect her.

I’ve not heard anything more from the school or the parents and the children are still in school.

I’m interested to hear what you think and what you would do in this situation as this is not acceptable.

Agree. If there was ever a time to create a 'scene' this would be it.
You need to protect your child - and God forbid any others - from these bullies. Else it'll be something far worse that they'll do next time.
Don't let there be a next time - for your daughter, or anyone else.

I'd contact the police to be honest. Surely this counts as drugging?

Was just going to same the same because it is an assault and I believe going in at the very worst possible angle is the right way to approach.

FFS OP what is wrong with you? What would make you want to cause a scene?! What message is this sending to your DD about her worth?

Have you checked that the little shits haven't filmed the whole thing and put it on social media?

@Halfordscarpark nothing to do with causing a scene. You are showing your daughter what needs to be done when people break the law and cause harm. Your daughter needs to see you stand up for her and protect her.

And if you're worried about the girls that did this then maybe you're saving them from themselves. Maybe by receiving the full force of the law at this stage will prevent them for making bigger, more lethal mistakes in the future.

And you will be helping the school revisit their inadequate policies. Really, if you need to consider the school and the bullies, then you're still helping them. But your priority should be your daughter.

Please, please go the police OP. This is sickening. This is a massive safeguarding issue and I can not believe the school are failing to deal with it.

Are u insane? You should muster of all your energy and cause the biggest scene. Schools pander to loudest parents who know the system, you don’t wait, you contact the police now. Write to the governors.

If this is definately true - because it sounds fishy, but if true:

• police - actually bodily harm is a criminal offense and all involved need taking through the young offenders courts and a young offenders sentence.
• School need to look at firstly safeguarding your daughter, but probably excluding those involved to a more secure environment.
• The children's parents need investigating too because if a ten year old doesn't know that playing with medication is dangerous and isn't being prevented from having access to medication, they are at risk. Who knows next time they could try out something more dangerous or in a dangerous quantity?

You aren’t causing a scene. None of this would be happening if it wasn’t for their behaviour. It’s not your fault they did this to your daughter and they’ve left you no choice. These aren’t sweet innocent girls, it’s really fucked up.

The school are going to try play this down and hope you go away, they have had time to act and they have not.

This is not the time to be worried about making a scene, you should be raising absolute hell!!! Stick up for your daughter, fight for her! CALL THE POLICE MUM!!!

I think on occasions you do need to cause a scene and sadly this is one such occasion.

Police and also child protection at your local council

"Child protection" isn't a person or service you can just call up and complain to. It is a set of measures undertaken to protect children who are likely to suffer/already suffering significant harm due to serious abuse or neglect. Children do not become subject to Child Protection proceedings due to bullying/assaults at school. OP has every right to contact the Police but Children's Services will not be interested unless there is clear evidence that any of the children involved are not safe at home.

That may be true but with respect laxatives aren’t legally able to be sold to persons under the age of 18 so they should not be able to have access to them. I’d argue that is neglect by the parents.

Have you reported to police yet?

Schools have community officers for this very thing. Use the service.

That's assault, a criminal offence.

Please cause a MASSIVE scene. This needs to be dealt with and I’m sure this would be classed as a criminal offence so I agree with posters saying to contact the police. I’m so sorry your daughter had to go through that. I can’t believe the school hasn’t come down like a tonne of bricks on the pupils that did this - absolutely disgusting.

I’m so sorry. This is so sad.

Honestly, I would be inclined to call the police about this. It’s astonishing that the school haven’t done anything about this. It’s not a prank. It’s really fucking serious.

Reminds me of American Pie where they do this to the kid they call "Shit break"
Edit to add in RL though I hope you're taking advice of people on here

Personally I’d go to the police, what if your daughter was allergic to them?! So so dangerous. The school should have suspended them straight away at the very least. To protect your daughter please please call the police. If this was done to her outside school you wouldn’t hesitate, children seem to think rules and laws don’t apply at school.

OP the reason why the school is dragging this out is because it's not been reported to the police.

Do it, I'm pretty sure you'll get a response then.

Please ring the police.

Don't let anyone tell you its an overreaction in any way. It's not.

It's unimaginable to think how the bullies' behaviour will escalate further if they aren't stopped after this.

This is a safeguarding issue. The police do need to be informed. Your job here IS to create a scene. This needs the strongest of responses. Get your people pleasing hat off and your tiger mum hat and big girl pants on and fight your ass off to get the school to act. These girls should have been out straight away and the police involved. The school are not protecting her. You need to.

I would definitely report to police and then let the school know you did it. Revolting behaviour on the part of the kids, but also shocking on the part of the school to not do much about it.