Schoolgirls spiked my daughter’s drink with laxatives.

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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.

Well when I'm in my evil mode I'd suggest that the girls responsible and their parents all be given strong doses of the laxatives and left tied to chairs in a public place for a few hours. Preferably while they are all wearing white.

But that would not be nice.

its not clear if OP dd drank any or not? That’s why I was mentioning about the taste as it’s horrible. Yes I agree either way whether it was consumed or not it’s terrible but hopefully the bottle was kept and can be tested

I would probably contact the school first, tell them I'm filing a police report and then file it. I'd also ask my child if they wanted to move schools. I used to think kids just have to put up with bullying at school as it happens at all schools, including to me when i was at school, but my view changed when I read a post on here. It pointed out we wouldn't expect anyone to put up with this in the workplace. We'd encourage any friend or partner to resign and get a new job if HR couldn't deal with their workplace bullies effectively. The same should apply to school.

The police have a habit of saying “not our problem, deal with it through the school” though!

And the school should have a written bullying procedure.

The OP has not given the kids age - either their DD or the other children involved. The response should be age appropriate although my first place to start would be the school as it happened at lunchtime.

I agree with some of the others that you are in a much stronger position if you can provide evidence.

The bottle and liquid.
Urine and Stool Sample.
Attend Urgent Care/Walk In to get a log as Barry suggests.

Call 101 explain what happened.

Write it all down, tell school you want a response of how this will be dealt with and to speak to the DSL and inform them police are now involved. Personally I wouldn't send DD into school until they can tell you how she will be safeguarded as she was drugged/poisoned on school premises with an unidentified substance and (presumably) bodily harm was done.

Pardon the pun but make the school shit themselves into taking this seriously.

Also I would say that even if they didn’t actually put laxative in the drink - if they’ve said they did then that is just as bad as they’ve made someone think their drink was spiked ? Surely also some kind of assault by deception ?

I'd report to the police yourselves, I'd be expecting the school to expel them for this without question.

I would 100% go to police if this was my child and school was not taking this very seriously. Do you still have the water bottle for evidence?

I am surprised (and disappointed) that school don’t appear to have followed up with OP and her DD what happened.

If a school is investigating what happened they can’t exclude a child until they have done their investigation. So if they were collecting witness statements etc, students would have to be in school (but usually in isolation or similar). Can’t immediately suspend them and turn it in to permanent exclusion once investigation completed.

Even if they were 6 years old I don't think a visit from the police would be out of order.
Would hopefully scare the crap out of them so they didn't do anything like it again.

This. And I truly hope the op is a troll otherwise poor poor girl.

Another vote here for the police and taking your daughter to have her checked over medically so it’s reported for the police to have a copy off for possible charges (and to obviously make sure she’s ok with no damage)

Little fuckers how dare they?! Your poor DD. She wouldn’t be in school on Monday but I’d be up there at the office demanding they are suspended immediately.

From the information given by the by the OP it is circumstantial... Her dd has said that someone put laxatives in her water. Which she may or may not have drunk.
How many of you would tolerate your child being excluded or having the crap scared out of them by the police at 6 years of age on the day so of another child.

I would not be overly amused by the assumption of guilt before any investigation had been done by the school and if appropriate by the police.

I'd be tempted to run them over with my car, although I appreciate that's the wrong answer.

That's a particularly nasty form of bullying- your poor DD has been poisoned :( I hope she's as well and okay as she can be x

Police and also child protection at your local council. Obviously the safeguarding officer at the school has done jack shit if you haven’t been asked to go into the school. Has your daughter provided a statement? Also I’d take her to a paediatrician because this amount of laxatives could have led to organ damage.

Are they 6 years old?

If my child had done this, I would honestly welcome these punishments. I would be absolutely beside myself, and want them to understand the gravity of what they'd done.

We don't know.. the op posted and left. Another poster said even if they were 6yo they would get the police involved

I would be contacting the police on the girls - this is actual bodily harm.

Maybe then might they learn not to be so bloody nasty.

How do you know , OP , that your DD had laxatives put in her drink ? Who informed you ? I guess it wasn't the school or there would be a follow up .

I would also contact the police, and follow up with the school to insist on a meeting to discuss how they'll be proceeding in terms of consequences for the kids that did it, additional support for your DD, and a comprehensive plan as to how they'll stop anything similar happening ever again. I'm so sorry for your DD.

As a Governor, that would be a permanent exclusion in our school.

@ExtraOnions but an investigation would have to be carried out before automatically excluding. Exclusions have to go to a panel to ensure all processes followed.

@octoberfarm school don’t have to/can’t tell you consequences for the other children

I cant think of any laxative that is water soluble other than prescription ones like picolax. You'd have known if she'd had that for sure.
I hope you kept the bottle and whatever was left in it or you won't have any evidence.