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.

Absolutely report this to the police. This is a very serious poisoning event. The school should also take this seriously and at any of my schools, this would likely be a permanent exclusion.

There is a huge difference between some kids saying they put laxatives in the water that the child had just drunk and some kids putting laxatives in the water and forcing the child to drink it. The first would not be a police matter and best dealt with by the school and the latter would be a police matter.

Without more information we have no idea what went on. The school pick up could be because the child was upset by kids being verbally nasty or it could be because the child was shitting everywhere and in immediate need of medical care because of a laxative allergy. The former not a police matter. The latter certainly a police matter.

In both cases a school matter.

Police report. This is drugging a person. Don't give up until something is done.

That's disgusting, your poor daughter! In my DD's school there would be serious consequences for this, if the school aren't taking it seriously involve the police

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

If it turned out that mine had done that I absolutely would want them to know it's not acceptable.
As someone with allergies I take that kind of stuff really seriously and others need to as well.
They need to know they can't just go around doing that to others, and it's never too early to learn that. Plus of course it's assault.

You surely would know your child and I bet the girls who did this aren't very nice and are known to the school. So stop enabling the behaviour and don't always believe what your kid says.

What utterly horrid little bastards those bullies are. That’s a clear criminal assault. Definitely police. Bypass school entirely until you have involved police to avoid being dissuaded from bringing them in. You absolutely don’t want this minimised in any way. (assuming there is certainty this is what happened).

From your post it seems the school are aware of the offence and the perpetrators’ parents have been told. How did you find out and have you been given any reason why they remain in class instead of instant suspension? They deserve to be criminally charged and expelled. I truly hope your daughter ends up able to attend school without dealing with these horrors ever again.

I am not saying that they aren't nice kids or otherwise.. I am saying from the information given by the OP we don't know.
We don't know the background, extent or circumstances. We don't know if the OP has a habit of making up stories for attention or the laxative administrators are serial killers in the making....

It's the police's job to retain the water bottle as evidence and find out who did it, not the OP's!

That is wicked
Your poor Girl

YANBU at all

Some extra clarification from the OP here would be nice.... seems to have left

It is absolutely a police matter regardless of if force was used. If someone has been poisoned, which is what this is, then it is a criminal offence under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.

But the school has to do a thorough investigation before excluding.

I have been on an exclusion panel that has had to overturn an exclusion as paperwork/process not correct. Didn’t mean child hadn’t behaved horrendously

Something similar happened at our school recently, though it wasn’t laxatives. I don’t actually know if anything happened with the child who did it. She is still in school, but has pretty useless parents so it’s not surprising really. But the parents of the child are suing the school supposedly.

My God... 'policy, policy, policy'. Are you serious?
Respectfully, if this happened to my child, I wouldn't give a shit about policy.
Much like the bullies clearly don't!

just going to say the same

I would go straight to the police. It is assault.

The lado officer from the council should be informed

If this genuinely happened OP then I’m really sorry. Even them saying/pretending they did is also utterly despicable.

If they have spiked her, then the police. Even if they only said they did, get really tough with the school, ask for a meeting, find out what they’re going to do about it, don’t let them brush you off. Go over their heads to the board/LEA if they don’t respond to you i a satisfactory manner. They clearly haven’t been tackling the bullying of its reported to this.

There is no other action than calling the Police. Those bitches need sorting out.

@Treelichen If the police turned up at your door and your child had been excluded because your child had said ... Not done just said they had put laxatives in a water bottle you would be happy with that response?

From the information given we have no evidence of anything being done other than on person saying that another has done something.

Do you have proof? How do you know this is what happened? Personally I would expect the bullies to be expelled permanently, and would not return my child unless that happened. Agree you should take DD to be seen so there is a medical record.

Contact the police. That’s awful. Make her know that absolutely everyone knows it’s completely unacceptable. So sorry to hear it.

What proof do you have that her bottle was spiked? If you have the bottle you could go to the police and it could be finger printed and a sample taken - it could be hard to prove anything without an eyewitness or forensic evidence.
In any event, the school should raise the issue in assembly outlining what a serious criminal offence this is and the potential consequences to those who commit such an offence.

What!? A case of actual bodily harm? Er, yes... 🙄