How on earth could this have happened - where were the staff?

[moffat]

Just seen this news.bbc.co.uk/1/wales/8598136.stm - where were the staff, and why were six yr olds doing this?

Your link doesn't work

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8598136.stm - thanks buzzingnoise

Oh my goodness. That's shocking.

That is just appalling.

Just been reading this story myself.

If it wasn't the fact that it is a BBC report, I just wouldn't believe the details in it.

A 6 yr old girl being stripped, abused and bullied by her entire class of 23 other 6 year olds, on a daily basis for months on end AND NOBODY NOTICED.

Have I read that wrong, because that can't be right surely?

Where the hell were all the staff when this was going on?

the whole thing is so weird

why were six yr olds left unsupervised?
the same thing had happened to another (perhaps more) girl.
the perpetrators were too young to be prosecuted but they did need help/punishment
I can't imagine any school where staff would not pick up something strange going on.

Its very hard to form an opinion without knowing more. What makes the mother think her daughter was crying out for help from the teachers when she herself didn't know anything about it for months? Where did the abuse take place? Its a sad and strange story but only half a story, I think.

very strange story indeed.

Shocking. but I'm finding it very hard to believe to be honest with you.

It sounds to me like an overly tasteless attempt at an April Fool.

too grim to be a joke I would think, although aspects of it are hard to believe - sounds like no-one has been held accountable at all.

Of course its not a bloody joke!

I was going by the fact that it seemed to have been deleted. I accept that it is another dreadful thing - rather than a stupid joke.

Very strange that it has been deleted.

That is so weird, the story has been deleted. I am so confused, was it an April Fools joke? Who would be that sick?

@ johnhemming - don't be so ridiculous. What bibbity said.

There will have to be some details left out as the victim has a legal right to anonymity. Speaking as a journo, that sometimes means you have to leave quite a bit out. If you're reporting a sexual assault against a 23 year old woman in London, you can quite easily give the London suburb or even the street (if it's a long one like the Holloway Road) without risking identifying her. If it's a six year old suddenly taken out of a school in Wales, that would be pretty easy to piece together if you knew which local area.

It's still on the BBC website

I can load it again now. If it was deleted and then put up again, possibly (just a guess) the lawyer was concerned about something that was said. Under those circs, you'd rip it straight down rather than leaving the old story live while you made modifications (as you would do just to update a story)

Daily Mail online are leading on it atm...

Please don't anyone tell me this country hasn't gone to hell when you have 23 6 yr olds physically and sexually abusing a child in a school and nobody notices ffs.

I pulled my dd out of school because she was being physically abused by three boy classmates every break, two to hold her arms while one punched her in the stomach repeatedly, they took turns, and nobody noticed and when they were told nobody did anything.

This makes me sick.

Daily Mail link here

See now when I read a story like this scanadlised by something like the Daily Mail I immediately think .

But the original story was from the BBC so I just really don't know what to make of this.

I cannot imagine that a 6 yr old being stripped and abused by 23 classmates could go unnoticed even in the most under-funded, deprived, lowest achieving school in the country.

And they are trying to suggest that this happenned on a daily basis.

I've just read this on the MSN website and it makes me sick to my stomach knowing that this happened - how could it cross a 6 year old mind to do this to another child? Where on earth were the teachers?

My DD is starting school this year and I am thinking of ways how to discuss bully and unacceptable behaviour with her when she starts school. An advice or tips without scaring her??