Something doesn’t ring true about this story from Edmonton;
An Edmonton elementary school has a new policy on washroom breaks and has revised an old policy on recess.
This, after a Grade Two student was sexually assaulted in the girls bathroom during morning recess yesterday by a man hiding in a stall.
Officials at the Oliver School are ordering all students to go to the bathroom in pairs.
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Carlson says it appears the girl was groped and that her only physical injury is a bump on the head.
It doesn’t ring true because of the location and the extreme degree of risk. A school washroom is a trap in more ways than one – they’re not only single exit rooms, they’re single exit rooms inside a building with hundreds of potential witnesses. Help is only feet away. And, while there’s a high likelihood of finding a victim in his preferred age range, there’s low likelihood of finding one a lone, vulnerable one. Girls tend to travel in pairs or packs, and the appearance of a male in a girls washroom would elicit instant alarm – shrieks – from little girls. Anyone as familiar with the habits of young children as a pedophile brazen enough to grab a girl in broad daylight should know all of these things.
The girl was attacked around 10:15 a.m. Monday as she stopped to use the washroom on the way out to the playground during morning recess at Oliver School, just west of Edmonton’s downtown.
“An unknown male approached her from one of the stalls in the girls’ bathroom, dragged her into the stall and sexually assaulted her,” police spokesman Jeff Wuite said.
The school, which houses students from kindergarten to Grade 9, was locked down for about two hours after the incident while police confirmed the suspect was no longer on the premises.
The reports I’ve heard indicate the only witness was the child herself. Unless the alleged molester was very young and “new” to the game, or of diminished mental capacity, the high-risk behavior described in this story doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Actually, pedophiles are notoriously DIFFICULT to catch as even the ones who aren’t family members manage to secure the trust or complicity of the child often for years.
As for this particular case, this individual apparently entered Oliver school precisely during the one 15 minute span of the day where the doors weren’t locked down.
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As for another posting about “George W. Bush hiring pedophiles”, one can quickly observe that the Alberta Teachers Association can easily be tarred with that same brush. Anybody still want to try this argument?
Lordy, Lordy! This doesn’t ring true at all! Turns out the man exposing himself to little children was a .. a.. policeman! Now this just does not “ring true,” does it?
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Where were the hall monitors? Where were the hall supervisors? Most schools have teachers at recess to watch the halls. We have a known sex offender living in our neighbourhood. He’s a repeat rapist. How do these people get out of jail so soon. That poor little kid will have scars the rest of her life. I hope they catch the bastard. He must’ve been watching the school for awhile. That’s what they do to pick the right time to commit their crime.
GOOD NEWS…
It looks like the man who was “alleged” to have assaulted the girl in the Edmonton washroom was collared.
By a civilian father hero, Michael Wong, among other men.
The person (who is theoretically not a suspect, but the victim in this case believes its the same man… and he was arrested by citizens in HER playground WHILE she was playing maybe a hundred metres away) had blonde/orange stripes in his black hair.
He put up a fight, but was overwhelmed.
Catch the story, including a video of the man who is being questioned on CTV here.
Correction: the name of the courageous father who arrested the man is Brian Wong.