7-Year-Old Accused Of Sexual Harassment Transferred To New School

December 5, 2011 2:04 PM

Mark Curran, who was accused of sexual harassment for kicking an alleged bully in the groin, will be moved to a new school.

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BOSTON (CBS) – A 7-year-old boy accused of sexual harassment for kicking another student in the groin will be transferred to a new school in the city of Boston.

The first grader’s mother, Tasha Lynch, met with Tynan Elementary School officials for a disciplinary hearing on Monday. She had said her son, Mark Curran, was defending himself when he kicked an alleged bully in the crotch.

Lynch told WBZ-TV Monday that her two children will be transferred to a new school in the city. Lynch said she will keep her kids out of school until the transfer process, which can take up to 48 hours, is complete.

Lynch also told WBZ-TV that both of her sons are happy with the change.

No charges will be filed in the incident.

The school declined commenting on the hearing, calling it a “specific student disciplinary matter.”

Steven H.

The Bully won to choke another day! Great job Tynan Elementary School, you’re a fine example of what state legislation can do to save people from bullies literally choking the life out of them…nothing.

Pathetic. Throw this fine example in the Governor’s face should he ever talk about bullying again. It’s alive, well, and the schools refuse to do anything except punish people who try to defend themselves.
Good-for-you-kid

This really shows you how “serious” schools take this “No bullying” stance. A little boy is bullied, stands up for himself, and HE’S the one to get in trouble? Good for him kicking that kid in the crotch. He stuck up for himself, something that not enough kids do. Maybe if every kid that was picked on stuck up for themselves there wouldn’t be as much bullying. OR maybe if the schools did what they were supposed to do and disiplined the kids doing the bullying there would be less of it too….
gramps

Is that all?

No statment from the ‘City of Boston’?

Just arrogance?

gramps

MF

“City of Boston” will do what every organization does – hide behind the privacy laws. “We cannot comment on this matter due to privacy regulations.” Yadda yadda yadda. Far too often, privacy laws do far more to protect the guilty than to protect the innocent.
gramp’s

Mr. Mayor,

You’re willingness to get involved with ‘Southies’ shelved out parking spaces,
tells me you have the ‘GUSTO’ to get involved in the Hub’s,school system’s …
‘Gonad-Gate’ !

Your ‘School system has become the ‘laughing stock’ of the ‘Nation’….Since this disgraceful situation centered around ‘Testicles & Self Defense’…..

FYI:

Your school department is telling us that there’s nobody in the ‘Boston Public School System’ with the….. ‘SACK’….. to do their JOB, step forward & ‘EXPLAIN’?

Outrageous!

They’re hiding & won’t do their job’s…

Will you do it for them?

gramps…..PS

We don’t want to know about the ‘kids’, we want to know about your ‘ADULT ADMINISTRATORS’!
gramps

Mr. Mayor,

Your ‘School system’ has become the ‘laughing stock’ of the ‘Nation’!

Your displayed willingness to get involved with ‘Southies’ snow shelving habits with respect parking spaces, tells me you have the ‘GUSTO & TESTICLES’ to get involved in the Hub’s School System’s……

‘Gonad-Gate’.!

FYI:

Your school department is telling us that there’s nobody in the ‘Boston Public School System’ with the….. ‘SACK’….. to do their JOB, step forward & ‘EXPLAIN’ this debacle?

Outrageous!….

They refuse do their job’s & stand by their decisions, yet we/you allow them to teach our kids?…. “Disgraceful!

Will/could you do it for them?

gramps…..PS

We don’t want to know about the ‘kids’, we want to know about your ‘ADULT, PUBLIC SERVICE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS’!
mike

No statement from the elementary school, not from the “City of Boston”. Read more carefully. Mom is merely transferring her children to another school within the city of Boston.
amtr

Is it not interesting that the picture of the bully wasn’t published. Can we all guess why?

Sheri

Of course we all know why. The disgusting bully is either black or muslim.

We live in north Alabama in the town next to the one where a 14 year old kid was shot a year and a half ago at school. What most of the media isn’t reporting is that the victim was black and the shooter is muslim. The muslim kid had just been back one week from the alternative school for bad kids. The muslim kid’s daddy is a doctor. Doctor Daddy got the best lawyer money can buy and got his kid out of jail, claiming he was mentally ill. It hasn’t been reported yet if Doctor Daddy is married or not (if he is apparently mommy or stepmommy works too). The shooter was expelled from school. No one is home all day so the muslim shooter boy roams the streets. I’m sure glad we don’t live in that neighborhood.

Anyway the trial will be this spring (Two Years after the crime was committed) and of course the defense is going to be insanity. I think the kid will get what is coming to him though because there isn’t a jury in this state that won’t convict him unless it’s made up of mostly blacks and muslims.
freecheese

Yeah, I can guess why the bully’s pic wasn’t posted. He’ BLACK !
Republicrat

Privacy laws prevent the release of minor’s information without parent’s consent. The victim’s parents consented to having his information posted. The bully’s parents did not.

The Sage Waitress

Gramps…most education majors are kids who go to college for seven years, smoking weed and drinking between classes like Esoteric Paradigms and Queer Theory. Then their student loans run out and the college has to give them a degree, so they get one in education. Those who are ill-equipped to teach (most of them) find jobs in “education administration”.

So that is what he have here: a bunch of burnouts and druggies in positions of power, with no idea of how to use this power.
ken

Gramps, You ask a lot of good questions. I’ll be curious to know if/when anything is done about this.
Don Woribouit

Does he have to register as a sex offender too then?

hiway280z

Good idea but, he needs to go to prison for forty years first. If he was 8 we could have gotthelittle sex offender and put him death row. (Sarcasim intended)
Our Country has gone nuts.

gramps

Just asking?

What about the kid who stole his gloves & tried to ‘CHOKE HIM TO DEATH’?

“ANYTHING”?

gramps……..PS

Who are the ‘ADMINISTRATIVE MORONS’ that said that this was a ”sexual harassment’ issue?

Their must be a least 2/3 Administrators that O.K.’d & produced this situation. The ‘taxpayers’ have a right to know, who & why!

Are they still employed?…… If so, ‘WHY’?…..Were they even disciplined @ all?

Why are they being protected!!!
ggramps

Mr. Mayor,

Your ‘School system’ has become the ‘laughing stock’ of the ‘Nation’!

Your displayed willingness to get involved with ‘Southies’ snow shelving habits with respect parking spaces, tells me you have the ‘GUSTO & TESTICLES’ to get involved in the Hub’s School System’s……

‘Gonad-Gate’.!

FYI:

Your school department is telling us that there’s nobody in the ‘Boston Public School System’ with the….. ‘SACK’….. to do their JOB, step forward & ‘EXPLAIN’ this debacle?

Outrageous!….

They refuse do their job’s & stand by their decisions, yet we/you allow them to teach our kids?…. “Disgraceful!

Will/could you do it for them?

gramps…..PS

We don’t want to know about the ‘kids’, we want to know about your ‘ADULT, PUBLIC SERVICE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS’!
gramps

Boy, It’s a good thing that ‘Dean College’ isn’t part of the ‘Boston Public School System’!!

Cause that student that got beat up would be in ‘DEEP TROUBLE”!

gramps

gramps

Just asking.

What about the kid who stole his gloves & tried to ‘CHOKE HIM TO DEATH’?

gramps……..PS

Who are the ‘MORONS’ that said that this was a ”sexual harassment’ issue?

Their must be a least 2/3 idiots that produced this situation. The ‘taxpayers’ have a right to know, who & why!

Are they still employed?…… If so, ‘WHY’?…..Were they even disciplined @ all?

Why are they being protected!!!
response

good questions gramps….can’t wait to hear the update on this story
Catharine from RI

What a bunch of B.S. If my kid defended himself from a bully in that manner I’d get him an icecream cone. Seriously, what a bunch of jerks treating the boy as if he did something sexual when he defending himself. I’m disgusted. And ‘Gramps’: I agree w/ your sentiments 100%!!!! They need to answer to someone for their actions and they should also be fired!

AA

You might get him an ice cream cone. But MINE reacted with WORDS and wound up in court. If you are not the right color … well….
Alleycat

He should have kicked him twice. Then, I’d have gotten him a double-dipper.
Eileen

Catharine….I am with you 100%. I am so tired of the BULLIES being PROTECTED! What the *&%$ is WRONG with these school administrators? How do they even BEGIN to rationalize that?! SMDH @ the state of this country as of late :-(

Liz

Forgot the whole issue of the kid kicking another kid… that’s a big one, but… why is this kid’s name and PHOTO released to the public!! Now every parent who sees this (and any other news station) will take anything this child does in the future and will use this as further damning evidence. The poor child will never be taken at face value. He’ll always carry this with him, whether he knows that or not! Shame on WBZ and another other news station for showing his name and picture.

Italo

EXACTLY, Liz. I think that is reprehensible, whereas if another under-age-16 individual is charged with something such as, say, murder or some other crime, their photo can be withheld. I wonder if the other student who tried to choke this one, has been charged with tracheal vandalism, or perhaps property theft for attempted robbery of a fellow student’s Adam’s Apple?
Hammer

Liz, it is beyond foolish to publish the child’s picture and name, and this rag of a news service should be called out and sued for that one.

On the other hand, let’s NOT forget the whole issue of the kid kicking the other kid. Instead, let’s make an issue of the difference between criminal aggression (choking for theft) and innocent defense (a kick to the groin). Justice demands we make a distinction between those guilty and those innocent, the wolves among us and the sheep among us. One of the basic rights of all people is to protect oneself from violence. In this case, the kick to the groin should be commended, and that disciplinary hearing had the wrong child in tow.

gramps

I think ‘BZ’ asked for & got permission from the mother to publish pic’s & names.

gramps

Bunky

They did it because he isn’t black.
If he was black, his likeness nor his name would be published.
It would all be hush hush except for the other kid who would be indicted for a hate crime.
Welcome to the new USA!
ggramps

‘BZ’ probably got an OK to print names show pic’s….

There ‘was’ a TV interview with the mother.

gramps
Republicrat

The parents authorized the release of this information.

Linda

Be glad Mom that your boys were transferred to another school, apparently this school is a dysfunctional disaster. May God bless you & your boys and I pray they get an excellent education.

TheRealKingMax

“pray that they get an excellent education”????!

Linda, with all due respect, you’re a born optimist.

He’ll still be in a Boston public school. He’ll be getting his butt kicked while Comrade Teacher will be filling his head full of NEA communist crap and how glorious Chairman Obama is.

That boy will be lucky to survive now that some cretin put his pic up on the websites.

Linda

Where’s the pictures of the kid who tried to choke this boy, the dumb teachers who call this sexual harassment and the idiot principal who went along with it. Tells me where their minds are and I don’t mean in the education department.

Jonathan

Why are victims and aggressors treated ALIKE in this liberal nightmare of a society?!!!!! People should jam the school’s phone lines in protest!!!

Veritas

That school needs to be “kicked in the testicles” by the parents in the district. Do not cave to the ridiculousness, Ms. Lynch! Demand the firing of the officials who decided this was “sexual harassment”. By simply transferring schools, you are condoning the administration’s behavior. Stand up for truth.
Xman

Sue the school for unjust justice or injustice.

If I was being choked, a quick kick to the groin will free my neck!
It is not sexual harassment, it is saving your own life.

Amos

Suing would only affect the property owners and taxpayers. These dysfunctional school administrators and law enforcement officers could care less if the mother sued. It is patently evident that the sifting process of the education system failed to weed out these people before they attained their levels of incompetency.

rhonda

I am appalled that the name and photo of this child have been released. The news media apparently has no sense of responsibility to protect this child from further humiliation, labeling or harassment. I wonder how long his name and the words sexual harassment will be intertwined in the land of google.
Jonn

This is what Martha Coakly means whenb she says self help is discouraged…….that is why people need to change things by voting….we had the chance last elections but this state keeps voting the same people in….
OldJetDriver

This is what you get when you put liberal, politically correct people in charge of anything…
Scott G

An anti bullying campaign at its finest!!
Ken Pittman

I dont see this as a sexual issue but why is the photo and ID of the child made known? I thought there are privacy issues under certain ages?
BILL MCNEAL

THAT’S WHAT I WOULD WANT MY KID TO DO IF HE WAS PICKED ON, WOULD’T YOU????? THE WRONG KID WAS MOVED!!!WHAT B/S!!!
david longley

There’is something missing from this story, like why the administrators are protecting the bully. Someone should look into that and report on it.

AFL-CIO worker

I guarantee he’s black. That’s why.

Japes Macfarland

So the bullied kid has to move schools and the bully gets to stay. (The bully should be charged with attempted murder…since they ‘went there’ w/ the sexual assault allegation…i.e. psychologically abusing the victim. Disgusting, heartless leftist bureaucrats.)
Martnique

Common sense is the first casualty of liberalism.
Friend Willie

These people are educating our children? I wouldn’t trust them to feed goldfish. This is liberalism run amok.
Bruce M Jaqua

Anti-bullying apparently means do not pick on or identify the bully. I am willing to bet anything that the bully is either the kid of an illegal or something to that effect. It would perfectly explain why the screwel system is keeping that information quiet.
Databyter

They TEACH women to kick attackers in the groin because they are smaller and weaker.
So why does this logic not apply to a young child being attacked by an older bully?

Japes Macfarland

Why? because little white boys can’t be exploited and used by the Left as a “minority” group, like woman can. (of course it’s still logical, but this is why it isn’t encouraged)
For example, ever wonder why the Left doesn’t consider Cuban Americans or Iranian Americans as a ‘minority’? It’s because they generally don’t fall for leftism and don’t vote Left. If they can’t control you, they aren’t interested in you. The Left has *nothing* to do with compassion. Leftism just capitalizes on compassion and demonizes its ideological opponents relentlessly to alter perception in the cultural ether.

Stacey Bridgefield

Kicking someone in the genitals IS sexual assault. But this kid was obviously defending himself. However, people (especially women) who kick guys in the genitals simply because they are having an argument need to be prosecuted. There is no reason to put another human being through that level of physical pain simply due to a disagreement, and everyone knows that if a man kicked a woman in the groin it would certainly be considered sexual assault.
Hammer

Where I live, this school is becoming a laughingstock, and the butt of myriad jokes…