The Mother, The Child, The School Board And The Psychic

[Garm]

Leduc's weird tale began on May 30, when she dropped young Victoria off for class at Terry Fox Elementary and headed in to work, only to receive a frantic phone call from the school telling her it was urgent she come back right away.

The frightened mother rushed back to the campus and was stunned by what she heard - the principal, vice-principal and her daughter's teacher were all waiting for her in the office, telling her they'd received allegations that Victoria had been the victim of sexual abuse - and that the CAS had been notified.

"The teacher looked and me and said: 'We have to tell you something. The educational assistant who works with Victoria went to see a psychic last night, and the psychic asked the educational assistant at that particular time if she works with a little girl by the name of "V." And she said 'yes, I do.' And she said, 'well, you need to know that that child is being sexually abused by a man between the ages of 23 and 26.'"

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_23845.aspx

[BlackLili]

What horrific bullshit.

I hope her suit against the school board goes before a judge who knows about Autism and he leverages a fine so high against the board that they'll have to go to her for funding for their sports teams.

/fuming

[aranarose]

Wow. Just... wow.

I think the mother needs to find the psychic and smack her upside the head. As a reader myself, I've gotten some pretty interesting tidbits, and feel that I'm to share everything I pick up in a reading with my client. But as a person who has also gotten readings, I know that not everything is accurate, and not everything is truly meant for me. Sometimes readers, myself included, are wrong.

The TA and the school handled this so completely wrong, they need to be beat. If I'd been the one who had received the reading, I might have watched the child a bit more closely, and then if I had suspicions might have done something, but to immediately run to the school board and say "She's being abused," is just reckless.

However, I can almost understand why the school reacted in the way that they did. Imagine if the child were being abused, and they had failed to report, the kind of uproar that there would be.