A third-grade boy was dragged into your bathrooms at his Harlem elementary school and forced to do oral sèx on three male classmates, including one who was associated with an attack on a female student two years earlier, in accordance with a bombshell lawsuit.
The 8-year-old boy had just finished lunch at Public School 194 and was in a hallway awaiting class to begin when a fifth-grader, the ringleader, and two third-graders pushed him screaming and pleading for help into your bathrooms stall, the lawsuit says.
He said one boy held his hands behind his back throughout the March 2012 attack while another forced him to his knees.
The three culprits then took turns pulling their pants down and demanded that the victim perform oral sèx, in accordance with court papers.
“When I was going on line three kids drag me to the restroom and they pull down there (sic) pants,” the lawsuit says he wrote in a statement to the school. “I told them no but they didn't listen to me.”
After the boys were finished with their sick session, the terrified victim rushed to class and told a teacher what happened, in accordance with a written report filed to the Education Department by officials at the W. 144th St. school.
He recalled that the perverse pupils “told everyone” in what they made him do.
The teacher alerted guidance counselor Alicia Blackwood and principal Josephine Bazan, who called the boy's mother.
“I don't learn how to explain this for your requirements, however your son was in the restroom and was forced to do oral sèx on three boys,” the mother, whose name will be withheld by the News, recalled Bazan telling her when she attained the school.
The mother said she's filing a $6 million lawsuit Friday against the city Education Department in Manhattan Supreme Court for “emotional and psychological anguish,” and for failing to alert parents and authorities that the ringleader had a history as a “sèxual deviant.”
Through the 2009-2010 school year, he was accused of touching a third-grade girl under her skirt throughout a reading class, in accordance with case filed last week by the girl's mother.
The lawsuit says the principal at the time, Charyn Koppelson, did nothing to punish the young perpetrator, or at the least discourage his lewd behavior — and allowed him to carry on attending the school as if nothing had happened.
“She said, ‘He's just a young child,' ” the girl's mom told the News in March. “(The incidents) were never put in the system at all.”
The attack on the boy happened only a month after Koppelson had been reassigned in January 2012 and replaced by Bazan, a 23-year department veteran. Koppelson was removed to a college administrator rotation pool.
Following the attack on the boy, both third-graders received a five-day suspension, and the ringleader — who has since left the institution — received a 10-day suspension, the lawsuit says.
According to DOE regulations, a five-day suspension is warranted if students engaged in “inappropriate or unwanted physical contact or touching someone in a personal part of body.”
A superintendent's suspension, whenever a student is booted from school for a lot more than six days, is recommended when students partake within an “act of coercion or threatening violence, injury or harm to others.”
It can be the consequence if a student engages in “physical sèxual aggression/compelling or forcing another to participate in sèxual activity.”
The boy, now 9, got a safety transfer to some other school around three weeks after the assault.
His furious mom said she wound up being the one who called police from the 32nd Precinct after her emotional ending up in Bazan and Blackwood.
Education Department regulations say police should be notified if a criminal incident on campus poses an “immediate safety emergency.”
The mom said she was outraged that the ringleader was permitted to go home before police arrived at the school.
Cops arrested both third-graders at the institution on sèxual misconduct charges. The fifth-grader was arrested for a passing fancy charges later at the precinct, the lawsuit says.
The end result of charges against minors is not public.
A spokesman for the Education Department said he could not touch upon pending litigation.
Bazan, when approached by a reporter about the bathroom incident, said, “It's a legal matter. I can't comment.”
P.S. 194 has been on the state's listing of “persistently dangerous” schools since 2011.
A college makes the list when six violent incidents per 100 students are reported.
In line with the state's newest data, there were 11 physical assaults at the institution with weapons and five physical assaults without weapons in academic year 2010-11.
The mother's Manhattan-based lawyer, Tahanie Aboushi, said both of the incidents should have now been stopped by school authorities.
“These children are all victims of a thing that has been prevented,” she said.
The boy's mother said she watched her son become distant and withdrawn after the bathroom assault.
“He would get up in the midst of the night time screaming and crying,” she said. “My son was an extremely joyful, loving young boy, and another couple of weeks after that he would just sit down and stare at the wall. He never stepped foot inside that school ever again.”
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