Emotional meeting for parents following primary school sexual assault incident

IT was an emotional day for the parents of two eight-year-old children as they met with detectives at their school yesterday following an alleged incident of sexual assault.

- NICOLA DANIELS

One of the children allegedly assaulted the other on the school premises on Tuesday last week.

“We got there, the detective came in, and we just waited. The detective then called us in. He just said, he knows exactly what happened. He interviewed a few people, it happened at the back of the school by the tree. There were three witnesses that saw,” the father said. According to the parent, when they and the parents of the alleged perpetrator heard what had happened, they were all very emotional.