Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:37:24 -0700 From: [email protected] (Rick Tompkins/Kathy Harrer) Subject: [lpaz-repost] Still got your kids in the Dewey Camps? To: [email protected]
>Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:09:56 -0500
>From: "INFORM AMERICA!" <[email protected]>
>Organization: INFORM AMERICA!
>To: Gordon Phillips <[email protected]>
>
>Another excellent reason to pull your children out of the Dewey Camps.
>
>Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 00:33:59 -0500
>Organization: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
>
>Parents Outraged After Son Strip-Searched At School
>
>Source:
>http://www.kcncnews4.com/now/story/0,1597,275184-326,00.shtml
>
> Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - 01:32 PM ET
>
> (KCNC) Parents of an eight-year-old Fort Collins boy
> say they are outraged that teachers strip-searched
> their little boy at school. The school claims it was
> looking for signs of child abuse, but the search turned
> up nothing. NEWS4 Investigator Brian Maass tells us
> more.
>
> The parents have no criminal record in Colorado and
> say they have never been contacted by any child
> protection agency. But based on a complaint, Jim and
> Kim Tassitano's eight-year-old son Nick was
> strip-searched at school.
>
> Nick Tassitano likes what most eight-year-olds like, but
> he doesn't like what happened at Odea Elementary
> School in Fort Collins.
>
> It was December 1st. Nick was in 2nd grade at Odea. A
> teacher and vice principal pulled him into an office.
>
> "They pulled down my pants and one of them, Miter
> Grote took my underwear and looked if there were any
> scars or scratches," remembered Nick.
>
> Brian Maass asked, "Do you remember what they said
> to you?"
>
> "We're just going to see if you have any scars or
> bruises they said that. "I just pulled my pants down
> and Mister Grote went and just looked," answered Nick.
>
> "How'd that make you feel?"
>
> "Uncomfortable."
>
> Nick says another adult at the school talked to him
> after the search.
>
> It didn't take long for Nick's parents to find out what
> happened.
>
> "To remove his underwear to look at his genitals and
> buttock area that was uncalled for. This wasn't
> Nicholas removing his underwear. This was a male
> teacher with no supervisor removing his underwear,"
> said Nick's mother Kim Tassitano.
>
> "I think what they did was outrageous. I'm very angry
> that they feel so justified in this," said Jim Tassitano.
>
> The school confirms teachers searched Nick for signs
> of bruises, apparently after an unsubsantiated report
> of abuse.
>
> The school's attorney says, "The district has done
> nothing wrong. This examination was done in the
> utmost reasonable good faith and nothing inappropriate
> or indecent was intended or occurred."
>
> But what triggered the strip search? The school's not
> saying. But according to a Fort Collins Police report,
> "social services had not requested the search."
>
> Nick's parents have moved him to a private school.
> They insist the only time Nick was ever abused, was
> when he was strip searched at school.
>
> Colorado law says teachers have an obligation to
> report suspected child abuse to police or social
> services. The law says nothing about school officials
> conducting strip searches. Not only did Larimer County
> Social Services say they did not request the search,
> but an employee there says they would not suggest
> teachers investigate on their own and do a strip
> search.
>
> Finally, the Tassitanos say on occasion they spank
> Nicholas, but they say tha's as far as it goes. The
> Tassitanos have notified the school district they may
> sue for half a million dollars.
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