Here is the article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Some of the details here were reported on my local news in Baltimore. My assertions that the attack was sexual was based on the tv story not the CNN article.
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The two boys who got the lesser punishment kissed the girl, a district official said. Other boys held her down. Authorities were trying to determine the extent of the sexual contact. The victim's great-aunt said that based on her conversations with the girl and with her own son, who was at the school that day, she believed the boys were trying to poke their fingers into her and that the girl was fighting to keep her underpants on.
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Full article here
My local news reported that the girl's statement was that they were trying to pull off her underwear and were trying to "poke her with their privates." The report was clear that this was not just a gang of kids that happened to be boys picking on another kid that happened to be a girl. Our children are being exposed to more and more sexual content at younger and younger ages. Children replicate and repeat what they see and hear. I have friends who are elementary school teachers who have been sexually propositioned by third, second and even first graders. Believe it or not, it happens.
