A woman in Barrie, Canada is considering legal action against her child’s school after claims of sexual abuse were made to the Children’s Aid Society. The student’s "educational assistant" went to a psychic who told her that ’somebody with a name starting with the letter "v" was being sexually abused by a 23-26 year old man. From the National Post:
Shortly after arriving home, Ms. Leduc received a phone call from Victoria’s teacher.
"The teacher said you have to come back to school right away — it’s urgent. My heart was racing," said Ms. Leduc, who went back to the school and met with the teacher, vice-principal and principal.
"The teacher looked at me and said: ‘We have to tell you something. We have to tell you that Victoria’s EA went to see a psychic and the psychic asked her if she works with a little girl with the initial V. When the EA said yes, the psychic said, ‘Well, you need to know that this girl is being sexually abused by a man between the ages of 23 and 26.’"
The school officials then gave Ms. Leduc a list of behaviours that Victoria was exhibiting.
"You must remember that Victoria has severe autism and is entering puberty so she is exhibiting behaviours that are very common with children of this age but, being autistic and not having been taught otherwise, she will exhibit these behaviours in public," Ms. Leduc said.
The list included putting her hands down her pants, spitting, seeking to sit on cold objects and gyrating against staff members.
"The principal looks at me and says, ‘We’ve called CAS.’ Then I got sick to my stomach.
"I challenged them and asked if the other children in the class with autism exhibited these behaviours. They said, ‘Oh yes, all the time.’ But they were not reported to the CAS because they didn’t have the psychic’s tip."
This is some stupid s#!+. Nobody should ever consider the vague ramblings of a psychic to be evidence in a criminal case. This could have ended a lot worse, and I’m glad to say that as soon as the CAS got involved, the investigation was ended.
Remember: Psychic’s don’t need your gas money.
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on Jun 21st, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Wow, this is such a weird
Wow, this is such a weird story. It seriously makes me question the validity of the situation, given the fact that a "psychic" said all these things without having that great of detail. It makes me question if indeed the child was being abused that maybe the "psychic," had something to do with it or real knowledge of who was doing this. Other than that I find it odd that a school would react to something a "psychic" said.