Photo: Marija JankovićAn eleven-year-old fifth-grade student at a school near Mali Crnić near Požarevac suffered physical violence and sexual abuse from her peers for six months. The higher public prosecutor qualified the act as rape
The higher public prosecutor's office regaled the occasion cases of physical and sexual abuse eleven-year-old schoolgirl, in Toponica near Požarevac. It was assessed that it was rape in the fifth grade. The perpetrators are the girl's peers from the class.
The father of the abused girl, Sanel Stepanović, told the media that they found out about the case only when, five days after the abuse, the school principal showed them the video.
Stepanović claims that the family reported the case to the police, and that the school did not undertake the necessary mechanisms, but that they had to do everything themselves - to the police, to medical examinations, and to the Center for Social Work.
The school claims otherwise
The school in the vicinity of Mali Crnić, where the girl suffered abuse for months, issued a statement in which they stated that, after learning about the incident, "they took all the steps provided for in the Rulebook, they informed all actors and competent institutions."
"Educational and disciplinary measures were imposed on the students for whom responsibility was determined because of the committed act and serious violation of student obligations." With them, educational work and certain measures of socially useful and humanitarian work have been strengthened, while a protection plan has been drawn up for the student who suffered violence and support measures have been determined", the announcement reads.
Rulebook for the prevention and prevention of violence
It has been in effect in schools in Serbia since the beginning of the year Rulebook for the prevention and prevention of violence. The formation of teams for crisis situations and the suspension of violent students are foreseen.
In addition to the new rulebook, by-laws accompanying the amended Law on Education were adopted.
Along with the introduction of suspension for students who commit violence, there are also changes in the assessment of governance. Instead of the fifth grade, from now on they will enter the average from the second.
Family lawyer: It is only possible to initiate civil proceedings
"Minors cannot be held criminally responsible." Everything depends on the Center for Social Work, if it were established that the parents have neglected parental rights, criminal proceedings could possibly be initiated against the parents. In this situation, what is certain is that, on behalf of the family, I will initiate legal proceedings against the parents of the minor perpetrators and against the school, because I believe that it had huge failures," said the legal representative of the family, Miodrag Tadić, writes N1.
And while the school claims that a protection plan has been drawn up and support measures have been established for the student who suffered violence, the support in Prague looks like this.
"So he was supposed to have classes at home or online, nothing was done." How can he come back, to sit with those criminals, how can I say it differently, to sit in the same pews", asks the father of the abused girl.
The Protector of Citizens initiated proceedings
On Friday, the Protector of Citizens launched, on his own initiative, the procedure to assess the legality and regularity of the work of the Elementary School "Đura Jakšić" in the village of Toponica near Mali Crnić due to media allegations that an eleven-year-old student of that school suffered months of peer violence.
The media previously reported that a medical examination revealed that the student from Toponica had injuries on her body and that her parents contacted the school.
The Protector announced that she simultaneously initiated the procedure to control the work of the Center for Social Work Malo Crnića, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and those bodies have a deadline of 15 days to submit reports on the activities undertaken to the Protector of Citizens.
Protector Zoran Pašalić indicated that violence in schools is not rare and that there is more of it than statistics show, and "everything goes in favor of the fact that the situation is alarming and that we must no longer leave things to chance".
"That's why I will ask the relevant ministries to supplement and amend the existing regulations and harmonize them with the real state of affairs, in order to prevent violence among children," Pašalić said in a written statement.
Violence among young people: Half of the surveyed girls have experienced it
Research on violence among young people in Belgrade, conducted on a sample of young girls from various primary and secondary schools in Belgrade, showed that almost half of the surveyed girls (47,6 percent) confirm that they have experienced some form of violence.
Analysis of data by age shows a significant increase in violence after the age of 15, with a peak of 85 percent in the 19-year-old age group. This indicates a serious problem of violence among young people in the researched sample.
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