Student, 9 Years Old, Suspended For Sexual Harassment, Calling Teacher 'Cute' (VIDEO)

After a substitute teacher overheard 9-year-old Emanyea tell another student a teacher was 'cute,' school officials put him on two-day suspension for sexual harassment, WSOC TV reported.

The boy's mother, Chiquita Lockett, told the station she doesn't agree with the punishment.

"It's not like he went up to the woman and tried to grab her or touch her in a sexual way," Lockett told WSOC TV. "So why would he be suspended for two days?"

The school's code of conduct doesn't list sexual harassment, but does mention possession of any gun, rifle, pistol, firearm, prohibited substance or assault of a school employee as grounds for long-term suspension.

The incident comes after a 7-year-old Boston 1st-grader faces an investigation for sexual harassment after he allegedly struck another boy in the groin, the Boston Globe reported.

The boy's mother Tasha Lynch, however, says her child was simply defending himself, and that the boy he struck had choked him in a previous incident.

“I think my kid was right to fight back,’’ Lynch told the Globe. “He wasn’t doing anything except protecting himself.’’

Boston public schools spokesman Matthew Wilder told the publication that, although he could not give a comment, the school is carrying out an investigation to see who, if anyone, should be punished.

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Comments

[Not Impressed Viewer]

02:54 AM on 05/06/2012

It just goes to show how different each school sees a problem. My daughter was threatened TWICE by same boy. Said he was going to bring a gun to school and shoot her and others. He was always in trouble and was being given in school detention. School gave in school detention to boy on this occasion for such an intense threat (school in principals offfice for this offence on both occasions). They apparently spoke to boys parents but because of confidentiallity, they could not discuss with us the girls parents what if anything had been done to protect my daughter and rest of school. Basically do not know if anything was done by school Contacted school district by letter, received no response. I told the principal that this boy was going to go through all of his schooling with my daughter and that this boy would likely be someone that someday was on news for having done a mass shooting somewhere, and that that would then be on his shoulders as all the warning sign were there and he did nothing about it. Turns out that the boy was on medication for ADHD and had NOT taken his medication on these two occasions, thus giving the OK to his threats. His parents by the way threatened to sue school district if they expelled their son and this is the hold they had over the school to keep him there!!!!

[Megan Anderssen]

07:14 PM on 01/07/2012

This is why everyone hates substitute teachers. Tattle-telling busybody!

[unitron]

02:52 PM on 12/20/2011

Seems there was a little more to it.

http://www.wsoctv.com/download/2011/1205/29926822.pdf

[wireslim]

09:15 AM on 12/20/2011

Remember Emmett Till? Mr. Till lost his life just for whistling at a woman. Fortunately, we do not have to witness that kind of justice in today's age. At least, we hope not.

[CelebP]

03:01 AM on 12/20/2011

wow that's crazy! As a sub. teacher I've been asked such things as being someones prom date and being a tennaged boys sugar momma. The poor kid didn't deserve that suspension.

[robXdion]

02:44 AM on 12/20/2011

Can someone explain what seems to be a consistent female mentality that giving a compliment is offensive? Or receiving a compliment is tantamount to being sexually propositioned? It reeks of serious self-esteem issues and IMHO has a lot to do with the breakdown in healthy relationships.

If and when confident women do give men compliments (without expecting men to have ESP or without a pack of GFs around for support) there's always the nervous preamble, "I don't mean to be rude/offensive/. . . but you . . ." et al. It's annoying throwback to 8th grade socialization and this episode is more of the same. This teacher needs a serious psychotherapist to work out these issues.

[hsteacher]

09:44 PM on 12/09/2011

All the evidence in this article is based on information from the child and his mother. Sometimes, elementary children do not tell the whole story, and sometimes moms are too emotionally involved. Not a balanced article, so there is now way to comment or pass judgment until all the evidence is disclosed.

[TheFlowerChild]

08:53 PM on 12/09/2011

Well first this happened in North Carolina that should be your first clue. Second this is almost like another Emmett Till story. It's okay for fully grown adult Caucasian women to have sex with their 13 year old students in the USA but they call "Cute" sexual harassment from a 9 year old to an adult? I mean what happened to their common sense oops it's North Carolina and the horrible matter is that this "sexual harassment" will be on his record throughout his entire school years and may affect his eligibility to enter college and so on this is completely wrong.

[Damaven]

09:53 AM on 12/10/2011

Insight, you got it.

[wireslim]

09:16 AM on 12/20/2011

I just posted a similar comment. Great insight and analysis.

[Robert Secrist]

10:06 AM on 12/09/2011

Sexual harassment is of a child BY AN ADULT, not the other way around. Besides, "cute" is hardly a fighting word. What sort of "harassment" does its use amount to?

[Richsifu]

08:50 AM on 12/09/2011

That is why you have ridiculous traffic laws, codes, statutes and other penal law and the like, which is NOT supposed to exist at ALL in a Constitutional republic such as the United States! Due to various sleights of hand perpetrated by crafty lawyers beginning in 1852, a change from the common law over to maritime law took place. This change allowed the courts to now take control of all commerce on land as it does on the seas. Because we are under maritime law, humans themselves are now considered "a vessel on the seas". This gave the government the right to ticket, tax and even deny people the right to a trial by jury and due process, effectively bypassing our guaranteed constitutional rights.

Why the U.S. Government continually ignores the Constitution
http://www.naturalnews.com/033608_government_Constitution.html

How the government uses deception and the law to enslave people
http://www.naturalnews.com/031673_government_deception.html#ixzz1bx257Fbu

Naomi Wolf Arrested at OWS Event Under 'Color of Law' 1/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXrinQyD3y8

[Terita Hicks]

03:36 PM on 12/16/2011

Close but no cigar. It is not maritime law. It is common law verses old British law. The United States of America was formed in 1776. The first American trail was held in Boston by John Adams. He defended a British solider's right to shoot Cristopher Attucks... today we know this event to be the shot heard around the world and the beginning of our Revolutionary War. Due to the fact that laws never are taken off the legal books... we as society choose what laws we might practice and accept. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson is credit with the ideas of American Justice and legal system. So, lawyers within the United States are trusted to never practice laws that might hurt our constitution and is suppose to use common sense when practicing law. So British law which is the letter of law is suppose to be tempered with the American idea of good common sense and acts of good faith. We have reverted back to presecuting people under the "letter of the law". Our lawyers need not practice good ethics with good common sense and act of good faith. Krafty lawyers will find laws they understand and know to be unconstitutional upon our books and will use them because they understand the person they are prosecuting don't have the real ability to take it to the supreme court.

[Richsifu]

08:17 PM on 12/16/2011

It's the "letter" of the law because ALL law is Maritime law now that has replaced the common laws based on the Magna Carta that you mentioned IE British law.

It's all commercial/corporate contracts in which, through various UN-revealed contracts you are compelled to obey, thus bringing you via contract into forced obedience to the strict letter of the law.

1938 was the year of the Erie Railroad v. Tompkins case of the Supreme Court. It was also the year the courts claim they blended Law with Equity. A man had sued the Erie railroad for damages when he was struck by a board sticking out of a boxcar as he walked along beside the tracks. The district court had decided on the basis of Commercial (Negotiable Instruments) Law: that this man was not under any contract with the Erie Railroad, and therefore he had no standing to sue the company. Under the Common Law, he was damaged and he would have had the right to sue. This overturned a standing decision of over one hundred years. Swift v. Tyson in 1840 and the decision of the supreme Court was that in any case of this type, the court would judge the case on the Common Law of the state where the incident occurred--in this PA. But in the Erie Railroad case, the supreme Court ruled that all federal cases will be judged under the Negotiable Instruments Law. Here we find the blending of Law with Equity.

[Richsifu]

08:20 PM on 12/16/2011

"By 1938 the gradual merger procedurally between law and equity actions (1 court has jurisdiction over ALL legal matters) was recognized. The nation was bankrupt and was owned by its creditors (the international bankers) who now owned everything -- the Congress, the Executive, the courts, all the States, their legislatures and executives, the land, and all the people. Everything was mortgaged in the national debt. We had gone from being sovereigns over government to subjects under government, through the use of negotiable instruments to discharge our debts with limited liability, instead of paying our debts at common law with gold or silver coin. (uslawbooks.com/books/freeman_common_law.htm)

The Constitution only allows for TWO kinds of law, Common law and Admiralty/Maritime law. Maritime law is the law of commerce on the high seas during a time of peace, Admiralty law is the law of commerce on the high seas during a time of war or emergency

Due to various sleights of hand perpetrated by crafty lawyers beginning in 1852, a change from the common law over to maritime law took place. This change allowed the courts to now take control of all commerce on land as it does on the seas. Because we are under maritime law, humans themselves are now considered "a vessel on the seas." This gave the government the right to ticket, tax and even deny people the right to a trial by jury and due process, effectively bypassing our guaranteed constitutional rights.

[Terita Hicks]

04:31 PM on 12/16/2011

Many citizens of today find themselves being a subject of the law rather then comming to court to defend their right to have the protection of the law. What's the difference in lay man's terms? This little boy might have by the letter of law committed sexual harrasment. How he intended the comment is a legal argument and can be subject to legal reason to act. Common sense is the little boy is nine years old. It is more than likely something wrong with the adult(s) who have made this statement such a serious issue. I might personally suspect that an adult may be coveing up or acting as a child molester/abuser to have such a view point regarding a nine year old child's statement. Any healthy minded adult would feel this way I think. The adult has committed no outward or openly wrong act. So everyone with regard to the adult is only subject to comment and feelings, so therefore the adults in this situation are not subject to legal argument. Thomas Jefferson theory of law is no one is innocent. So, therefore we are suppose to be innocent of an accusation until there is self-evidence proving a person guility. So the prosector only have to prove the little boy said his teacher is cute and then prove the little boys lack of innocents to the teacher feelings of sexual harrassed. It doesn't matter the child's level of understanding regarding the issue.

[Richsifu]

08:50 AM on 12/09/2011

This is what happens when you have corporate rules masquerading as laws of the land. This is where ALL your penal petty laws come from, including all your traffic "laws" and such. All cities, towns, states and the Feds are incorporated under the United State INC. That is why Police officers do not enforce the law, the are armed corporate security guards that enforce Policies, NOT law. That's why cops are called PolicY(E) officers, because they enforce POLICE-IES, NOT the common laws of the Continental United States. This is why local towns have passed all of these RIDICULOUS laws like this, because THIS is how tyranny start incrementally over time. This has been going on since the end of the Civil War and it's the exact OPPOSITE of freedom.. Absolutely DISGUSTING!! but there is much more to come, sorry to say!

This is the same idea. This is why every little thing that someone does, especially men or boys, is now considered a crime. This feminization of society has turned everyone into wimps and made everyone hyper-sensitive to everything, especially women who think the world of made up of attractive clothing, polite conversation, proper grammar and correct opinions. There is NO common sense anymore and everything is all about some pathetic petty rule, code or so called law.

[Richsifu]

08:49 AM on 12/09/2011

They should FIRE the MORONIC FEMINIST BRAINWASHED substitute teacher for being unqualified to teach due to her being too stupid!..and for breaking the 4th amendment right to privacy of the boy himself.

This is what happens when you are a 14th amendment slave, which has superseded the guaranteed rights of the Constitution and you are only given "privileges and immunities" and not RIGHTS...IF you agree that you are a 14th amendment SLAVE instead of a free sovereign/king!

Laws today are designed to ENSLAVE the people and Prosper the Rich!!

When you hear the term "LAW ENFORCEMENT" you should immediately think to yourself.. yeah.. what LAWS are they REALLY enforcing?? That is why you have ridiculous traffic laws, codes, statutes and other penal law and the like, which is NOT supposed to exist at ALL in a Constitutional republic such as the United States!

They're enforcing Maritime Corporate/commercial/Contract law.. NOT the laws of the US Constitution at all!

[notsonaive]

08:32 PM on 12/08/2011

I still say Merry Christmas,not happy holidays,since 1929.

[JT16682]

08:28 PM on 12/08/2011

Boy! Never thought our society can become so radicalized like the Talibans!

[tploomis]

07:06 PM on 12/08/2011

That's what best friends are for: sharing the thoughts and feelings that you can't otherwise express.