MOLEST ALLEGATIONS
Girl, 4, uses Teddy to touch doll's body
When mum asks distraught child to use toys to tell her what happened...
By Faith Teo
August 02, 2005, NP
FAMILY SAYS:
IN the end, it was Barbie doll and a teddy bear who told the horrible story for her.
After all, she is only 4.
She could not put it in words until her mum got her to act it out with her toys.
It was enough to make her mother file a police report. Jane (not her real name) was allegedly molested by her school bus driver. She showed how Teddy touched Barbie, saying she was Barbie and the bus driver Teddy, said her mother.
The man allegedly molested Jane three times in five days, starting on the very first day she took the bus. The incidents allegedly happened at a multi-storey carpark.
Police are investigating the allegations.
Jane's mother claimed that she first noticed something was wrong on 15 Jul, when her daughter complained of pain in her private parts.
She said Jane constantly asked to be washed there.
That was the first day Jane took the bus from her childcare centre. Earlier, her mum used to drive her there and back. But a job change meant she could not make it to the centre in time in the evenings.
'I approached the school for help, and they told me about this driver,' said the mother, a sales executive.
On three occasions, Jane was the last to alight, said her grandmother.
'She finishes school at about 4.30pm, and there are only a few children on board, so I expected her to be home by about 5pm. But it was already about 5.30pm when the bus arrived on the first day.
'The driver... said that he was unfamiliar with our area. Jane was just sitting very quietly at the back of the bus. When she got home, she was very aggressive,' claimed the grandmother.
'She shouted at her grandfather, and later when her father came to take her home, she shouted at him as well.'
The grandmother noticed that there was no attendant on the bus.
The following Monday, Jane did not want to go to school. Her tantrums lasted till Thursday when she took the bus home for the last time.
For it was on that day her mum coaxed out her story.
Jane cried and begged her not to ask questions, she said.
So she asked Jane to show what happened using the toys.
'She showed me how Barbie was sitting at the back of the bus, and Teddy moved to the passenger area.
'Teddy said 'please stand up' in Mandarin, and she used teddy's paw to touch Barbie's face and other parts of her body.'
Jane now cries whenever she has to enter a multi-storey carpark, said her mother. 'I visualise her fear... what could she do? She was helpless.'
hope police really investigate and get the driver and then hopefully released him with his particulars and photo leak to the press.
SO that all people can give him a ride to hell.
police cannot charge a mob , right.
save taxpayer money.
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