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5th-graders accused of sex in school

By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer Tue Apr 3, 8:52 PM ET

NEW ORLEANS - Five fifth-grade students face criminal charges after authorities said four of them had sex in front of other students in an unsupervised classroom and kept a classmate posted as a lookout for teachers.

The students were arrested Tuesday at the Spearsville school in rural north Louisiana, authorities said. Two 11-year-old girls, a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year old boy were charged with obscenity, a felony. An 11-year-old boy, the alleged guard, was charged with being an accessory.

"After 44 years of doing this work, nothing shocks me anymore," said Union Parish Sheriff Bob Buckley. "But this comes pretty close."

Authorities said the incident happened March 27 at the school, which houses students from kindergarten through 12th grade. A high school teacher normally watches the fifth-grade class at the time, but went to an assembly for older students and the class was inadvertently left unattended, Buckley said.

The class, which had around 10 other students, was alone for about 15 minutes, he said.

"When no teacher showed up, the four began to have sex in the classroom with the other elementary students in the classroom with them," he said.

It took a day for authorities to find out about the incident. A student who had been in the class told a high school student about it the next day, Buckley said. The student told a teacher, and school officials notified the sheriff's office. Detectives began questioning students Thursday.

School officials did not return calls seeking comment.

The students, who were not identified because of their age, were released to their parents after their arrests, Buckley said. They will next be arraigned in juvenile court. A message seeking comment from the district attorney was not immediately returned.

Buckley said it was unclear what the children could face in penalties.

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I heard about this last week... The girls in school when I was in school were so boring...


Seriously though... who even thinks like this in the fifth grade?

at first i laughed my ... off when i read the title of the article in the newspaper and i thought to myself this has to be a joke or there is a twist somewhere in the middle. Nope, when i read it i was more confused then shocked. Like Tad above....who even thinks like this in the fifth grade?!
BTW i think lasting 15mins for a fifth grader is a pretty good time to set :P
But honestly WTF!

A kid who is still in the 5th grade at age 12 or 13?

And probably one who has witnessed or participated in sex at home.

I think by what Tad meant was that the first thing out of a fifth graders mouth when a teacher doesnt arrive shouldnt be "hey lets all have sex" Yes a fifth grader might think about it at home or whatever, but why would they think about having sex during school, and doing it to make matters worse

I don't think much happened considering that the teachers didn't even know untill the next day when an older student had told them. I'm not sure this is even possible for someone that young but I'm not really intrested in finding out.

I'm guessing they were just acting like they were having sex as a joke. I wonder how exactly the police will go about handling this.

Yeah that part was mainly as a joke, wasn't serious towards it. And yeah, im not really interested in finding out too

My girl delievered a baby from a 9 year old... It's possible.

I feel bad for the girl. 9 years old and she has to go through that...