As I wrote recently: Why Would You Trust Your Toddler to Strangers? It’s not just the lie that universal childcare, practically from birth, is somehow ‘better’ for parents or children. It’s not just being gaslit into a grotesque Marxist social experiment that no human society outside the worst totalitarian regimes of the 20th century has ever foisted on its youngest children.
It’s the ever-increasing reports of shocking abuse at childcare centres: up to and including every parents’ worse nightmare.
In 2023, Muhammad Ali was convicted of indecently touching a four-year-old boy and sentenced to 18 months in prison. He is due for release soon. According to the testimony of the boy, Ali “was doing that to some of the other boys”.
Of course, child abuse is sadly not confined to childcare centres. But, where parents can at least potentially suspect enough about creepy Uncle Ernie to never leave him alone with the kids, in childcare they’re entrusting their precious children to complete strangers. People they know nothing about. But employees are vetted, you say? Court documents revealed that Ali was unemployed twice due to drug use before getting the childcare job.
Now, though, an even more shocking story of abuse in childcare has emerged: this time, it’s child-on-child abuse.
Education authorities are investigating shock allegations that a four year old suffered injuries consistent with a sexual assault by another four year old during playtime at a Queensland childcare centre.
The explosive incident has blown up the lives of his parents who claim their son came home with a serious injury which emergency doctors diagnosed as an anal tear and sexual assault.
How does this even happen? How does a child even know how to force anal rape on another child? Especially given that the children involved were apparently under five?
Queensland Police confirmed they are aware of an alleged incident involving two four year olds.
“While police cannot confirm whether any offence has occurred, there is no criminality in this matter due to the children being under the age of criminal responsibility. As such, there will be no further involvement by QPS,” a police spokesman said […]
Police made preliminary investigations but due to the young age of the children involved the matter is now in the hands of the Early Childhood Regulatory Authority (RA).
Well, Queensland Police would surely want to look further than just the offending child? Where, after all, does a four-year-old learn such horrifying behaviour. Simply passing the buck to an industry watchdog seems an appalling incidence of kicking the can down the road and hoping it all just goes away.
Which the childcare centre involved clearly wishes would happen.
“My wife was informed of an incident when she went to pick him up but it was portrayed as normal inquisitive touching by small children but in what world is a 2cms tear of the rectum normal,” he claimed.
“My child was penetrated and the centre incident report says he was found half naked in the outdoor play area. Why were the kids left unsupervised? The kids were also on video but we have not been able to watch it – yet it has been shared with staff […]
The manager of the centre told the Courier-Mail that there is no evidence that there was a sexual assault of any child at the centre at any time.
Apart from, y’know, the blood everywhere on his backside.
Oh, that… oh, happens all the time, y’know. Kids, huh?
The Courier-Mail has viewed a previous incident report lodged by a different mother complaining about the lack of supervision in kids aged two to five and had concerns of inter-peer touching.
The distraught parents of the injured boy claim they were first told by centre staff that their child had been ‘pressured’ into an interaction with another child captured on CCTV and they claim centre staff stated the children were ‘playing around’ and their son was a ‘willing participant’.
His mum and dad only became aware of the seriousness of the incident when they took the child home and found he was not wearing his underpants and was wearing his spare shorts that were bloodied.
They took him to the emergency department the next day. On his admission form the diagnosis states an “anal tear and sexual assault” […]
“The most disappointing thing is that the centre has not responded to any queries or even checked to see how this incident has impacted our family.”
Presumably they’re not still sending their son to the same centre. Or any centre. What career is worth more than knowing your kids are safe?
