[TheBagman]

TorontoSun.com - Canada- Board use of psychic blasted

BARRIE -- The mother of an autistic girl says the public school board was "completely unprofessional" to formulate a theory that her daughter was being sexually abused based on a psychic's perception.

Barrie resident Colleen Leduc wants an apology from the Simcoe County District School Board, which called in the Children's Aid Society (CAS) to investigate.

According to the board, the case is still under investigation, although Leduc says it was closed.

Leduc immediately pulled her 11-year-old daughter, Victoria Nolet, out of Terry Fox Elementary School in north-end Barrie.

"I have trust issues now," Leduc said. "What are they going to concoct next week?"

Victoria has severe autism and is nonverbal.

Dr. Lindy Zaretsky, a school board superintendent whose portfolio includes special education, said the school was just following protocol, adding the board is bound by the same legislation (Child and Family Services Act) as the CAS when it comes to suspected neglect or sexual abuse.

"It is clear in all cases that this (information) must be reported," Zaretsky said.

The local CAS won't comment on specific investigations, but said the legislation stipulates that all cases of suspected abuse be reported "if there are reasonable grounds."

"The schools are our eyes and ears in the community," said Mary Ballantyne, executive director of the Simcoe County chapter. "They are with children more than anyone else in the community and are the first to spot a child who may be in need of our protection."

About 80% of the CAS's calls reporting abuse and neglect come from schools, she added.

But Leduc said information gleaned from a psychic shouldn't be the impetus for the board to launch a CAS investigation.

"First of all, what were they doing taking a psychic's word? Then they correlated that with (Victoria's) behaviour to design a theory," Leduc said.

The board stands by its decision, despite where the initial information came from. "It has not been board practice to use psychic readings," Zaretsky said.

On May 30, Leduc picked Victoria up from school, where she's enrolled in an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) class with several boys around the same age. When Leduc returned home, there was an urgent call asking her to return to the Livingstone Street East school.

Frightened, Leduc rushed back to the school. She and Victoria entered a room where they were met by the principal, the vice-principal and the teacher.

Leduc said they advised her that Victoria's educational assistant (EA) had visited a psychic, who said a youngster whose name started with "V" was being sexually abused by a man between 23 and 26 years old. Leduc was also handed a list of recent behaviours exhibited by her daughter.

School principal Brian Tremain -- who referred phone calls seeking comment to the board -- advised Leduc that the CAS had been contacted.

"That's when I got sick to my stomach," she said. "I was shocked the whole meeting."

[Gag]

WTF Canada?

[TheDriver]

Sorry gag. You have been abused.

[AnnonUSA]

LOL Dipshits!

[Gag]

The pussification of the Canadian schoolboard is insane nowadays.

I forget what it was I did in the 8th or 9th grade, but the school went nuts. I got in trouble for making fun of some kid or getting in a fight or something, and they school brought my parents into a meeting, and they had social services and police and the whole bit there.

Kids can't be kids anymore man, and it's all because of pussified schoolboard members.

I remember the vice principle I had in Jr. High was such a fruit, I'd love to scruff that guy.

I remember a year or tewo ago I was walking down the road puffing a j, him and his wife were walking by, and I blew the biggest cloud of marihuana smoke in his face I could. Gteed he was high.

[The_Egg]

wow cooooooooooooooooooool...

[TheDriver]

Originally Posted by Gag

The pussification of the Canadian schoolboard is insane nowadays.

I forget what it was I did in the 8th or 9th grade, but the school went nuts. I got in trouble for making fun of some kid or getting in a fight or something, and they school brought my parents into a meeting, and they had social services and police and the whole bit there.

Kids can't be kids anymore man, and it's all because of pussified schoolboard members.

I remember the vice principle I had in Jr. High was such a fruit, I'd love to scruff that guy.

I remember a year or tewo ago I was walking down the road puffing a j, him and his wife were walking by, and I blew the biggest cloud of marihuana smoke in his face I could. Gteed he was high.

Fakest story on MIIDAJ

[AnnonUSA]

Originally Posted by TheDriver

Fakest story on the Internet

FixT!

[TacoSusio]

canadian guidance counselor:

[daiseyduked]

lol

[dan, muthafucka!]

i have to hold my nose whenever i pass thru barrie because it permanently reeks of cow shit. and there ain't no farms around either

[Gag]

Originally Posted by TheDriver

Fakest story on MIIDAJ

What seems so fake about it?

[Ricky L.]

I'm not all that sure that she wasn't actually raped. It said that she was non-verbal. and there is a pic of her in that link. It probably did happen.