A “hyperactive” nine-year-old Oklahoma boy was given a victim protection order by the school sheriff for “stalking” his classmate.
Lavonne McCoy, 55, says her grandson received a VPO, signed by Shawnee Judge Tracy McDaniel, at school Wednesday morning.
“I’m surprised because he’s nine years old and the sheriffs take care of him at school,” McCoy said. KFOR.
Pottawatomi County Undersheriff Travis Dinwiddie said this is the first time he has had to issue a VPO to a nine-year-old at school, and the task took him by surprise. He said he made sure his parents were notified before it happened.
‘We delivered it there because that was the address that the court put in the petition… The courts order it. And so we have to comply with that as officers of the court,” Dinwiddie said.
A “hyperactive” nine-year-old Oklahoma boy was given a victim protection order by the school sheriff for “stalking” his classmate.
Lavonne McCoy, 55, says her grandson received a VPO, signed by Shawnee Judge Tracy McDaniel, at school Wednesday morning.
The accuser is a classmate of hers whose mother, Elsy Goggin, submitted a handwritten account of the “harassment” and “harassment” her daughter has suffered.
The accuser is a classmate of hers whose mother, Elsy Goggin, submitted a handwritten account of the “harassment” and “harassment” her daughter has suffered.
Goggin, 37, detailed bullying that has been going on for months inside and outside of school. She says the boy “has had an unknown reason for being harmful to my daughter.” The worried mother claims she has notified the school several times.
According to Goggin’s handwritten letter, the boy makes cruel comments to the girl about her wheelchair-bound husband, even “telling her she should break his legs.”
She claims that the boy called her daughter stupid and constantly subjects her to bad words.
Goggin said bullying also takes place outside the classroom, including one case in the park when, after an egg hunt, the nine-year-old boy hid and yelled at the girl, which the concerned mother claims she has evidence of. on video.
McCoy responded to Goggin’s claims, saying he has seen them “play” together.
“I’ve seen her in the store and she always runs after him playing,” he says.
The boy’s grandmother doesn’t see why he gets in trouble for “being a boy.”
“He tries to hide because, you know, he’s nine years old… I’m not sure why he gets in trouble just for being a boy, because there’s nothing here that says any kind of abuse,” she said, referring to the VPO. .
Pottawatomi County Undersheriff Travis Dinwiddie said this is the first time he has had to issue a VPO to a nine-year-old at school, and the task took him by surprise. He said he made sure his parents were notified before it happened.
Goggin, 37, detailed bullying that has been going on for months inside and outside of school. She says the boy ‘has had an unknown reason for being harmful to my daughter’
According to Goggin’s handwritten letter, the boy makes cruel comments to the girl about her wheelchair-bound husband (pictured with Elsy Goggin and her daughter), including “telling her she should break his legs.”
McCoy says her grandson is “hyperactive” but not a bully and she worries these serious allegations will affect his future.
“No one touches each other, you know, or pulls each other’s hair or hits each other.” They are children being children, running and playing.
But Goggin maintains that he has to defend his daughter and says any other father would do the same.
“You have to understand that I am behind my daughter because I love her and I am going to protect her like any other father or mother,” Goggin said.
“I had to get to this point where I said, enough is enough.”
The nine-year-old returned home from school after receiving the legal document and is now waiting in limbo to see if he can return to school before the summer.
Horace Mann Elementary School Superintendent Dr. Aaron Espolt released a statement about the incident, saying “this VPO is primarily related to events that occurred off Shawnee Public Schools property.”
Horace Mann Elementary School Superintendent Dr. Aaron Espolt released a statement regarding the incident.
‘Earlier today, the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Department came to the campus of one of our elementary schools to serve a victim protection order on a student in the presence of the student’s family and school administrators.
‘This VPO is primarily related to events that occurred off of Shawnee Public Schools property. Out of respect for student privacy, I cannot share more information.
“What I can share is that we have protocols and procedures in place, and we thoroughly investigate and address any concerns that students and parents share with us.”