A 6-year-old boy has been
suspended from a Colorado school for kissing a girl on the cheek.
School officials in Canon
City are accusing Hunter Yelton of sexual harassment and they want it on his
school record.
The boy's mother tells
KRDO-TV her son was suspended once before for kissing the girl and had
disciplinary problems, but the girl did not object to being kissed. She told
the station that the two children like each other.
"They sent me to the
office, fair and square. I did something wrong and I feel sorry," Yelton
told the station.
A School District RE-1
official says the repeat offenses meet the school policy definition of sexual
harassment and they hope the tough standards will force the boy to change his
behavior.
Yelton's mother, Jennifer
Saunders, wants sexual harassment removed from his record.
"I'm going to stand
up and fight for him because that's not the case, that's not what happened at
all," she told the station.
The school district, for
its part, disagrees with Yelton's mother's opinion about the boy's behavior and
says kissing a girl at school is unacceptable, the station reported.
Sandy Wurtele, a child
psychologist, was critical about the district's decision to punish the boy over
the kiss.
"I don’t think a
6-year-old would understand what harassment is," Wurtele told KRDO.
"That has some longer-term implications."
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