Panel set up to investigate school rape allegation
Kalasin Provincial Education Office has set up an investigation committee to uncover the truth behind allegations that three schoolboys raped a five-year-old girl in the school toilet.
The office said on Tuesday (September 15) that officials visited the school to meet students and their families and spoke with the director and teachers.
The school reportedly has 11 security cameras, but one is broken and there is no footage of the three boys, aged around 11, accosting the primary school student on August 31 as alleged.
The three boys have denied the allegation, but their parents want to move their children to other schools as they do not feel comfortable with the situation.
Meanwhile, police have said that the investigators are waiting to question the girl’s parents, who sought help from the Pavena Foundation for Children and Women, and will later examine the evidence before sending it to the Regional Medical Science Centre in Khon Kaen.