Last week a 9-year-old fourth grade girl entered a stall in the Walnut Creek Elementary girls’ restroom. According to Genoa Township Detective Molly Welch, “When she went to pull down her pants, she looked down and there was an adult male who had his head under the stall and was looking at the 9-year-old.”

The girl was so frightened and embarrassed that she did not report the incident right away, however school surveillance videos confirm her report. Video shows a man dressed in black who walked past the front desk without signing in and headed directly to the bathroom. The videos indicate that the man was in the school on at least three different days. The time the girl signed out of class to go to the bathroom coincides with the time the man was seen on the video.

Prior to this incident all doors except the front door of the elementary were locked. Now the school is locking the front door also and admittance is by a buzzer/intercom system. Certainly all necessary security measures must be taken and we can all be thankful that this intruder was discovered before an innocent young girl was harmed.

What are our schools becoming? This sounds more like a prison facility than a school. Surveillance cameras, lockdowns, buzzers and intercoms. When I was in college I worked at a juvenile detention center as a security guard. This reminds me very much of one of my main duties there. I sat in a control center and inmates had to request various doors be buzzed open as they moved from the residential area to the dining area, gymnasium, or visitor room.

This incident occurred in the school district we lived in when we began homeschooling, a primarily middle-class, low-crime area. A general warning note was sent to parents after the incident was reported, but the note did not inform them that there had been an intruder in the school.

Bring your kids home!

Full report here…