An 11-year-old boy was sexually assaulted with a broom by several classmates at a school in Vimioso, in northeastern Portugal, police and municipal sources confirmed to EFE.
The Parish Board – a municipal body – of Vimioso reported, in a statement sent to EFE, that the attack occurred on Friday, January 19, when a student from the local School Group was “sodomized by several classmates.” The attack would have occurred in the presence of center workers, “who did nothing,” according to the Board.
A source from the National Republican Guard (GNR) explained to EFE that it is being investigated whether there were actually any workers present when the attack occurred, of which this police force learned three days later, through the health center they went to. the boy.
The GNR did not confirm the number of attackers but announced that several have already been identified and the case is under investigation. According to local media, the acts were committed by eight students, between 13 and 16 years old.
The case was referred to the Judicial Police, responsible for the investigation of this type of crimes, and to the judicial authorities.
The Parish Board also reported that in the same school there are “constant attacks carried out by some students” and that another student was “forced” by several classmates into “intimate contacts.”
“There is a climate of terror, since the school does not offer safety conditions and renounces its duty to ensure them,” denounced the municipal body, which stated that there are children who refuse to go to school out of fear.
