Six-year-old's sexual harassment claim dropped: 'Why we should take elementary school harassment seriously'

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'Hunter Yelton, the six-year-old boy who’s being portrayed as a “hopeless romantic” and “young Casanova” after his recent school suspension, will no longer have the offense of sexual harassment on his permanent record. Following negative press surrounding his two-day suspension from Lincoln School of Science and Technology in Colorado, the school reduced the offense on Hunter’s permanent record from “sexual harassment” to “misconduct” Thursday. Hunter’s seemingly innocuous crime? Kissing one of his classmates on the hand.

Jade Masters-Ownbey, the mother of the young girl Hunter kissed, felt his original punishment was appropriate. After all, this wasn’t the first time Hunter had been reprimanded for violating his school’s sexual harassment policy: he apparently had a history of pursuing this same girl, and had previously kissed her on the cheek. But Hunter’s mother, Jennifer Saunders, thought the school’s punishment was too harsh.

“This is taking it to an extreme that doesn’t need to be met with a six-year-old. Now my son is asking questions. ‘What is sex mommy?’ That should not ever be said, sex. Not in a sentence with a six-year-old,” Saunders said. Well, there’s your first clue as to why this kid might be acting out. Clearly, he’s curious about sex, and his mom would rather not talk about it.'