Originally Posted by mac60:
Are just not very believeable. The thread on a just turned 2 yr old telling a 15 mo old to touch his penis......hmm, and the thread on the teacher making a child eat "dirt" which was cocoa.....hmm again. Sorry, but just not very believeable stories to me.
I can assure you that the "dirt/cocoa" story was absolutely true. As you can obviously see it was my first post, but the incident so disturbed me that I turned to strangers for advice, which turns out was my mistake, seeing as how I have been accused of a) making the story up and b) turning a blind eye to abuse.
I told the teacher at the time that what she was doing was against state licensing regulations (she just shrugged and said "whatever") and took the little boy to the bathroom to wash his face and gave him a cup of water.
Someone pointed out that I was a mandated reporter, which hadn't crossed my mind, so I got some good advice, but I don't think I'll be coming back if this is how honest newcomers are treated.