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Is our screening adequate?

News that a man entrusted with the care of pupils at Mokgenene Primary School sexually assaulted the children isn't only heartbreaking but also disgusting! Children are innocent souls and tend to trust their guardians/parents to be their protectors who shield them against harm as well as being the best possible role models.

Sadly, we live in a society that seems to be losing its moral fibre by the day.

When parents take their children to a boarding school they do so to give them a brighter future, not to have some dirty paedophilic predator to prey on them. Sex orientation is a touchy subject and for young minds to be sexualised at a young age by a grown man perpetrating harm on them by cutting through their sphincter muscle to penetrate their anal canal. Anyone can just try and imagine the kind of pain that these vulnerable boys allegedly went through at the hands of the filthy man, who not only gets paid to look after the boys to ensure their safety, only for him to allegedly perpetrate on them. Perhaps our screening process is too weak to catch these weirdos before they actually join the school systems to harm children. They seem skilled at worming their way into workplaces where the vulnerable are and end up wreaking havoc not only on the lives of the children but also their colleagues. If a child at primary level experiences such trauma, the likelihood of that child associating school with pain is very high and most likely won' want anything to do with the classroom and its environs.

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