Parents in a panic: in Kiev schools thriving racket

The police has registered a case of extortion high school.

The police of Kiev, was this year’s first case of extortion among schoolchildren. The eighth-grader of one of the prestigious schools in the Sviatoshynsky district has put “on the counter,” sixth-grader. Sums which are extorted by a senior of several thousand hryvnia, and for refusing to give money he was threatened with death. The police said that cases of extortion by older pupils towards the younger was before, but according to the degree of audacity this first. However, such cases rarely reach court.

In the style of dashing-90

As told by the parents of one of the classmates of the affected student, racketeer-the eighth-grader for several months extorted that by 200-300 UAH, and then the appetite of the young man grew, and the bill went to the thousands. In the end, amounts up to 5 thousand UAH, and in case of refusal, the high school student threatened with punishment. The sixth-grader was forced to give all their pocket money, and large sums to steal from parents. On the surface this story surfaced when his parents once again missed a significant amount and demanded from the son of explanations. Then he confessed to everything. The parents appealed to the police.

“Before the last bell at school was the police interviewed the children. The teacher did not explain anything, and the children discussed among themselves that law enforcement officers called the parents of a sixth-grader,” — say the parents of one of the pupils of the school. As it turned out, all the money young racketeer spent on gifts and flowers to his girlfriend, and teachers described him as a calm and balanced young man. “Many parents began to stand up for the blackguard, so as not to ruin his life, and beg to withdraw the statement from the police. While it is known that the parents of the girls who transferred to another school,” say the parents of one of pupils.

The headmaster in turn refused to comment on the situation “news”, saying only: “You will understand.”

The police in Kiev “news” confirmed that the statement of the mother of sixth-grader on the court after her son was included in the unified accounting statements and reports. Now the investigator shall take the decision on initiation of criminal proceedings. During the inspection the investigators Svyatoshinsky police found out that the blackmailer was not alone. Their parents promised to return all funds that the seniors have lured a younger boy, but not immediately, because their families need the money. Similar story on the forum describe the parents of the pupil of one of schools on the Vineyard. But there was much less, and the offender after some time returned the money.

The Commissioner for children’s rights Mykola Kuleba recognized that cases of extortion among schoolchildren happen quite often, but on the surface they come up rarely. “Schools such facts are carefully concealed, so officially we can’t say that extortion is widespread. But the fact that 50% of children in schools complain of bullying — it’s a fact,” — said Kuleba. In his opinion, this is lack of family upbringing and the fact that the educational influence of the school decreased significantly. “Now the psychologist has no right to invite the student to talk, if there is no written consent of both parents. It needs to be changed, teenagers need to work,” — said Kuleba.

Instead of the court — negotiations and forgiveness

The police say that in the case of conflicts prefer to solve problems through negotiations. “Now we try to implement popular in many European countries the technique of mediation — when young people after work with a psychologist and ask each other for forgiveness. It’s better than to bring such cases to court,” — said the head of the Department of juvenile prevention police Larissa Tooth.

According to her, fighters or hard-core troublemakers put on the school account, and have “particularly distinguished themselves” can take account of “child police”. But for this we need a good reason. On the account in police, according to Larisa Tooth, put children who have committed two or more administrative offenses, children with a diagnosis of drug addiction, alcoholism, previous convictions, etc. In the future, the teenager will take a year to mend. Otherwise, the police will leave him “in training” for another year. Now on the account in police of Kiev there are 117 children.

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