Middle School Students Caught Having Sex in Class

WARREN TOWNSHIP, IN -- A middle school in suburban Indianapolis is gaining some unwanted national attention.

Two sixth graders were caught having sex in class last November and parents didn't find out until recently.

The report is raising questions nationwide. In fact, nearly a half million viewers heard about the incident from the Drudge Report online. Parents in the district are outraged.

"It just upsets me because it sounds like they're trying to make excuses. It doesn't matter to me how long it was you know 30-seconds -- 30-minutes it's too long. I want to know where the teacher was and how this was able to happen."

"How could it have been kept quiet for that long and still to us kind of being swept under the rug."

Associate School Superintendent Dr. Jeff Swennson confirmed -- the incident happened almost 4-months ago in an industrial arts lab with the teacher present.

He told 13 Investigates another child acted as a "look out" -- disputing an insider's claim that as many as 10-children may have witnessed the act.

And more than two parents who called the district say they were told the incident only lasted 30-seconds.

"The 30-seconds that's not even a consideration -- it's the fact that something occurred."

Kevin McDowell is the attorney for the Indiana Department of Education.

He says districts often consult him on serious legal matters -- but says this is the first he's heard of the Raymond Park incident.

Schools are -not- required to report such incidents to the state.

He won't criticize Warren Township -- but doesn't agree with the district's approach.

"I can't imagine any administrator worth her salt or his salt that wouldn't address a situation like this because it is a serious matter. I really can't answer for them. I'm sure they have their reasons why. You know is that the way I would address it? Well, my first blush reaction is you know I would have handled it differently." "I just want to be very confident that they're not witnessing and they're being protected -- they're not witnessing things that are harmful to them emotionally -- physically -- whatever."

"This doesn't pose any danger to the other students even if they did see it.

"I want to be clear on what you're saying here."

"So they may have witnessed this -- while this is an activity you certainly don't see in a school and it's something that would be certainly unusual -- I don't feel -- I don't know where it posed any immediate danger to those children who saw it."

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