An 11-year-old boy in Portugal was sexually assaulted by several classmates and in the presence of school personnel

an 11 year old boy has been sexually assaulted with a broom by several classmates at a school in Vimioso, north-east of portugalPolice and municipal sources have confirmed this to Efe.

The Freguesia Board, the municipal body of Vimioso, said in a statement sent to Efe that the attack occurred last Friday, January 19, when a student from a local school group “Many associates had unnatural sex with him”,

According to the board, the attack may have occurred in the presence of center workers, “who did nothing”.

a source of Republican National Guard (GNR) He told EFE that an investigation was underway to see whether any workers were indeed present at the time of the attack, which the police force learned of three days later through the health center where the child had gone.

GNR The number of attackers has not been confirmed. But it has been announced that several have already been identified and the case is under investigation.

According to local media, This act was committed by eight studentsBetween 13 and 16 years.

The case has been referred to the judicial police and judicial officers responsible for investigating these types of crimes.

The parish board also condemned that at the same school “there are persistent attacks by some students” and that another student was “forced” into “intimate contacts” by several classmates.

“There is a climate of terror, because the school does not provide safe conditions and abandons its duty to ensure them,” the municipal body condemned, adding that there are children who refuse to go to school out of fear. Are.