Small Incident with foreigner students

beatrice33

Hi,

last evening there was a small incident in Bray seafront, where 2 thirteen year old girls were surrounded by spanish (could have been Italian) students and one of them touched one of the girl's bum and all laughed at them. The girl in question is my sister-in-law, and she felt quite upset about it.

I know is not a big deal but my mother-in-law would like to put a complain soemwhere but we dont know where. Basically we want someone to tell these kids that this behaviour is not acceptable, although i know is difficult since there are thousands of students in Bray at the moment and they all come with different agencies.
Any advice will be appreciated.

ciaran67

beatrice33 wrote: »

Hi,

last evening there was a small incident in Bray seafront, where 2 thirteen year old girls were surrounded by spanish (could have been Italian) students and one of them touched one of the girl's bum and all laughed at them. The girl in question is my sister-in-law, and she felt quite upset about it.

I know is not a big deal but my mother-in-law would like to put a complain soemwhere but we dont know where. Basically we want someone to tell these kids that this behaviour is not acceptable, although i know is difficult since there are thousands of students in Bray at the moment and they all come with different agencies.
Any advice will be appreciated.

There's an international school on the way down into Greystones. Maybe ring them and ask where to complain?

Raiser

Best of luck with it and please don't be initially discouraged by the stark unwillingness to engage which I assume you will meet - You may need to be mindful of our States poor past and present record in any and all related areas etc.

- We did after all breed, nurture and unleash the horrific Beast that is the HSE, living as it is on the Misery of others and serving only its own financial and careerist interests.

vasch_ro

try ATC language school on the Seafront beside espanade hotel

spurious

I wouldn't call a sexual assault on a thirteen year old 'not a big deal'.
The students who did that knew well it was not acceptable, hence their laughing. It wouldn't be the school I'd be contacting, it would be the guards.
Rattle their cages a bit for them.

Raiser

spurious wrote: »

I wouldn't call a sexual assault on a thirteen year old 'not a big deal'.
The students who did that knew well it was not acceptable, hence their laughing. It wouldn't be the school I'd be contacting, it would be the guards.
Rattle their cages a bit for them.

+1

13 year olds of any sex are a mess of insecurities and normal confidence issues even when in certain everyday situations or whatever, I have no problem believing that this could be upsetting on many different levels that they might not handle easily.

- The very fact that this issue is correctly and comprehensively addressed should go most of the way towards reassuring them in certain regards.

I'd assume that a couple of Squad Car visits to the Language Schools will make them attempt to deflect the bad press involved by perhaps revising whatever conduct guidelines they pass on to Students - Perhaps something in the order of sent home without a refund etc.

Annasopra

yeah talk to the guards about it

Tabnabs

A friend of mine had a similar random groping from school kids in a Dublin suburb a few years ago. She phoned the gards who were very sympathetic and they called into the school to talk to the class.

convert

I'd definitely go to the guards and make a formal complaint about the incident. You could also contact the language schools in the area informing them about the incident and that a formal complaint has been made to the guards. It might wake up the schools who organise these trips over here and maybe encourage them to ensure that their students behave themselves better when they're over here.

Son of Jack

That was very scary for those two girls. I hope they are o.k.
I think a gang of kids whether Irish or Spanish when abroad will do things that they think they can get away with. It may be that these are not the only girls they hassled that night. Better then to tell the guards, so that they are in the picture. Wouldn't you think that with all the people down on Bray Prom that two teenagers would be safe.

beatrice33

Thank you so much everyone for all the advice.

We are going to contact the garda and the language schools.
The two girls are fine, thank you for asking.

Nodster

You mean a whole week has passed and you still haven't done anything about it? Can't expect our uniformed guardians to pull rabbits out of hats, besides these student's might've gone home by now