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A group of about a dozen elementary school students were accused of sexually assaulting an 8 year old girl. Now I know that kids can be cruel and little boys definitely have a pack mentality when taunting someone. But SEXUAL ASSAULT? I dunno if biology has changed that much in the last two decades(an evolutionary leap, perhaps) but my equipment didn't work well enough at the age of 6 to sexually assault anyone. (Not that I'd have known how anyway.) Inappropriate behavior sure, but to term it sexual assault seems a misnomer.