Trigger warning Child Sexual Assault
My daughter was assaulted in her daycare facility last year. We filed a report through the city hall at the Child Life and Welfare Department, where we gave a 2 hour long interview with translators to several officials. The case was not picked up by the local police department due to her young age.
I have emailed several times since then but no one has replied. Are we allowed to ask for an update? Is there anything else we can do?
Update: Wow the replies have been overwhelming in a positive way. We’ve all felt really alone dealing with this. To answer some questions:
We were in Okinawa prefecture working on base. The daycare was off base. We filed the report through the base police and the family advocacy. It was handed to OSI who said they would submit our interview to police. They spent time investigating our home as part of protocol then called and said they dropped the case due to Okinawa City Police refusing to investigate.
I was told I could confront the school. Which I did and recorded (not sure if that’s legal but…) I was unhappy to be told she was being held by multiple admin in the bathroom and no one was communicating issues. They called her a difficult child.
I hired a translator and called multiple departments. We were referred to the daycare’s designated city hall department. The interview was held there. They had been communicating with me via email but stopped. I also reached out to the police through the US Embassy email listed but haven’t heard back. My child’s disclosure was March of last year.
Her age was huge factor in them not taking the case think. At the time she was 3. I had recorded our conversations talking. She demonstrated a clear sexual act that is adult in nature and that her “big friend” had taught her this. Her pediatrician and the ER said she had an internal yeast infection. She has a year’s worth of records of talking in therapy and is completely verbal now. I also have the school recording.
by SeriesOk5120