OT: Lee County school calls cops after 12-year-olds kiss on playground

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These poor children are probably traumatized for life from an innocent kiss because of the lack of training and common sense from this school district. A call to their parents would have been more then enough.

Florida school calls cops after 12-year-olds kiss on playground

November 22, 201112:20PM

A SCHOOL administrator in Florida called the sheriff after a pair of consenting 12-year-olds shared a kiss on the playground.

Lee County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to Orange River Elementary School in Fort Myers, Florida, after two female students were debating over who liked a 12-year-old boy more. At that point, one of the girls walked over and kissed the boy -- leading an assistant principal to call authorities.

The administrator initially contacted the Florida Deptartment of Children and Families (DCF). However, DCF told the school that it should call local law enforcement.

"They called us and said they caught two children kissing on the playground," Sargeant Eller told FOX News Radio.

"The reality is it was probably something innocent between two kids on the playground."

Sgt Eller said the deputies took a report and documented the incident, but determined no crime had been committed.

"If it had been a crime at all it would have been a simple battery," Sgt Eller said. "The battery consists of the unwanted touching of one person to another."

"At this point, it doesn't look like we have anyone who was an unwilling participant in this," she said, referring to the playground smooch.

Sgt Eller said no one was arrested and she suspected the school was being overly cautious.

"In the past, they would have been reluctant to say anything," she said. "That reluctance is gone because they don't want to be the one that didn't say something at that point at which the behavior was starting."

Joe Donzelli, a spokesman for Lee County Public Schools, told the Naples News that school district employees are required to call DCF if they suspect abuse.

But Sgt Eller said school administrators never conveyed anything serious to the sheriff's department and they were only called to the school because they had a report "of two children kissing".