Chaos at Whittington as mum seeks escape

Hamish Heard
Chaotic scenes surrounded Whittington Primary School yesterday as police and media descended on the family home of a boy accused of terrorising staff and students.
Police interviewed the parents of the 11yearold boy at their home adjacent to the school after a call to investigate alleged death threats and harassment toward the family.
Schoolaged children performed BMX stunts for television news cameras on the road outside the school during class time as police spoke to the boy’s distraught parents inside their graffiticovered home.
The boy made headlines this week when the Melbourne media reported the school’s acting principal had locked pupils inside the Solar Drive school grounds because he and his friends were loitering nearby.
His mother said she wanted Department of Housing to find the family a house in the country to get her children away from a drug problem in the neighbourhood.
“They gave the Scott family in Shepparton a nice farm house,” she told the Independent yesterday.
“All I want is a farm house where I can bring my children up away from all of this crap.”
The mother claimed school staff and parents had demonised her son, who she said suffered a learning disability.
A 14yearold riding a mountain bike and wearing a hooded top copped a barrage of abuse from the boy’s father after the child admitted his mother had supplied the 11yearold with marijuana.
“You tell your mother if she ever gives my 11yearold boy a bong again she’s dead meat,” the father yelled at the 14yearold.
He told the Independent his family had been a victim of harassment and death threats from parents of children attending the primary school.
“They make up all this bulls—t and they blame (my son) for everything and all he’s doing is having a bit of fun.”
He admitted the school had expelled Adam for allegedly stealing a teacher’s wallet last year.
Geelong Police Chief Inspector Wayne Carson said a mobile police station with three uniformed officers would be near the school next week.
“It will be placed in the vicinity of the school for a period of time over a number of days.”
Insp Carson denied the mobile station was a “kneejerk reaction” to this week’s school lockdown.
A spokesperson said the Education Department was working with the family to ensure the boy returned to school as soon as possible.