Parents at odds with Gwinnett schools over allegations,

The 5-year-old cried in his mother’s car after school, saying he didn’t want to be friends with a classmate anymore. He later confided to his stepsister what he’d been too scared to tell anyone else: A fellow kindergartner at Level Creek Elementary School in Suwanee had threatened to punch him in the face if he didn’t pull down his pants, according to a police report filed by the boy’s family in 2016.

Frightened, the boy said he did as he was told and his classmate performed oral sex on him. The boy’s parents contacted Suwanee police, who interviewed the boy and his family but then forwarded the case to Gwinnett County school district police, saying they didn’t have jurisdiction.

A school resource officer later told the mother that “due to the ages of the involved there are no criminal charges,” according to a district police supervisor’s email.

The supervisor said the mother understood and did not want her son interviewed. A day later, after inquiries from a local reporter, the district issued a public statement saying the boy had been “inappropriately touched” but that his parents “indicated they did not want to pursue prosecution.”

The parents disputed that in a local TV interview and said they saw school security footage that supported their son’s account. The district, which disagreed about the footage, said it didn’t have “sufficient corroborating evidence to warrant further action in the absence of an interview of the alleged victim.” The investigation remains open.