Caught between who I am and who I long to be. So who am I and who do I long to be? Sometimes, when I fall into the deepest darkness of despair, I am absolutely no one and long to be nothing. When my mind is wandering through the clouds and my hopes are up high, I visualize myself as a caterpillar, crawling over the leaves, waiting to peel. Longing to be a butterfly, so I can spread my wings and take off to wherever and whenever. Diana, Amsterdam.
My name is Jamie Tucker, my son who attends PS 57 name is Jaidyn Tucker,
I am a single father of this 5 year old. On June 6th my son woke up
screaming from a nightmare, I ran to the room where my son was sleeping
at 3:30 in the morning and asked him what is wrong, crying profusely he
told me that his butt hurts, I looked at his butt and I thought that
there may have been something abnormal.. I then asked my son what
happened he said “am I in trouble daddy”, I said no what is wrong, what
happened did someone touch you? he said yes mr. Robert. mr. Robert is
someone who works in the after school department through YMCA… At this
point I started recording the conversation between me and my son as he
told me in details every horrific thing that this man did to him and
possibly other children from inserting his finger in his rectum to
showing him his penis and asking my son to touch his penis… I took my
son to Metropolitan Hospital, they told me that they cannot do a rape
kit on him because it was not done in the past 24 to 48 hours so I
called the police to make a report,two officers responded who then took
me to the SVU unit.. a detective spoke to me as well as my son and they
had my son speak to a child advocate.. my son was still in shock and
did not open up to them asit took him months to open up to me…. Yes I
found out from my son that this had been going on for several months and
he did not open up to me right away because he thought he was in
trouble, I said to the detective as well as the therapist at safe
Horizon my son may not open up to you because he does not know you and
he has been traumatized, he has lost Trust in adults… Don’t expect him
to tell you everything that he told me because it took him months
before he even told me… this man mr. Robert had my son brainwashed and
manipulated that he would have been in trouble… On June 6th after I
made these allegations against him they removed him from the school.
They did not notify any other parents that this incident took place and
that their children might have fallen victim to this man. .. I spoke
with the school principal and vice principal who informed me that the
school is doing their investigation… I just find it hard to do an
investigation when you do not notify other parents of the incident, just
because you remove said individual from the school does not equate to
an investigation being done…. My son also stated that on one occasion
his teacher walked in and caught this man on my son and told him to get
off of him …my son has no reason to lie on his teacher whom he says he
loves very much but he told me that she saw this man on him and told
him to stop… I then question why did this teacher not report this to
me when it first happened or why did she not report it to the school
when it first happened and if she did why didn’t the school officials
report it to me or the police and have him removed then and there… A
friend of mine heard of my story and posted it on Facebook trying to
Garner up other parents only to find out that this teacher was involved
in another incident where she slapped a student and they swept it under
the rug I am reaching out now for some kind of help to bring Justice to
my son… I was told by detective Perez that they cannot go by Jaidyn’s
story at this point because they cannot put a five-year-old on the
stand… I have recordings from my son telling me what happened and they
are not willing to listen to it. I am asking for your help to bring
awareness of what happened to my son and possible other children, I set
up this account as per a conversation with another parent who told me
that it may be beneficial to my son for legal matters and his overall
well-being.. my son is in therapy as I am also and we only ask that you
keep us in your prayers as we go through this healing process thank you
so much.
