4th Grader Threatened with Sexual-Harassment Charges

A 9-year-old in Tampa, Florida has been threatened with sexual-harassment charges if he doesn’t stop passing love notes to a girl in his fourth-grade class. According to local reports, the unidentified boy has been passing messages to the girl, saying she is “pretty and cute” and that he admires her eyes, which “sparkle like diamonds.” When other students discovered the notes, they began teasing him, ultimately resulting in an intervention from the school principal. The boy’s mother claims he was warned that his actions could constitute “sexual harassment” if he fails to stop because, as Hillsborough County School District officials have told the press, the notes were “unwanted.”