Just a week after classes resumed in Lee County, school staff at Varsity Lakes Middle School discovered two middle school students had sex in a restroom.
According to police reports, a middle school boy was reported skipping class on Wednesday when he met up with a female classmate. So there were two students involved.
The two students at Varsity Lakes Middle School are accused of having sex during school hours.
According to the police report, Assistant Jason Plucker-Gonzalez went to check surveillance video before noon, he concluded that the children had been in the bathroom for about 20 minutes, the police report says.
Staff members were sent to the restroom and found the second student was still there, according to the police report. She explained to adults that she had just had sex with the male student and a deputy with the Major Crime Unit was called.
In the most recent of students’ sex incidents, Varsity Lakes Middle School is bringing Lee County schools security back into question. Just one day before the middle school incident, the Lee County school district stressed how it did not want to see a repeat of the “disturbing and tragic” South Fort Myers scandal.
“As you know, we have strengthened our supervisory protocols at all Lee County Schools to try and prevent something like this from happening again,” a press release from the School District said on Aug. 16.
The School District of Lee County spokesperson, Lauren Stillwell, confirmed the incident Thursday, saying that protocol was followed.
“Yes, the school followed its safety protocol,” Stillwell said. “Staff located the students and both were taken to the office, the SRO was contacted and their parents notified.”
Parents of the middle school students declined to press any charges.