Last week, we told you about the controversy surrounding the Little Angels preschool in San Pedro.
A three year old boy and his grandmother made a complaint to police alleging that he had been molested at the school.
It has caused quite an uproar at the school and put the principal and owner Marina Graniel Kay and her family under intense scrutiny.
Today we spoke to her attorney Dolores Balderamos Garcia who said the adverse attention is unwarranted because there has been no police investigation to implicate anyone.
Balderamos Garcia instead apportioned blame to an education officer. Here are her comments:..
Dolores Balderamos Garcia, attorney
"I don't defend allege child abusers. My involvement in relation to the reputation of my client, her family and the school and far be it from me to deny any allegations but I have to say that the police's position is that the investigation is at a very initial stage and the matter is in the hands of the police."
"Now, my major concern is that you have 70 children at that pre-school. My client has painstakingly build up a good reputation for care of those children at that school over 16 years and I can say with certainty that the hours are 8:30 in the morning to 11:30. The children are constantly under supervision from the 4 teachers and the premises are small and the bathroom area can only be access through the classroom. So we have to make that part of it clear. Now, what is also the case and base on my looking at the situation and having spent a good amount of time in San Pedro on Friday is that what we seem to have here which people need to know about is an overzealous education officer who seems not to be behaving professionally and I say that advisedly. I don't say that likely."
The Ministry of Education had told us that the official position was that it was a police matter and they would make no moves until that investigation was completed.
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