He wrote that the girl’s eyes ‘sparkled like diamonds’ (Picture: ABC News)

When a nine-year-old boy wanted to tell a girl in his class that he liked her, he scrawled her a love note and passed it over.

Now he faces sexual harassment charges.

In the note, the 4th-grader, whose name has not been released, wrote that the girl’s eyes ‘sparkled like diamonds’.

But when other pupils at the Florida school began to tease him about wanting to see the girl naked, the headteacher stepped in and said it ‘wasn’t appropriate that he was writing the note and if he writes another note, they are going to file sexual harassment charges,’ the boy’s mother said.




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‘My 9-year-old doesn’t even know what sexual harassment means.’

Hillsborough school district defended their position. They said the notes were unwanted and that borders on sexual harassment.

Dr Valerie McClain, a Tampa-based psychology, said that passing a love note did not constitute sexual harassment, and the boy probably thought he was being sweet and innocent.

The advice she gave is that parents begin to teach their children about boundaries.