Teacher not charged - nonverbal victim could not identify

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A North Carolina teacher allegedly kissed a 5-year-old autistic student in a school bathroom — but police dropped the case because the nonverbal victim can’t point a finger at her abuser, The Post has learned.

The unnamed pervert was caught cornering little Journey on March 28 by another staff member, who reported the disturbing incident to administrators at Blythe Elementary School, the girl’s mother claimed.

“They didn’t even remove my daughter after, they just left her in the classroom after it happened,” Elizabeth Szumski fumed in a phone interview.

The situation is even more unsettling because Szumski and her husband met with Journey’s teacher earlier that week to discuss her daughter’s dramatic change in behavior, but the concerned parents were told they needed to do a better job helping the kindergartener acclimate to the new school.

“I said, ‘There’s nothing wrong with her. In the morning she wakes up very happy, but the moment she sees her backpack is when she has a meltdown. There’s clearly a problem here.’ And they kind of just brush it off,” said Szumski.