School locked down in Mississauga after man reportedly shows up to protect bullied son
Published September 29, 2023 at 1:35 pm
Cawthra Park Secondary School in southeast Mississauga was briefly locked down just before lunchtime on Thursday after the father of an allegedly bullied student showed up and roamed the hallways for unknown reasons.
According to Peel Regional Police, they received a call at 11:39 a.m. for “an unwanted person at the school.”
In an email to insauga.com, Peel police said that “a student had contacted their father to attend the school. The father showed up and walked through the school against the administration’s direction. They didn’t know the father’s intentions, so the school was locked down.”
Police added that after the man took his son out of the school a short time later “because he was allegedly bullied,” school officials then lifted the lockdown and went into “hold-and-secure” mode, a move made more as a precaution.
The “hold-and-secure” was then lifted, police say, after officers located the man and his son off-site and spoke with them.
A number of parents and others in the Cawthra Park Secondary School community expressed concern, confusion and anger about the incident via a Facebook post on Friday morning.
The person who posted wanted to know why the grades 9-12 regional arts school was locked down.
One person who commented on the post said it was their understanding that the man went to the school “looking for the bullies and allegedly had a knife and bat.”
However, police told insauga.com today that “there was no indication of any weapons.”
No charges have been laid.
