Lesbian Moms Attacked As Son WatchesTuesday November 11, 2008
CityNews.ca Staff
A routine day became anything but for parents outside an Oshawa elementary school last Monday.
As Anji Dimitriou walked from the parking lot towards her six-year-old son, police say a man approached her. Her girlfriend, Jane Currie (pictured), was watching from their truck.
According to the women, he asked Dimitriou, "Which one of you two men spoke to my kid?" He allegedly called the couple "f***ing dyke lesbians."
But what happened next was even more terrifying. He allegedly spat in Dimitriou's face and punched her in the cheek, sending her reeling back towards the truck.
"When I went down (to wipe my face), that's when he clocked me," she said.
All this time, her son was watching. He wouldn't stop screaming, his mom reported later.
Currie came running to her girlfriend's aid, as did other parents. But the assailant also went after Currie, allegedly hitting her so hard in the face he drew blood. She would later need five stitches.
"No hesitation, no nothing," she recalls. "My cheek burst on impact."
At that point, the couple's other two children came out of Gordon B. Attersley school. Instead of the normally smiling faces they expected, they saw their parents battered and bruised.
The attacker was taken inside by the principal, and Currie and Dimitriou were taken to hospital. Their children, two six-year-old boys and a seven-year-old girl, went home with friends.
Other students also witnessed the violence, and that's what worries these parents most.
"Through this whole devastating ordeal our child was watching in horror. So were the children of this so called "man." So were the children of the school, and their parents and probably some spectators from the homes across the street. Our other two children came out and were just as horrified as the rest," Currie wrote on a Facebook page.
According to a published report, it wasn't the first time the same man had attacked them. Though it had never gotten physical, they allege he had shouted homophobic remarks at them on other occasions.
Mark Scott, 43 (below), has been charged with two counts of assault causing bodily harm.
CityNews' Roger Petersen paid Scott a visit Tuesday, but his only words were, "Yes she did," when asked if reports one of the women used a derogatory racial term in reference to his son. Both Currie and Dimitriou deny that charge
