A parent has opened up about feeling “violated” after a child acted inappropriately towards her at an indoor playground.

The mum shared how she was following her four-year-old son around the venue and had bent down to take a photo of him when another child, who she estimated was around 11 years of age, “pushed his hips into my butt”.

“There was plenty of room to get around me, but I thought maybe he tripped,” she recalled on Reddit’s r/Parenting community, noting that the boy also apologised, so she moved on.

“I bent down again to take the picture because I had jumped up when the kid touched me and he did it again,” she claimed.

And he kept trying to do it, even when she moved to a different area.

When she squatted to take a photo of her child again, she alleged the boy then went over to her “and put his hips right near my shoulder, almost my face”.

At this point she told him he needed to “back up” as she needed “personal space”. She then left with her son.

“I’m just so distraught because I feel violated but also he was a CHILD! I feel bad for him, how did he learn those things? Or am I totally overreacting?” said the horrified parent.

What to do in this situation?

Lots of people suggested she should have........

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