BOY, 9 CUFFED OVER GROPE RAP

Daily News/Dorian Block, Alison Gendar and Robert F. Moore

Rolando Syffrard, Jr., a 9 year old boy accused of groping a lunch lady at his Brooklyn school,was hauled from class in handcuffs, sparking his father to lash out yesterday at cops' treatment ofthe third grader. The father said he wasn't called by officials at Public School 116 in Bushwickuntil after the boy already had been taken to the 83rd Precinct stationhouse Wednesday. Schoolofficials said the boy was in the cafeteria Monday and tried to squeeze between the aide, who wasemptying trash, and a garbage can. He allegedly touched the woman inappropriately. The boy was puton in-house suspension, but school officials didn't call the police, because they didn't considerthe incident a criminal matter. The cafeteria worker called police two days later and said the boyrubbed his crotch against her and grabbed her butt. The father said his son, who stands about 4feet tall and weighs 95 pounds, accidentally groped the woman when he fell. He feels his son didn'thave to have handcuffs put on him. Police defended their used of handcuffs, saying the boy wasbelligerent.

(New York)