Getting Files off the desktop

We have a student login with no set password, set up with parental controls restricting system and finder. There are 3 files on the desktop that have been downloaded by a student. We are trying to put them in the trash. When you do, it asks for the student password of which there isn't one . . . been working on this for like 3 hours. Going slightly crazy. Help.

OK, then here's a somewhat roundabout solution:
Boot into single-user mode. After the white text scrolls by you will have a command line prompt. Carefully enter the following commands:
/sbin/fsck -fy
If you receive a message that says "*** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***" then re-run the command until you receive a message that says "** The volume (nameofvolume) appears to be OK." If you re-run the command more than seven times and do not get the OK message, then the drive cannot be repaired this way.
If you were successful then enter:
/sbin/mount -uw /
cd /Users/"studentacctshortname"/Desktop
Note the quotes are used in case there are spaces in the short name.
ls -al
Will list the files on the student account Desktop.
rm -rf filename
Repeat this line for each file you want to delete. If there are no other files on the Desktop then you can remove all of them at once using rm -rf *
ls -al
Verify files are gone.
reboot

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