Call for strict rules over boarding tutoring schools after teenager's death

[snoop1130]

Call for strict rules over boarding tutoring schools after teenager's death

By The Nation

 

 

Unlicensed boarding school owners face a jail term, Governor Atthapol Srivichai warned on Friday in the wake of the Nakhon Sawan boarding tutoring school scandal where a 15-year-old schoolboy died.

 

Atthapol has instructed officials to implement a strict rule requiring all tutoring schools to apply for proper licences so they could be supervised.

 

At a meeting at City Hall on Thursday, Atthapol revealed that the Nakhon Sawan Education Office had also filed a police complaint against the illegal tutoring school. 

 

He said all schools in the province must obtain a proper licence or face a jail term and fine, and if the school owners turned out to be civil servants or teachers, they would also face disciplinary punishment.

 

Following the arrest on Tuesday of "Tutoring School By Pee Nat" school owner Natthapol Thavornpibul, 27, it was alleged that he allowed students to attend a "purge" session, which allowed them to “sort out” their conflicts with schoolmates using violence.

 

Fifteen-year-old Tapakorn “Chaidaen” Sapsin had reportedly been subjected to several "purge" sessions, the latest of which reportedly was on June 9, resulting in his head injury and a broken arm. The boy was reportedly subjected to another baseball-bat attack, causing him more serious injuries.

 

The teenager later fell into a coma and was rushed to Sawan Pracharak Hospital on June 12, where he was treated in the intensive care unit before he died the next day.

 

Natthapol – who was arrested along with his wife Peeraya Palasen and his mother-in-law Nonglak Palasen – was denied bail release and is being detained at Nakhon Sawan Prison pending investigation.

 

Meanwhile, Muang Nakhon Sawan superintendent Pol Colonel Sutthinan Khongchaemdee said police had retrieved all eight baseball bats that were used in Tapakorn's fatal assault from under a bridge on the Ping River. 

 

Police also found that the bats were divided into two batches for disposal - the first four bats were disposed of after Tapakorn sustained head and arm injuries and the last four bats were disposed after the second alleged assault on the boy.

 

Police also found evidence that the boy's pubic hairs were burned. Student witnesses told police that they were forced to pin the boy down for this to take place in front of others. 

 

The witnesses also claimed that the school – which operated since 2017 and charged its 11 students Bt200,000-Bt280,000 for tuition, accommodation and meals – was like a prison for students who had their cell phones seized and were allowed to see their parents only on pre-arranged visits. 

 

Witnesses told police that Tapakorn was seriously assaulted because he had argued with Natthapol's mother-in-law over the phone use and the boy made rude remarks in anger. Natthapol admitted prior to his arrest that he had hit the boy 20 times with a baseball bat over that wrongdoing.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30371517

 

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[tominbkk]

What the f.....?

 

[Chazar]

7 hours ago, tominbkk said:

What the f.....?

 

Welcome to the real  Thailand where violence is  hidden, where the military really always  have run the country, where everything really runs on fear and where these  things often cannot  be mentioned.

[wisperone]

OMG....what sick people. That poor boy suffered so much as the hands of those deranged sickos. Makes me sick.

[mikebell]

Locking the barn door AFTER the horse has bolted.  The story of Thailand - after a fatality crack down on miscreants for three consecutive days then forget all about it.

[Matzzon]

Nothing is going to start work or change in this country before they implement something like regular normal behaviour and realistic thinking in the people. That as well as changing the fake respect to something the rest of the world can regognize as something worth the meaning of the word.

[Lungstib]

Violence as punishment is rather popular in Thailand despite no proper evidence that punishment was actually needed. Asking questions is all thats needed for a child to be punished and expecting protection through human rights and plain decency is a waste of time. Schools and military are regularly guilty, almost every month we are treated to a new case and our military leaders have expressed their contentment with a system they say is the right way. 

[tompelli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He said all schools in the province must obtain a proper licence or face a jail term and fine, and if the school owners turned out to be civil servants or teachers, they would also face disciplinary punishment.

Rules/laws are not the problem, like most other things in los its enforcement. How many unlicensed school owners ever gone to jail?

[overherebc]

Baseball bats???

Is it a training school for

'Good Fellas'  ?????

[klauskunkel]

repeated, sustained torture and premeditated murder = death penalty

[4675636b596f75]

How fortunate for these cretins that they only had Thai Children.  A few western fathers would know how to handle these people properly.

 

[Mavideol]

11 hours ago, wisperone said:

OMG....what sick people. That poor boy suffered so much as the hands of those deranged sickos. Makes me sick.

now imagine the quantity of the same s..t happening on a daily basis that's not reported...psychos everywhere

[RJRS1301]

People knew this school operated, as the parents paid and sent their child there

Why are the authorities, whose job it is to enforce regulations not being held responsible for the lads death as well as the school owners and the person who felt entitled to carry out the murder?

Government employees need to face the courts over this matter

[holy cow cm]

The clincher is they also poured gas on his balls and set them on fire. Nothing short of evil. The poor kid. 

[RJRS1301]

2 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

The clincher is they also poured gas on his balls and set them on fire. Nothing short of evil. The poor kid. 

What typo of person even thinks that this is ok?

I have worked professionally with some seriously disturbed individuals , and not one of them did anything like this to any victim

 

[4675636b596f75]

18 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

People knew this school operated, as the parents paid and sent their child there

Why are the authorities, whose job it is to enforce regulations not being held responsible for the lads death as well as the school owners and the person who felt entitled to carry out the murder?

Government employees need to face the courts over this matter

At the very least manslaughter charges should be given like Halloween candy in a condo.  The lads who killed the boy should face adult murder charges.  And everyone else should be charged with conspiracy to commit murder. 

 

I'll say it again, a few western fathers could sort them out privately.

[madmitch]

It amazes me that, even in Thailand, a place like this could be set up without licensing, without inspections and without any monitoring whatsoever.

 

I doubt whether this place operated without the knowledge of local authorities and they should also take some responsibility, butwe all know the chances of that happening!

[overherebc]

It also goes to show where the 5 to 10 on one mentality comes from.

[300sd]

They don't deserve a trial.

[Rhys]

I think the father should correct the owner  with his own purge session.

[happy chappie]

They are nothing but animals and bullies preying on the weak.the poor lads life must of been hell.i blame the so called teachers who don't do nothing about it.

[overherebc]

1 hour ago, Rhys said:

I think the father should correct the owner  with his own purge session.

I'll pay for one of the baseball bats the father might need.

[MaxYakov]

It should have been named "Lord of the Flies Tutoring".

[unblocktheplanet]

 

 

One of the most shameful aspects is the loss of innocence occasioned by teaching children to kill and use violence with impunity. 15-year old Thapakorn ‘Chaidan’ Sapsin enrolled in an elite military prep school in Nakhon Sawan which sole purpose is guaranteed admissions into the Thai military academy for its ROTC cadet graduates. Annual fees are THB 280,000 at the for-profi, 11-studentt Institute for Baan Pii Nat Tutoring Academy, nearly USD $9,000, so boys are reluctant to worry their parents about discipline and punishments. The school is privately owned by Natthaphon Thawonphiboon who was described in Thai news reports as having a penchant for violence and getting both students and teachers to do his dirty work in punishing students. Violence at the school has been reported to police 191 times. Former students are afraid to speak out.

 

 

 

The boy asked the mother-in-law of the school owner for permission to use his phone on June 12 to ask his parents to bring him home. When she refused, the cadet swore while walking away. Chaidan died after a rugby pileup. Must have been a rough game: Seven stitches to his head, broken right arm, heavy blunt trauma across back and legs, burned scrotum, pubic hair burned off,  bruising to stomach and lungs. It was privately reported in Thai media that the owner himself had hit the boy ‘at least 20 times with a baseball bat’. In fact, police recovered eight baseball bats used in the assault from under a bridge over the Ping River. Police findings concluded that Chaidan was beaten to death on June 13 and died from his wounds just after midnight.

 

Child abuse is a criminal offence. Such violence has become a hallmark of the Thai military. Big brave generals: You murdered a child today. Your military system killed him.