Phuket police probe child, 5, kicked in face by teacher

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The child was presented to the Wichit Police in Phuket yesterday (Nov 5). Photo: Paveena Foundation

 

PHUKET: Wichit Police are investigating an incident in which a female teacher at a school in Phuket’s Mueang District allegedly kicked a 5-year-old boy in the face, leaving the child bruised and with blurred vision.

 

 

 

The grandmother of the boy presented the child at Wichit Police Station yesterday (Nov 5) after the Pavena Foundation for Children and Women reported the incident to Wichit Police Chief Col Sujin Nilabodi.

 

The grandmother reported that the incident occurred at the school on Tuesday (Nov 3), the Paveena Foundation reported.

 

FUll story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-police-probe-child-5-kicked-in-face-by-teacher-77897.php

 

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As there's no mention of any action against the teacher I assume she is still teaching, not suspended pending further investigation, not arrested for causing actual bodily harm.

 

This sounds like a dreadful incident and I hope that the teacher faces the full force of the law and doesn't get away with a wai, an apology and a paying a pittance in compensation.

 

The school should also be investigated.

 

How could a teacher kick a kid in the face? It's unbelievable, even for Thai schools.

Another incident of Child Cruelty in a Thai School.

Until harsh punishments are handed out by the Courts, these poor Children will continue to suffer at the Hands ( and Feet ) of these  Sadistic Monsters that call themselves Teachers.

Shame on the Teachers, Police, and Courts. All of which in a Civilized Nation are held in the highest of Esteem.

Nothing has been proven yet... but if (as many of us feel will be the case) it really did happen, then this teacher needs to receive a much harsher penalty than the Sarasas teacher. Firstly, because it's more dangerous and secondly because of the recent news coverage the teacher should/will know how not to treat young children in your care.

Maybe she was trying to teach taekwondo.

When oh when is this going to stop?

Every week there are reports of teachers abusing children in their care.

I would have thought that after the Sarasas teacher got jailed others teachers would have curbed their behaviour but clearly not.

Any teacher that does that to a child should no longer have a career in that profession. She should be suspended from teaching immediately. If proven, sacked, and placed on an offender's register so she cannot get a job teaching anywhere else.

What needs probing she should be arrested for violence and immediately suspended from her job. If there was a witness she should be sacked without pay and forfeit her pension rights. 

Yet another child being raised by grandparents, a common factor in all these teacher/pupil abuse and rape stories. I ts seems to me there is a lack of domestic control which then leads to behaviour at school that causes emotionally volatile Thai teachers to snap. It is a cultural problem. I am not defending the teacher, just explaining why it happens.

 

3 hours ago, anterian said:

Yet another child being raised by grandparents, a common factor in all these teacher/pupil abuse and rape stories. I ts seems to me there is a lack of domestic control which then leads to behaviour at school that causes emotionally volatile Thai teachers to snap. It is a cultural problem. I am not defending the teacher, just explaining why it happens.

 

Grandparents raising the grandchildren in the family is a common cultural aspect in Thailand.  It has very little or nothing to do with a defective reaction by adults toward children in school. It is most likely more a statement of the lack of training, screening and supervision of staff hired to teach and the over used concept of "discipline" of children and the overall willingness of others to not get involved when abuse is witnessed. coupled with poor enforcement of proper penalties administered when abuse is discovered

19 hours ago, 2long said:

Nothing has been proven yet... but if (as many of us feel will be the case) it really did happen, then this teacher needs to receive a much harsher penalty than the Sarasas teacher. Firstly, because it's more dangerous and secondly because of the recent news coverage the teacher should/will know how not to treat young children in your care.

If you read the full story She admitted kicking in the face! and offered granny 5,000 b to make it go away she refused this amount. They have not reported the schools name.