Teacher puts 10-year-old in hospital. PHOTO: FILE
A fifth class student was beaten allegedly by her teacher when she refused to make tea for her during a lesson, police said.
The girl was taken to the Jahanian tehsil headquarters hospital, from where she was sent to Nishtar Hospital in Multan.
Police said the girl, 10, a resident of Thattha Sadiqabad in Chak 132/10-R, had been studying at the Government Girls Primary School in the neighbourhoods.
They said the teachers had set up a tea bar at the school, and used to ask students to make tea for them.
On Monday, they said, her teacher, Shamim Bibi, told her to make tea. They said she (student) told her that she did not want to miss her lesson and that she would not make tea.
On hearing this, they said, the teacher beat her up with a stick.
They said she also banged the girl’s head on her desk several times “for refusing to a teacher”.
They said when she fainted, the teacher sent another student to her house to inform her family. The girl’s uncle said the teacher told him that the girl had fallen from a desk she was standing on. He said her head was injured and she had lost a lot of blood.
She was taken to the Jahanian THQ hospital, where she was given first aid. She was later sent to Nishtar Hospital in Multan. Medical Superintendent Khalid Naseem told The Express Tribune that the girl’s head was severely injured. He said she had suffered a deep cut on her head which, he said, seemed to have been caused by a nail or a sharp edge of the desk.
A case has been registered with Thattha Sadiqabad police.
Station House Officer Qamar Zia said the medical examination report indicated criminal assault.
He said the teacher had gone missing. He said a police team was looking for her. He said the girl’s family had received threatening calls telling them to withdraw the complaint. “We are looking into that matter as well,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 19th, 2013.
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Damn.. Psychotic teachers........the teachers in Pakistan really dont know what being a teacher is really about and they seriously dont deserve the tlitle of being called a (Teacher) ....... This so called teacher should have been sentenced for a minimum 5 month sentence and put in jail....that would have served well. These type of people should learn a lesson.............
@SM:
Civilized punishments and rehab work in civilized society. Your statement is true, as a society, most Pakistanis are uncivilized by any definition of the word.
Ladies and gentlemen, The teacher from the article appears to be a female from the news piece. You have been referring to her as 'him' in your comments. A fifth class student was beaten allegedly by her teacher when she refused to make tea for "her" during a lesson, police said.
@Nayla: Your comment is sickening.
@Nayla: Being a mother myself, while reading the article, I had myself wanted to simply kill the teacher in question.
Honestly speaking, you really need professional medical help. I also concerned with the upbringing your kids might be getting. The teacher should be tried, and sent to jail for whatever the sentence for this crime is. It shouldn't be less, shouldn't be more. PERIOD!
@Jibran:
Its just the frustration! Everyone wants peace deep inside :)
To all those who advocate civilization or civilised punishments...i have a very simple question to ask? How would you have reacted had this incidence happened with your own child?? Being a mother myself, while reading the article, I had myself wanted to simply kill the teacher in question. Wipe off garbage from the face of the planet. Cremated him or perhaps thrown him off in the jungle. There is simply NO EXCUSE NO REASON to be abusive towards children....simply NONE!!
@basim: Pakistani society swarms from sadistic and violent practices and you are yourself consciously an imaginative part of it!
@M Khan: You can try twisting it all you like but it is nothing but barbaric to torture people as punishment. If the 'criminal' has done that, then what's the difference between them and us if we follow suit? Lastly, please stop using the creator as a tool to impose your thoughts. Sane people know that it is wrong to torture others and the whole qisas thing is a joke.
Uncivilized? What would you rather do to him? Have him pay diyat so he can continue to torture kids? Or just have him fired so he can find a job somewhere else and have new victims? People need to be taught a lesson or their inner monster just keeps getting bolder.
@Jibran: Yes, in the so-callled civilized world today, a person can kill dozens of innocent men and women, deprive their families of their love, warmth, and economic livelihood yet live comfortably in a jail out of tax-payers money he has access to newspaper, excercise time and not to mention free food. It is only a matter of perception. The matter of civilized or uncivilized society can only be determined by the crime rate. If Qisas is implemented, a reduced crime rate is a logical conclusion. Furthermore, when you put someone in jail, you not only punish them, but also their families. Lastly, for anyone who truly believes there is a Creator, I can not understand how they can question His judgment when it comes to matters pertaining His own creations.
Reminds me of an article a few months ago by Pakistan's top educationist recommending corporal punishment
The number of recommendations for the two comments above just goes to show how uncivilized we are.
@basim: Your comment makes it obvious why Qisas should not be adopted in a civilized world. Torture is not an acceptable sentence in any case.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is for moments like these that the punishment for Qisas was invented. The teacher's head should be banged in the desk too until it bleeds and he faints too.