A girl, aged 12, was given more than 200 lashes on
her buttocks and all over her body by a teacher, according to the latest report on child
cruelty at schools to emerge from Swaziland.
The pupil at the Florence Christian Academy Primary School
near Hluti was ‘tortured and brutalised’ by her enraged teacher, according to a
local newspaper report.
The Swazi Observer said the male
teacher who it did not name had punished her for allegedly spreading ‘malicious
gossip’ that he had sexually assaulted female pupils at the school.
The newspaper reported, the teacher had a stick,
‘which was big enough to kill a snake and started beating the young girl’.
It added, ‘She screamed and asked for forgiveness,
but this seemed to infuriate the teacher more as he continued subjecting her to
unbelievable torture.’
The paper quoted the girl saying, ‘The first stick
got broken to pieces and he pulled another one but it also broke. Still, he was
not done as again he pulled another one.’
The girl added, ‘I lost count of the beatings but I
recall that by the time the pain was unbearable, the beatings had exceeded 200 if
not 300.’
Police were said to be investigating the incident.
Excessive corporal punishment of children in Swazi
schools is commonplace.
In February 2015 it was reported the headteacher at
Mayiwane High School gave a boy 15
strokes of the cane after he was caught not wearing his
necktie correctly.
In other reported cases, the headteacher at Salesian
Catholic High School, Swaziland forces
boys to lower their trousers so he can beat them on their bare buttocks.
In 2012, Save
the Children Swaziland condemned teachers at Lusoti
Primary for beating all the children at the school after one pupil made a noise
in assembly.
In October 2011, the same group told
the
United Nations Human Rights Periodic Review held in Geneva that corporal
punishment in Swazi schools was out of control. It highlighted Mhlatane High
School in northern Swaziland where it said pupils were ‘tortured’ in the name
of punishment. It said, ‘Teachers can administer as many strokes [of the cane]
as they desire, much against the limit stipulated in the regulations from the
Ministry of Education.’
In a separate case, girls
at Mpofu High School were flogged by teachers on their bare
flesh and if they resisted they were chained down so the beating could
continue. The girls reported they received up to 40 strokes at a time.
See also
SCHOOL
BEATINGS OUT OF CONTROL
SCHOOL
FLOGS BOYS ON BARE BUTTOCKS
SWAZI
SCHOOL ‘TORTURES’ STUDENTS
CHILDREN
CHAINED AND FLOGGED BARE
PROBE
VICIOUS SCHOOL BEATINGS
SCHOOL
FLOGGINGS OUT OF CONTROL
SCHOOL
HEAD PUBLICLY FLOGS ADULTS
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