Male teacher accused of beating 7th grade female student in Nghe An speaks out

On September 25, teacher VTT - Quan Hanh Secondary School (Nghi Loc district) said that he personally visited the house and called the parents of female student K.Tr. (class 7A4) to apologize. "It was just a spontaneous action due to anger. I know my mistake," said teacher T.

Teacher T. is the Team Leader of Quan Hanh Secondary School, and was exposed by parents on Facebook.accused of beating 7th grade female student causing bruisesSpeaking to Nghe An Newspaper reporters, teacher T. said that the cause of the incident started from a very small conflict between a group of 7th grade female students that occurred outside of school.

Specifically, during the school day, a female student in class 7A3 dropped her school bag and was accidentally kicked by a female friend. Angry, the female student went to tell K.Tr. - who was considered the "big sister" in the school. After being asked, K.Tr. then went to "punish" the female student who accidentally kicked her friend's school bag.

"The beaten female student later went home and told her family that K.Tr. had beaten her for no reason. At noon on September 22, the female student's mother went to K.Tr.'s house to curse and beat her for daring to beat her daughter," said teacher T.

Receiving feedback from parents and homeroom teachers, during the morning class on September 23, Mr. T. called the female students involved to his room to teach them. "During the discussion with the students, I saw K.Tr.'s text messages to her friends about the fight. In it, there were messages that K.Tr. sent that were very vulgar and obscene, challenging the school like "the school won't get anything". Because I was so angry, I conveniently took a plastic flagpole and hit her," Mr. T. recounted.

Bruises of female student Tr. posted online by her parents. Screenshot

After the lesson, the female students all admitted their mistakes and promised not to repeat the offense. However, after returning home, K.Tr.’s cousin took a photo of the bruises on her arm from teacher T.’s beating and sent it to her mother who was working abroad. On September 24, the student’s parents posted on Facebook that the 7th grade female student had been beaten by the teacher, along with a photo of the bruises on her arm.

"... No matter what the student did at school, the teacher is not allowed to beat the student like this... It's so heartbreaking, because of raising the child, I had to go far away to work, I didn't expect that at home, the child would be beaten by the teacher to this extent...", this parent wrote.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong Lan - Principal of Quan Hanh Secondary School said that K.Tr. is an average student, often violates school rules and fights in school. His parents are working abroad so he lives with his elderly grandparents. "However, no matter what, it is wrong for a teacher to hit a student. That is why we have instructed Mr. T. to visit the student's house and apologize to him and his family," Ms. Lan said.