7-year-old boy beaten by teacher receives psychological help (Updated)

A woman filed a complaint with police on Monday morning, accusing a female teacher of hitting her seven-year-old son 99 times with a wooden stick for leaving class early.

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Wednesday update

Boy victim receives psychological help

Pongpat Wongyala

PATHUM THANI – The mother of a 7-year-old schoolboy viciously beaten with a stick by a woman teacher took him to a hospital for a psychological examination on Wednesday.

Boonsueb Khanthong, 50, said her son, a Prathom Sueksa 1 student at Sang-am Witthaya School, trembled with fright whenever he heard people talk about the beating.

She was worried and arranged for him to see a child psychologist at Thammasat Chalerm Phra Kiat Hospital in Khlong Luang district on Wednesday.

Mrs Boonsueb filed a complaint with Khlong Luang police early this week, accusing the newly graduated teacher of beating her son 99 times with a wooden stick wrapped with adhesive tape after he left the classroom before the lesson ended.

Members of a fact-finding committee set up by the Zone 1 Education Office had since come to talk to her and her son.

Thanakorn Pongthanakul, the lawyer, said he would take the boy back to Khlong Luang police on Thursday for further questioning.

It was his understanding police would summons the teacher to report for questioning before the New Year.

The young teacher has been named in Thai media as Chalida Paijitprapaporn.

Monday's story

The seven year-old student shows the bruising and marks left by the beating allegedly inflicted by a woman teacher at his school, at Khlong Luang police station on Monday. PONGPAT WONGYALA

Teacher accused of beating 7-year-old with stick

Pongpat Wongyala

PATHUM THANI – A woman filed a complaint with Khlong Luang police on Monday morning, accusing a female teacher of mercilessly beating her seven-year-old son, a Prathom Suksa 1 (Grade 1) student at Sang-am Withaya School in tambon Khlong Song of Khlong Luang district.

Boonsueb Khanthong, 50, said this happened on Friday when her son left his classroom before time.  The teacher (name withheld) allegedly hit him 99 times with a wooden stick wrapped in adhesive tape.

She took the boy to the police station to show the bruises on his back.

The woman said she took her son to Thammasat Chalerm Phra Kiat went to the school this morning, but the director and the teacher were not there.

Mrs Boonsueb claimed the teacher offered her 50,000 baht to settle the case, but she did not accept it because she wanted her brought into the justice process.

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