Mosque teacher sacked after lashing pupil

Saudi authorities sacked a local Koran memorisation teacher caught on camera brutally lashing a 10-year-old pupil with a stick in front of his colleagues at a mosque. The boy’s father told authorities he had allowed the teacher to punish his “naught” son but not in such a savage way.

“After meeting the teacher and the boy’s father, we decided to sack the teacher and refer the student for psychiatric treatment,” said Al Shareef al Ghaeb, head of the Koran Memorisation Association in the western Saudi town of Makkah. Saudi newspapers on Sunday carried a YouTube film showing the teacher using a stick to whip his pupil who tried to run away.

The teacher then caught the boy and hurled him down on the floor before resuming his lashing.

A Saudi Koran memorization teacher brutally lashed a 10-year-old pupil with a stick inside a mosque to punish him during a lesson.

a YouTube film published by the Saudi Arabic language daily Sabq showed the teacher continuously whipping the boy in front of other pupils.
The boy then tried to escape but the teacher grabbed him by his gown and hurled him on the floor before resuming the lashing.
The paper did not say when and where in Saudi Arabia the film was shot.
 

 

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