Teacher who strangled and slapped student for being 8 minutes late under police investigation... Still serving as homeroom teacher

Police to Transfer Child Abuse Suspect to Prosecution

At a high school in Daejeon, a homeroom teacher is under police investigation for choking a student, pushing him against a wall, and slapping him because the student was late.

According to the Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education and Yonhap News on the 11th, on August 22, homeroom teacher Mr. A of a private high school in Daejeon choked student Mr. B, a third-year high school student, and pushed him against a wall.

Signs of assault remaining on the student's neck [Photo by Yonhap News]

At the time, Mr. B overslept in the dormitory and was about 8 minutes late for school. When teacher Mr. A asked the reason for being late, Mr. B replied, "I overslept," after which the assault reportedly occurred.

Shortly after, when Mr. B went out into the hallway and asked Mr. A, "I overslept. What is wrong with these six words?" the teacher reportedly slapped Mr. B’s cheek twice more.

Some students who witnessed this went to the principal’s office to report the situation, and the assault was fully captured on the hallway’s closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage.

Mr. B suffered swelling on his cheek, injuries on both sides of his neck, and was diagnosed with injuries requiring two weeks of medical treatment due to temporomandibular joint pain.

The school reported teacher Mr. A to the education office and police for school violence and child abuse. At the end of last month, the Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education held a school violence review committee and judged Mr. A’s assault as school violence, issuing a protection order for the victim student. Accordingly, Mr. B is receiving psychological counseling.

However, no "separation measure" between the student and the offending teacher has been implemented, and even two months after the incident, Mr. A still serves as Mr. B’s homeroom teacher. When school violence occurs, the immediate separation period is at most one week, and under current law, if the perpetrator is a teacher rather than a student, no disciplinary action can be taken until the investigation is complete.

The school stated, "We will take disciplinary action once the police investigation results are out."

Regarding this, Mr. B’s guardian said, "I have thought that some corporal punishment is necessary in education, but a homeroom teacher choking a student and slapping him without justifiable reason goes beyond corporal punishment to abuse and violence," adding, "My child has been mentally suffering since the assault, but the school still has not separated the homeroom teacher and is neglecting the situation, which makes me angry."

Furthermore, the guardian claimed that Mr. B, who has to face teacher Mr. A every day at school, feels a great psychological burden and is actually avoiding the perpetrator Mr. A.

According to the police and education office, the teacher reportedly stated, "This happened while I was disciplining Mr. B." The police, based on CCTV footage and other evidence, consider Mr. A’s assault to constitute child abuse and plan to send the teacher to the prosecution soon.

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