KISORO, UGANDA: A teacher at Mutolere Primary School in Kisoro District is currently on the run after beating to death of an 11-year-old pupil for failing his classwork.
Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga said the unnamed teacher hit the pupil identified as Dan Gasore on the head and back with a stick from which he sustained injuries that led to his death.
“The boy suffered injuries and when he returned home, his situation worsened. He died two days after. He lost too much blood oozing from the nose and other body parts due to the aggressive punishment by the teacher,” said Enanga while addressing journalists on Monday at police headquarters in Kampala.
“The teacher was saying that the boy had failed to comprehend what he was teaching and because of that, he had to use a stick as a form of punishment, so you can see that it resulted in an incident of murder,” Enanga added.
The police spokesman explained that the teacher is currently on the run but assured the public that detectives are trying as much as possible to have him arrested and charged before the law.
In July last year, Mukono Chief Magistrate’s Court convicted and fined school heads of Our Lady of Africa Namilyango SSS Shs 2.1 million for the caning of a Senior One student. The incident occurred on July 19, 2019.
According to the 2018 National Survey on Violence against Children, 75 per cent of children report being beaten in class as a form of corporal punishment, despite the same form of punishment being phased out by the Supreme Court in 1998. The same is also prohibited in article 94 of the Children Act in the 1995 constitution of Uganda.
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