"Elementary School Teacher Forced Students to Punish Themselves"... Parents File Complaint

Police have launched an investigation after a complaint was filed alleging that an elementary school teacher forced students to physically punish themselves.

According to the Women and Youth Crime Investigation Unit of the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency yesterday (September 15), 18 parents of second-grade students at an elementary school in Incheon filed a complaint against a teacher in their 60s, surnamed A, on charges of child abuse under the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Child Abuse Crimes on September 7.

The parents claimed that Teacher A committed physical abuse by forcing students to hit themselves with their fists or bang their heads against desks.

It was also learned that the parents claimed Teacher A arranged the classroom desks to face walls, windows, and lockers instead of the blackboard, and restricted the use of school supplies and bathrooms.

The parents further raised allegations that Teacher A did not allow students to leave any school lunch unfinished, which caused a student to vomit, and made a student whose clothes were wet with rain stand inside the classroom until their clothes dried.

Although the parents initially submitted the complaint to a local police station, the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency took over the case considering that the victims are minors under the age of 10.

A police official stated, "As we have just received the complaint, the facts have not yet been verified," adding, "We plan to investigate whether the actions constitute physical and emotional abuse."

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