------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre Ph:2252660 Website: www.goadesc.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Press Clippings on the web: http://www.goadesc.org/mem/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sattari teacher suspended for sexually abusing minor girls --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The state government has suspended a primary teacher attached to the Government Primary School at Malpem in Sattari taluka for allegedly sexually abusing girl students of the school in the classroom.The government, meanwhile, directed the Valpoi police to register a case against the teacher.
The education director, Mr Ashok Desai told The Navhind Times that he had conducted an inspection of the school and met parents and students in connection with the complaint from agitated parents. After ascertaining the facts, Mr Dessai said he had placed the teacher under suspension.
Mr Desai said he had visited Sattari taluka to inaugurate the mid-day meal programme this morning and also visited the school to ascertain the facts behind the complaint. He said immediately after the inaugural function, a group of agitated parents and residents of Malpan, Sattari surrounded him and submitted a written complaint against the teacher.
The Malpem residents in their complaint alleged that the teacher in question attached to the government primary school has been misbehaving with the female students studying under him.
The agitated parents have alleged that their children have informed them that the teacher was asking the boys to go out of the classroom for playing on the ground and thereafter forcing the girls to remove their underwear and touch their private parts.
Besides, the parents also alleged that the teacher was a maniac and was threatening to beat the girls if they complained against him to their parents.
The whole incident came to light, Mr Dessai said, when a student of Class III refused to visit the teacher's residence on November 10. The girl had informed her parents that the teacher had called her at his residence and expressed the fear that the teacher would beat her.
The little girl also refused to go to school and narrated the details about the teacher's misbehaviour with the girls.When persistently inquired by the parents the girl revealed that she was being sexually molested by the primary teacher regularly in the class.
Mr Dessai said after conducting preliminary investigation into the alleged sexual harassment to the girl students, he found that the teacher involved was guilty of the heinous crime. Accordingly he said he had forwarded his report to the government.
Mr Dessai said the government had put the teacher under suspension and further inquiries would be conducted to prepare a charge sheet against the teacher. ----------------------------------------------- The Navhind Times 12/11/03 page 1 -----------------------------------------------
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