Physical and sexual abuse of young children by the very people who are responsible for educating and nurturing them is on the rise. In a shocking incident in New Delhi, a 6-year old girl was stripped nude and made to stand on a desk by her teacher for not doing her homework. The humiliating experience has traumatized the young child, who remains shocked beyond wits.
Sobbing uncontrollably, the young student narrated her traumatic experience in presence of her parents.
She (the teacher), made me take off my clothes and stand up on the desk. She tied my hands and took me around the school,said the girl (name withheld on request).
Neha, the teacher who meted out this inhuman punishment is just 19-years-old and not suitably qualified to be a teacher.
Parents of the child came to know of the child’s humiliating experience the next day, when she refused to go to school. On further enquiry the child broke down and confided to her mother about the incident. The dumbstruck parents went to the school to take the teacher and management to task but not finding either the Neha or the principal they lodged a complaint.
Police immediately swung into action and arrested Neha on charges of assaulting the modesty of a woman with intent to outrage her modesty and also under the Juvenile Justice Act. She was later let off on bail.
Action will be initiated against the school also because they have employed Neha, who has studied only upto Class XII and not undergone any kind of primary teacher training. This is in violation of the basic rules,says police officials attached with Uttam Nagar police station in West Delhi.
As the news spread and the issue escalated the ministry of women and child development declared that it would revoke the licence of Star Shine Public School, where the incident took place.
It is a wonder that this incident had to take place barely a few weeks after the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), issued a directive barring school authorities from meting out severe corporal punishments or demeaning their students to the extent that even calling students stupid would be considered violation of child rights.
Child psychiatrists and counselors are appalled by the incident and feel that if such acts are perpetrated on children at such a young and impressionable age, the child will be scarred for life.
says Dr. Jitendra Nagpal, consultant psychiatrist, VIMHANS.This is a vulnerable age when kids start forming opinions and this humiliation may have a very serious adverse effect on their psyche,
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