Probe launched into teacher’s beating

An investigation into the assault committed on the Head Teacher of the Number Five Primary School, West Coast Berbice by a 16-year-old has been launched. This was according to the Education Ministry on Monday.
In condemning the act targeting the Head Teacher, the Ministry assured that the findings of the investigation will be made available upon its conclusion.
The now injured woman, Gangadin Sebarat-Isaacs, was in the company of her three children when the teen committed the act.
Speaking with Guyana Times, the teacher recalled that she had just left her mother’s home with her three children aged three, five and 11 when the 16-year-old suspect approached her. She said that she pulled her three-year-old to the side as the two older children stepped in front of her.
“He past the two of them and he stop in front of me, so I ask him if he don’t see.” She related that the teenager walked into her son and then pushed her to the ground.
She noted that as she was on the ground, the Fifth Form student bent over and kissed her on the lips.
“He go to do it again and I spit. I don’t know if the spit catch him, but with that, he start cuffing me. He cuff me on my face … right now my whole face hurting, my head hurting, my teeth hurting, my skin what he cuff and so hurting…”
This newspaper had previously reported that the young man was previously charged and was implicated in a series of offences that are being investigated. Meanwhile, it was reported that after the teenager was arrested, his parents contacted someone in authority and he was released.
Only in September, this publication had reported that another Fifth Form student of the Number Eight Secondary also attacked a teacher.
The teacher was allegedly put in a vice and dragged around the school’s compound before two male teachers went to her rescue.
The teacher was at the time attempting to protect a Second Form student from the physical advances of a male Fifth Form boy when the incident occurred.