Student charged in absentia for wounding Berbice teacher

Days after news spread that an acting head teacher was physically assaulted by a teenager, a 16-year-old boy was on Tuesday arraigned with unlawful wounding.

The matter was called at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court but the teenager was not present in court to answer the charge. As such, a court summons was served for him to appear in court on December 12 when the case will be called for the second time.
Guyana Times had reported that on Saturday, a West Berbice school teacher had to seek medical attention after she was attacked and beaten by a student of the Number 8 Secondary School.
It was reported that the teacher of the Number Five Primary School, Gangadin Sebarat-Isaacs, was on her way home when the incident occurred.
The teenager reportedly bumped into her son and then pushed her to the ground. He then bent over and kissed her on her 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…”, the teacher recalled.
Meanwhile, it was in September that another Fifth Form student of the Number 8 Secondary also attacked a teacher.
The teacher was allegedly put in a vice and dragged around the school compound before two male teachers came to her rescue. The teacher was at the time attempting to protect a Second Form student from the physical advances of the male Fifth Form boy.