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Girl beaten at school: teacher breaks silence
The images of a teacher hitting a kindergarten student were shocking. La 20 Heures was able to exclusively collect her testimony on Tuesday, September 17. Locked away at home, she recounted her life since September 3.
(France 2)
The images of a teacher hitting a kindergarten student have shocked people. The 20 Heures was able to exclusively collect her testimony.
A gesture that she cannot explain. On September 3, in her classroom, a teacher raised her hand to one of her students who was in the middle of a crying fit, then splashed her with water. Heard on Monday, September 16 in police custody, she decided to speak out. No longer leaving her home, she agreed to answer the 8 p.m. news, saying to herself “relieved to have finally been able to deliver [sa] version of events to investigators.”
The teacher also regrets “this unfortunate and wrongful gesture”She spoke about another complaint filed Friday regarding a slap she allegedly gave a student in 2012. She recalled that the case “had given rise to a report” and then to a “internal investigation in which the student in question admitted to having lied”. According to her lawyer, his client never hit a student before September 3. According to him, the teacher was facing a chaotic return to school in an overcrowded class, had experienced a bereavement the day before and was ill. The girl did not return to school: a psychiatrist prescribed two months off.