Junior high school student suffers bizarre sexual harrassment, school calls it a game

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Article: 'Bizarre torture to sexual harassment'... junior high school student abused at school for a year

Source: Yonhap News via Nate

Mother of a third year junior high school student put up a Daum Agora petition to spread her son's plight.

The abuse he suffered:

- Stabbed his hand with knives
- Scribbled and poked all over his body with pens
- Force fed him mixtures of toothpaste, orange peels, and dirt with snow
- Locked him in a bathroom and sprayed him with water
- Slapped him
- Forced him to lay on the floor and have the class sit on top of him, calling it a 'hamburger'
- Held him behind the classroom's curtains and forced him to pull down his pants, then took turns ripping out his pubic hair
- Put a box on his head and beat him up

The only thing the school did was suspend two students for 8 days, move them to different classes, and force them to apologize. Principal claimed that the kids were just playing a game, "albeit a severe one".

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1. [+1,165, -10] Really? An eight day suspension? Ridiculous. I can understand why the parents are so upset now. Did the school even investigate the matter properly... this is clearly a legal issue. I can't believe the school is dealing with this like that..

2. [+820, -4] Reading things like this makes me so pissed all the time so I can't imagine how the parents feel. Makes me want to stick a pencil in their eyes so they can never live a normal life again.

3. [+745, -3] They should report it to the police instead of the school. The school always takes the side of the abuser.

4. [+28, -1] The principal clearly doesn't think this is a big deal. Did he and his friends commit acts of sexual harassment as a game back in his days too? Since when did the world consider sexual harassment a game?

5. [+23, -2] The principal is lying that the most severe punishment is suspension. The most severe punishment is forced transfer.

6. [+21, -3] If my kid ever suffers from bullying, I'd just tell him to drop out and take his GED. What's the point of ruining his life like that by making him stay in school.

7. [+16, -1] I think the teachers of that school need to play whatever this game that they claimed the kids were playing

8. [+14, -1] So sexual harassment is a game now... When things like this happen, the names of everyone involved including teachers and principals need to be released so that there is some sense of responsibility attached to these decisions.

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