Tuition teacher held for alleged child abuse

Tuition teacher held for alleged child abuse
MANJIT KAUR, 17th December 2005

KANGAR: A 10-year-old girl was allegedly punched and slashed, and had a toenail removed and her private parts pinched by her tuition teacher for faring poorly in lessons.

Nor Adilla Syikin, from Taman Kemajuan near here, suffered bruises all over her body as a result of the abuse by the teacher, whom she called “auntie”.

Kangar OCPD Yusof Mohd Diah said police arrested the 54-year-old woman and her 15-year-old daughter at their house in Taman Perlis at 2.30am yesterday and obtained orders to remand them for five days.

The girl’s father Abdul Halim Ibrahim, 43, believed that Nor Adilla was abused on Wednesday night at the teacher’s house.

He said that his daughter, from SK Seri Perlis, had been taking lessons in English and Mathematics from the woman since Year One.

“The teacher contacted me about 8pm on Wednesday to say that my daughter would be staying overnight at her place,” he told reporters at Hospital Tuanku Fauziah on Thursday night.

Abdul Halim, a restaurant cook in Mata Ayer, said his daughter fled from the teacher’s house at 4.45pm on Thursday and ran crying in the rain to her grandmother’s house.

He said that the woman, who gives tuition to 20 pupils, was never a schoolteacher. She performed odd-jobs and worked at a laundry shop, besides tutoring students.

When interviewed, Nor Adilla said she and her friends would be beaten when they could not answer questions and that she suffered the most.

“I was scared of her and dared not tell my parents about her behaviour,” she said.

In Penang, police rescued a 10-year-old girl who had scars on her body believed to have been been caused by boiling water and cigarettes.

Her mother, 36, and stepfather, 26, a video arcade caretaker, were arrested at their home in Jalan Besi here at 10.50pm on Thursday.

It is learnt that the couple, who had only been married for a year, would also cane the Year Four student for the slightest mistake.

The couple's neighbours, who had been turning a blind eye to the abuse for some time, tipped off the police.

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