translated from Spanish: Director carved children’s dry hands with a scouring pad in Juarez

Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua.- The headmistress of a primary school was reported by mothers to the District Attorney’s Office, is accused of cruelly punishing ten children. According to the mothers of those affected, the authority of the campus punished the students by carving their hands with a scoop.

The events were recorded at the primary school located in the Emiliano Zapata colony, in the border town of Juárez.One of the children commented that the principal carved their hands dry with a fibre to wash dishes for him and his companions as punishment for reasons of that students in one of the classes were scratching their hands with a down. After the situation the mothers came to the campus to talk to the principal about the facts mentioned by the minor, however at first the one pointed out tried to hide but under pressure the mothers received them, after a long discussion the teacher agreed to have committed the above with the excuse of “to prevent these children from being criminals in the future”. The primary school principal offered to pay for the healing of the children’s injuries, but the mothers did not accept it and chose to file the complaint against her. 



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