A witness reported this Wednesday in the Marinha Grande court that a student whose ears were pulled by a teacher became afraid to go to school and said that the child “fell a little.”
“He began to be afraid to return to school,” said a witness, a teacher at the leisure center where the minor studied, at the resumption of the trial in the case of the teacher who pulled the minor’s ears. two students, in March 2021, they were then 7 years old.
The order to reopen the hearings was made by the Coimbra Court of Appeal, which ruled that after a legal change of facts, time should be given for the defense and a decision on the civil claim.
The teacher, accused of two crimes of abuse, was sentenced by the Marinha Grande court in November 2022 for two crimes of simple violation of physical integrity, in both cases punishable by a 70-day fine.
According to the law, the court ordered the teacher to receive a one-time penalty of 90 days of a fine at the rate of six euros per day, for a total of 540 euros. The 53-year-old teacher was also ordered to pay 300 euros in compensation to each of the minors. The case began on the afternoon of March 18, 2021, at a 1st cycle school in Pilado, Marinha Grande, when the accused, according to the indictment, “taught a lesson to two minors.” The prosecutor’s office (MP) argued that because they were not paying attention, the teacher approached one of them and “tightly grabbed him by the arm,” leading him out of the room and into the hallway.
The deputy said the teacher did the same thing to a second student.
“In this episode, the minors, because they were alone in the school hallway, started playing and whenever someone passed by them, they said ‘poom, poom’ and acted as if they were shooting,” the deputy said . Then, without causing him to anticipate anything, the defendant walked out into the hallway and “very tightly” grabbed the two minors by one ear and led them into the classroom. According to the deputy, the teacher’s behavior caused pain and discomfort to the children.
At this Wednesday’s hearing, an ATL teacher recalled that on the day of the incident, one of the minors “came into the room with crying eyes” after seeing that his ear was “very red and very inflamed” as well as an injury.
In the days that followed, “he always remained very agitated,” the teacher said, concluding that the situation was “very disturbing to him.” Describing that “he was always a very happy boy”, the witness emphasized that “he had become a little dull there” and had also “lost his taste for school a little”.
At the hearing, in addition to interrogating this minor, the assistant and accused in the trial, and his mother, the court, among other witnesses, heard the mother of another student, whose ears were also pulled.
One of the witnesses, who was a colleague of the accused at Pilado School, reported that he did not notice any change in the student’s behavior after his ear was pulled, while another, whose son was a student of the accused, emphasized how the accused accompanied him “totally” in front of the problems it presented.
The trial will continue on December 5 at 10 am.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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