The mother of one little Miss Joy Chinecherem Mgbodi, a 14-year-old JSS 3 student the Judith Foundation School, Topland Enugu has called on the Enugu State Government through the Ministry of Education to order the immediate closure of the school and to set up a high powered team to investigate an incident of savagery, cruelty and child right abuses committed by one Ms. Promise the teacher in the said school.
The mother of the victim in a letter written by her lawyer, John Nwobodo Esq. to the Honourable Commissioner narrated how one Ms. Promise the JSS 3 Teacher of the Judith Foundation School, Topland ordered some students of the institution including little Joy Chinecherem Mgbodi to lie face up under intense and highly excruciating rays of sunlight for a prolonged duration and concurrently inflicted grievous bodily injury on her both legs.
According to the victim’s mother, “the said Teacher abused her Teacher-Student privilege in subjecting her victim to violence, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment that can only obtain in the dark ages when life was nasty and brutish.”
Mrs. Chinasa Nwekeke, the mother of the victim in the letter further stated that “the School is an environment of learning where students should enjoy friendship, care and support from their teachers and not the reverse. Parents do not send their children to school to be killed but to learn. It is against this backdrop that we request you sir to set up a high powered team to investigate this serious act of misconduct by a staff of an academic institution operating in the state.”
When contacted, the lawyer of the victim; John Nwobodo Esq, said they’re seeking redress because the action of the school was a breach of the fundamental human right of the student.
He also said that the school after serving such punishment on the little student went further to dismiss her from the school after her mother asked question about the treatment meted on her daughter.
Efforts to reach Mr. Nnaji Friday, the proprietor of the school for comments didn’t yield a positive response.
When he picked the call by our correspondent, after introduction, he asked him to call him back after 10 minutes that he was driving. After several attempts to call him back, he picked up the call only to mutter; “I’m in a meeting please, call me back.”
