Maths tutor gets 4 days' jail for assaulting 8-year-old after losing his cool over girl's incorrect answers

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SINGAPORE — Frustrated by his eight-year-old student’s inability to answer his questions correctly, a mathematics tutor lost his cool and punched the girl after scolding her.

On Wednesday , Teo Thian Hoe, 56, was sentenced by a district court to four days’ jail, which he will begin serving on Nov 7.

While scolding the girl, Teo flicked her left forearm using his fingers and punched her left arm twice.All these actions had caused the girl to cry out in pain, said DPP Goh, who added that some of this conduct had been captured by the home’s surveillance camera. On the afternoon of March 22, Teo repeated his same methods of punishment when the girl again failed to answer his questions correctly.He eventually confronted the older man after he witnessed what Teo had done to his daughter through the surveillance footage.

The attacks were also “entirely unprovoked” and Teo had positioned himself in the room in such a way that the girl could not evade him.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

 

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