{"id":999435,"date":"2022-02-21T23:28:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T23:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/21\/principal-attacked-by-parents-after-teacher-rapes-14-year-old-girl\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T23:28:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T23:28:15","slug":"principal-attacked-by-parents-after-teacher-rapes-14-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/21\/principal-attacked-by-parents-after-teacher-rapes-14-year-old-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Principal attacked by parents after teacher rapes 14-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After being detained for allegedly raping a 14-year-old child, a 36-year-old high school teacher from northern KwaZulu-Natal appeared in court on Monday.<\/p>\n

Col Thembeka Mbele, a spokesperson for the KwaZulu-Natal police, said the student was allegedly raped at school on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe incident was reported to the police, and the case was sent to the family violence, child protection, and sexual offenses unit for further investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the suspect was kept in jail until a formal bail application was filed on February 28.<\/p>\n

The governing council apologized for not informing parents \u201cabout the painful circumstances\u201d that occurred at the school on Friday in a letter on the school\u2019s letterhead addressed to parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere aren\u2019t enough words to express our amazement and disbelief. We regret to report that a departmental educator allegedly sexually assaulted a student on Friday during school hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to the letter, the victim\u2019s parents were notified right away.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe learner was transferred to the hospital crisis center with the help and cooperation of the school psychologist.\u201d<\/p>\n

The instructor had been taken from the school by police, according to the letter, and the problem had been reported to the provincial education department.<\/p>\n

\u201cA thorough examination is currently underway.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reaction to the incident was \u201cviolent and intense, and the principal was also attacked,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s understandable that the community was outraged by the incident. Two counsellors have been appointed to help the family, staff, and students who require assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tensions were high outside the school and the court on Monday as parents, members of the ANC, and supporters protested the teacher\u2019s rape claim.<\/p>\n

Children are sent to school to be educated and to grow into successful adults; they are not sent to school to be abused. It\u2019s unfortunate that this adolescent went through such a traumatic experience in the hands of someone her parents and school trusted with her safety.<\/p>\n

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After being detained for allegedly raping a 14-year-old child, a 36-year-old high school teacher from northern KwaZulu-Natal appeared in court on Monday. Col Thembeka Mbele, a spokesperson for the KwaZulu-Natal police, said the student was allegedly raped at school on Friday. \u201cThe incident was reported to the police, and the case was sent to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":999436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}