Teacher allegedly cuts boy's tongue

[IRiSHMaFIA]

ROME - (AP) A novice teacher in Milan is under criminal investigation for allegedly using scissors to cut the tongue of a second-grader for talking in class, Italian news agencies said Thursday. The 7-year-old boy, who has not been publicly identified, needed six stitches in his tongue from the Feb. 20 incident, said Piero Porciani, a lawyer for the child's parents, a Tunisian couple.

The teacher, 22, was being investigated for suspected voluntary harm of the boy, the ANSA news agency said.

The office of Milan prosecutor Marco Ghezzi said he wasn't there and couldn't give out any information about an investigation.

Porciani told The Associated Press by telephone from Milan that the teacher has been suspended from the school while the incident is investigated.

The mother has said in TV interviews that her son is exhibiting a fear of knives in the kitchen after his tongue was cut.

"He's not eating, he's not sleeping, he doesn't want to go school. He cries a lot because of the pain," Porciani said.

Italian news reports said the teacher, who was assisting the main instructor, repeatedly asked the child to be quiet when her colleague left the classroom briefly.

When the boy continued to talk and move about the classroom, the teacher allegedly told the child she would take scissors to his tongue, then told him to stick out his tongue when he refused to quiet down.

"It's an absolutely unjustifiable act that calls for zero tolerance," said Anna Maria Dominici, the school superintendent for Lombardy, the region that includes Milan.

According to Porciani, the teacher, who was not identified, said she didn't mean to cut the tongue.

Newspapers said the teacher claimed she was only joking by talking about using the scissors.

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If the psycho bitch was only joking then how did his tongue get cut The sicko should be jailed and never be allowed near children again as far as I'm concerned. That poor child is probably going to be traumatized for years after this happening.

[Skylace]

For fuck sake! That woman should never be allowed around children again.

You're spot on Irish when you say that if she was only joking then his tongue shouldn't have been cut.

They are plenty of other ways to handle this type of situation.

[Aja]

OMG poor kid .....

the teacher, who was not identified, said she didn't mean to cut the tongue.

FFS what did she mean to do then ?????

[Marcella-FL]

"I didn't mean to cut him but to cut his tongue completely off ... and I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you pesky kids!"

True she shouldn't have done it but I can see her resorting to it the way kids act nowadays! (I imagine kids in Italy are even worse!) I swear I don't know how teachers handle it - I go out of my tree somedays with MY 4!

[Skylace]

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