NOT only was he punched repeatedly by a peer, a secondary school student in Kuching, Sarawak, was caned and forced to write a note admitting his mistake, China Press reported.
Angered at how the case was handled, the boy’s mother shared the incident on social media and lodged a police report.
The incident took place on March 12 when another student allegedly grabbed her son’s leg and caused him to fall.
The victim’s mother said the aggressor then sat on top of her son before raining blows on his head, arms and chest, treating him like “a punching bag”.
She claimed that the disciplinary teacher caned both her son and the bully, made them write admissions of guilt and told them to pull weeds under the hot sun as punishment.
Upset, the mother went to the school to enquire about the matter but was told that she could make a police report if she was dissatisfied at how the incident was handled.
She then took her son to the police station and had him undergo a medical examination.
When contacted, Padawan district police chief Supt Mohd Irwan Hafiz confirmed the case, adding that the alleged bully had been called in to give a statement.
He said police were investigating the case under Section 323 of the Penal Code for voluntarily causing hurt and Section 506 for criminal intimidation.
> The daily also reported that a teenager in Henan, China, left doctors shocked after a cyst pushed his wisdom tooth towards his eye socket.
Xiao Ze, 15, was thought to have merely gained weight when his mother noticed swelling on the left side of his face.
But over time, the boy’s face became increasingly asymmetrical and his mouth began to tilt.
Worried, his mother took him to the hospital.
A CT scan later showed a wisdom tooth in his upper jaw was pushed upwards by what is known as a dentigerous cyst, which is a cyst that forms around an unerupted tooth.
The tooth was successfully removed via surgery.
While it was rare for wisdom tooth to grow upwards into the eye socket, it was more common to grow into the nasal cavity or into the jaw.
If left untreated, the cyst could continue to expand and compress surrounding nerves, potentially causing facial distortion, vision problems or infections.
The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
