KUWAIT CITY, June 9: The Misde-meanor Court of Appeals Wednesday acquitted the headmistress of a secondary school for girls and a teacher of the same school. They had been charged with beating, verbally abusing and detaining a schoolgirl.
The verdict of a lower court had found both persons guilty but refrained from issuing a verdict against them.
Case papers indicate — according to the story of the victim — the teacher saw her in the school corridor and started beating her, this is in addition to verbal abuse.
Following this the victim submitted to the court a medical report showing injuries on her body.
The student added the headmistress also ordered her to be ‘detained’ inside the classroom.
During interrogation the teacher denied the allegation. She added the girl is not the student of the school but was studying in a neighboring school.
She added this girl always created problems for students of their school. The headmistress also denied the accusation that she had ordered the student’s detention in the classroom.
In court, the attorney Zaid Al-Khabbaz who defended the headmistress told the court his client had not committed a mistake. He added the victim had fabricated the case against her.
He went on to say the victim always bunked class in her school and trespassed into the school where his client is the headmistress and requested the court to listen to the testimony of several students who affirmed his defense.
The session was presided over by Judge Abdullah Al-Sane.