A boy was beaten to death by his teacher at St valerian Akpaka School, Onitsha.
The Catholic priest in charge of the school gave the family 200k naira, told them to bury the child and forget about his case
Police did not involved and the child Izuchukwu Onwualu was buried.
Izuchukwu David Onwualu, an 11-year-old JSS 1 student at St. Valerian Catholic School in Onitsha, Anambra State, allegedly died after mistreatment by a female elementary science teacher at the school. But the school, in an attempt to cover up the case, gave the boy’s father some money and hurriedly buried the boy.
Dubem Onwualu Christopher, the deceased’s father, said he took his son to school on a motorcycle on Tuesday morning.
Newsglobal gathered that the teacher was angry because he did not do his assignment.
When she was flogging him, she did not know he would hit his head on the wall. She flogged him, but he was not crying, so she kept flogging him to make sure he cried. During the flogging, he broke free and hit his head on the wall.”
Rev Father Ezeanyi Victor, the school proprietor, two other priests, staff members and a few students of the school visited David’s residence to console his family and bury him, Onwualu Ifeanyi Emmanuel, a member of the family
Despite the school’s argument, they offered a N200,000 compensation to the family, the boy’s father said.
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