Teacher probed after boy contracts disease
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A TEACHER in central China’s Hubei Province is under investigation after a seven-year-old boy alleged that he had been sexually assaulting him for six months.
The case only came to light after the boy was diagnosed with venereal disease.
The 31-year-old teacher of a primary school in rural Wuxue City has been told to stay at home after the boy identified him from pictures and claimed that two of his classmates also went through the same ordeal.
The boy told his mother after she found some fleshy growths around his hip in Guangzhou, where she works as a migrant worker.
The teacher would buy snacks for the boy and ask him to wait near the school toilet. “The teacher gave me snacks first and then asked me to crouch. He squatted behind me, usually near in toilet or nearby grove,” the boy told police yesterday.
Medical tests revealed that the boy had anal sex within three months and had contracted venereal warts from HPV (human papillomavirus) infection. HPV can be contracted through sexual contact and can lead to genital warts and disease like cancer.
The mother said she had reported the incident to Wuxue police last Thursday, but they did not act on it until she spoke to a Hangzhou-based radio station last Saturday. The radio station said the boy was scheduled to undergo medico-legal examination and meet the teacher he accused later yesterday.
A girl, one of other two classmates the boy alleged the teacher had sex with, could not be reached for comments, while another boy denied he was abused.
Police have promised to solve the case within 10 days.
Psychologists and venereal disease experts said the boy may likely be tormented with it for life.
The boy’s mother has to change the dressings on the infected areas every four hours.
Their home has also been disinfected to prevent any further spread of the disease, the Hangzhou radio station reported.
A deputy headmaster said the teacher had been in the profession for 10 years. The school has 146 students and 12 teachers. Most of the students are “left-behind” children, who are taken care of by relatives while their parents work in big cities.
The migrant population in China has increased from 6 million in 1980 to 260 million last year. It has resulted in large numbers of “left-behind children,” who now number about 60 million.
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