Sudáfrica: Gauteng Education offers counselling to alleged molested learners

Sudáfrica/Octubre de 2017/Fuente: IOL

Resumen:

El Departamento de Educación de Gauteng (GDE, por sus siglas en inglés) confirma que está ofreciendo consejería a estudiantes asaltados sexualmente por un presunto patrullero escolar.

Esto sigue a los informes de que 54 estudiantes habían sido asaltados por un patrullero erudito masculino en una escuela primaria en Soweto.

MEC Panyaza Lesufi eliminó al director de la escuela y a su equipo administrativo con efecto inmediato.

En un comunicado, el departamento dijo: «Esto es necesario por la seriedad de las acusaciones de asalto sexual de unos 54 estudiantes, por parte de un Patrullero Académico en la escuela, que fue arrestado posteriormente el lunes 9 de octubre de 2017.»

Desde entonces, el patrullero ha aparecido en el Tribunal de Justicia de Protea el miércoles 11 de octubre de 2017 y se encuentra bajo custodia policial para comparecer el miércoles 18 de octubre de 2017. «

«Pronto nos comprometeremos con el Consejo de Administración de la escuela para establecer los motivos por los que no deberían disolverse», dijo el portavoz de la GDE, Steve Mabona.

The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) confirms that it is offering counselling to learners sexually assaulted by an alleged scholar patroller.

This follows reports that 54 learners had been assaulted by a male scholar patroller in a primary school in Soweto.

MEC Panyaza Lesufi removed the school’s principal and her management team with immediate effect.

In a statement, the department said: “This is necessitated by the seriousness of the allegations of sexual assault of about 54 learners, by a Scholar Patroller at the school, who was subsequently arrested on Monday, 09 October 2017. «

The patroller has since appeared at the Protea Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, 11 October 2017 and is remanded in police custody to appear on Wednesday, 18 October 2017.”

“We will soon engage with the School Governing Body to establish reasons why they should not be dissolved,” said the GDE spokesperson Steve Mabona.

An independent body has been appointed to investigate all allegations levelled against the Principal and her Management.

Mabona said that the department was satisfied with counselling the process conducted by a Multi-Discipline Team, made up of GDE officials,
Departments of Social Development, Health and the Teddy Bear Clinic.

«We remain grateful to all stakeholders especially the Teddy Bear Clinic and our Psycho Social Support Services. I am grateful that the department has prioritised this matter and we will leave no stone unturned,” said Lesufi.

Lesufi later took to Twitter and confirmed that the number of learners who were allegedly sexually assaulted by the patroller guard at the school in Soweto had increased to 83.

Fuente: https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/gauteng-education-offers-counselling-to-alleged-molested-learners-11560839