Tayug teacher faces abuse charges
TAYUG–A school teacher here is facing cases of child abuse in violation of Republic Act 7160, or the Child Abuse Act, after a complaint was filed by the police on July 7 before the Provincial Prosecutors Office here.
The complaint, signed by Chief Inspector Fidel Junio, chief of Police of Tayug, was filed against Gloria Juanitez Callejo, 60, a science teacher, who was accused by 40 of her pupils of caning them after they got low scores in the science quiz she gave them in the morning of July 1.
Docketed as NPS 1-018-INV G 00185, the complaint was based on sworn statements executed by 10 of the students and their parents, and medical certificates on the injuries sustained by the pupils issued by a doctor of the Eastern Pangasinan District Hospital (EPDH) and the hospital records officer.
In their sworn statements before SPO1 Jollie Tinozo, investigator of the case, the pupils said that they took the science quiz given by Callejo, a resident of Barangay A in Tayug, at 10:30 a.m. of July 1 and were made to check the results immediately thereafter.
After determining that only six pupils passed the test, Callejo called those who did not pass one by one in front of the class and began caning them at the back of their legs using a stick, measuring 40 inches long and two inches thick.
The pupils said that they were caned corresponding to their respective number of mistakes in the quiz; thus more mistakes, the more beatings.
The abused pupils went home crying and this alarmed their parents who immediately brought their children to the police at 1:00 p.m. of July 1 upon being told of the school incident.
The pupils were brought to the EPDH for medical examination. The medical certificates signed by Dr Roger Peralta showed that most of the children suffered “erythema on both legs secondary to caning”.
One girl suffered “erythema on both legs in posterior aspect secondary to caning”. Still another girl suffered erythema on the left and right legs and back.
Callejo is now also being investigated by a team created by Superintendent Viraluz Raguindin of Pangasinan II School Division.
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