The department also said that it wants to reassure parents that the safety of pupils in school was its ‘absolute priority’ and added that any member of staff with a criminal conviction for assaulting a child would be barred from working in Island schools.
This week a 55-year-old woman, who the JEP has chosen not to name to protect the identity of the victim, was sentenced to 100 hours’ community service – the equivalent of four months in prison – for twice assaulting the boy. The assaults included forcefully holding him down on a stool and wiping his own saliva on his face before later forcing him to walk by pushing the back of his legs.
The Education Department said that it was extremely sorry to the young boy and his family and stressed mechanisms were being put in place to support them.
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