Struck student seeks damages for ruptured eardrum

Thursday, May 29, 2014

DKAR: Seventeen-year-old Hendrika Morris, who was struck across the right cheek by her teacher allegedly leaving her with a damaged eardrum, is seeking recourse for the 2007 incident.

Morris, who was a Standard Four student at D’Kar Primary School at the time, told Mmegi that she received three slaps on the cheek for giving a wrong answer to a Mathematic problem in class.

She said after the incident she noticed she was bleeding from the right ear adding that some of her classmates advised her to inform her mother what had happened in class.

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