The headmaster of a middle school in the northern province of Hung Yen has been temporarily suspended from work, as it was learned that the school board took no action for an entire week after one of its female students was assaulted right in the classroom by her classmates.
The form teacher of the class where the bullied student was studying has also been transferred to another post, the Hung Yen education department said on Saturday, after a working session with leaders of the Phu Ung Middle School earlier the same day.
The decisions were made shortly after a video surfaced on Friday on social media of a girl being stripped of her clothes and brutally beaten by five female students. The attackers grabbed her hairs and kicked her head, according to the minutes-long footage.
Many other students of the class were seen in the video watching the extremely violent bullying without taking any action.
While the footage, filmed by a student, was only posted yesterday, it has been verified that the assault took place on March 22. It appears that the school managers had been in the dark about the issue for an entire week.
It was not until Saturday morning that the Hung Yen education department confirmed that the incident took place at Phu Ung Middle School.
The victim was beaten so brutally that she had to be hospitalized and was still receiving treatment as of Saturday morning.
Some students of the class told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that the girl comes from a needy family and is always timid in class, so she frequently falls victim to bullies.
According to her classmates, the girl had been beaten by her peers many times before.
The family of the victim said they have called on police to handle the matter.
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