The lawyer emphasized that the use of physical force by a teacher against a young student is unacceptable.
According to him, in this case there are two aspects: disciplinary and pedagogical and criminal.
“The employer must evaluate the teacher’s actions by bringing them to disciplinary liability - from warning to dismissal,” notes Solovyov.
As for criminal liability, as the expert added, it all depends on the harm to health that was caused to the child.
“If the harm caused cannot be qualified under the Criminal Code, then the teacher may be brought to administrative responsibility under Art. 6.1.1 Code of Administrative Offenses - beating or committing other violent acts that caused physical pain, but did not entail the consequences specified in Art. 115 of the Criminal Code, if these actions do not contain a criminal offense,” he explained.
The expert also added that if harm to health is established by medical examinations and documents, then the teacher can be prosecuted for beatings or intentionally causing minor harm to health or torturing a minor.
“The age of the victim in this case will be an aggravating circumstance. In any case, the punishment should be such as to fulfill the function of prevention - to prevent repetition of such actions and to deter other teachers from showing unjustified cruelty towards young students,” concluded RT’s interlocutor.
Earlier it became known that in Asbest, a teacher pricked the hand of a nine-year-old schoolboy with a compass because he accidentally scratched a classmate with it.