https://qr.ae/pyvCWZWhat did you read today that made you sad?In April, a 13-year-old teenager escaped from special school No. 124 in Yekaterinburg, Russia, and said he was raped. He said that a group of students subjected other pupils to physical and sexual violence. The rapes were recorded on video.
Special school No. 124 in Yekaterinburg.
According to the boy, one of the teachers taught the kids "prison rules" and initiated "comrades' courts", where the group was collectively deciding how to "punish" the guilty. Being raped by other kids was a “prison rules” punishment.
Principal of the special school Natalya Poddubnaya knew about the bullying and violence, but did not take action - on the contrary, she humiliated the victims.
When the story got out, a court case was opened against 2 young offenders. The school principal simply resigned “on her own volition”.
That’s not the end.
An advocate asked for the boy to be moved to another boarding school. On Wednesday, the court refused this request.
After the incident became public, the boy returned home. Now he has to go back to the same boarding school.
The reason why, it’s a special boarding school for kids 11–18 with deviant behavior: underage youngsters who committed crimes or these who have learning difficulties.
The boy was sentenced to 3 years (maximum term for underage kids) of a special boarding school. He arrived in March 2022 (age 12) and must stay there until 2025.
Advocates asked for the boy to be moved to another school, but the court refused. He must go back to the same school.
The option of early release is available, but it must be done by order of the court, and the court saw no need for that.
Imagine that: The boy was caught shoplifting and sent to the special school for re-education, and instead, he gets raped, and not just raped, but systematically tortured.
A rape isn’t just a rape in a Russian prison: it’s lowering the person who is raped into the cast of “untouchables”, the lowest of the low. No one talks to them, no one befriends them. They are ordered around, pushed, kicked, beaten. Not allowed to seat anywhere but at the certain table, given the worst jobs, the last to get food. Not allowed to raise their voices, heads, or make eye contact. And the rapes can continue; it’s part of this cast.
Not only these things are happening in a special school, the goal of which is to help kids learn and develop, and rehabilitate, but the educators promote and support the “prison rules”.
People are shocked by cruelty that Russian soldiers show in Ukraine to local civilians and Ukrainian POWs. They wonder where such cruelty comes from. It comes from the Russian schools and Russian educators.
It starts in kindergartens, continues at schools and lasts all the way: anyone in a position of authority feels the right to abuse and bully those who can’t fight back. For many kids, they get the same maltreatment at home.
And no one even cares.
[ Bericht 0% gewijzigd door slashdotter3 op 20-05-2023 10:25:33 ]