Lagos teacher knocks out little boy’s tooth in anger

A primary school teacher is now in trouble after she banged her pupil’s head on the table, knocking off one of his front teeth in the process. 

An aunt of the victim, identified as Mercychen, took to social media to narrate the incident, showing a picture of the five-year-old boy before and after the alleged assault.

Mercychen said the boy narrated that he submitted his exam script to the teacher and after she went through it, summoned him to her table to rewrite something.

The aunt said the boy must have written a wrong thing again as the teacher suddenly banged his head on the desk, knocking off a tooth, according to the narration the boy gave.

Blood reportedly gushed out and the teacher hurriedly took him out to take care of the injury together with some other teachers. 

The teacher reportedly warned the pupil to not mention the incident to her mother or else she would be waiting for him in class the next day.

The mother later escalated the matter to the school proprietress, who effectively handled the matter.

The proprietress, who was over 90 years old, reportedly begged the mother of the victim not to ruin the name of the school and promised that the salary of the teacher for November would be used to take care of the injured boy.

Read parts of Mercychen’s lengthy post below: 

“I’m not happy. I’ve been trying to overlook what happened today but the more I remember it, the more I feel sorry for my innocent nephew who was physically and brutally abused by his teacher today.

As I sat at the staircase to wait, My nephew climbed up the stairs and said he has something to tell me. He said his teacher removed his tooth. As he was still trying to explain how it happened, the Mom climbed up and took over.

When she got to school, the teachers blocked her at the gate and told her her son’s teeth was shaking and fell off. She said she was surprised because she was the one who brushed his teeth this morning and non of his teeth was shaking. she just believed them and picked her children.

On their way home. The son now told her to promise him not to ask his teacher what he’s about to tell her and she crossed her heart.

The boy told her that he submitted his exam script to his teacher. The teacher went through his script and told him to rewrite some things correctly. As he bent and was writing on the teacher’s table ( maybe he wrote it wrongly again) the teacher now hit his head on the table and his front tooth flew out. He said she quickly rushed him out as blood was gushing out and washed him up.

He said that the other teachers saw all that Happened and now tried to cover up.

He also said the teacher threatened him that if he tells his Mom what happened, he’ll meet her in school tomorrow…. That was why he begged his Mom not to ask his teacher.

I told the Mom to go there with the police tomorrow but I’m not sure if it’s within their jurisdiction to handle such cases. So I want to know the right authority to report this dastardly act .

My 5-year-old nephew must get justice. See how she disfigured his upper front dentition.

I need contacts to the right agency, please.

Couldn’t get his personal pics where he smiled opening his teeth. So had to use their group pics to show what his dentition looked like before the abuse.

In a follow-up post, Mercychen wrote:

“Here’s an update of a teacher’s brutality on my nephew.

My nephew woke up with dark swollen lips covered with bruises and was running serious temperature. So, My sister decided to go and report first to the school authority and to ask why they tried to cover the teacher up for such a wicked act.

She went to the proprietress office and reported the case; telling her that she wanted to take it to the police but because of the respect she has for the owner of the school, that’s why she’s here to let the school know her next line of action. The proprietress was shocked to hear what happened and summoned the teacher.

When the teacher got there and was asked what happened, she said she didn’t beat the boy that his tooth just fell off.

The grandma ( that’s what they call the proprietress. She’s 98) asked her,

How will you not touch a child and his tooth will remove? The teacher insisted that she didn’t touch the child. So grandma told her it’s better she says the truth as the mother is planning to take the case to another level. That she should at least own up and apologize. The teacher said my sister can take it to any level she wants that she doesn’t care!

My sister said at that point her head sparked and she flared up!

She began to mention the different agencies she has contacted, and that they are coming for the school.

That she has posted it on social media and the news has spread all over.

She said the moment she mentioned social media, Grandma began to shake and call for help. As My sis continued shouting on top of her voice, grandma s daughter ( the supervisor ) and other teachers rushed into the office and tried to calm her down.

Grandma told the daughter that the story has gotten to social media and immediately, the daughter sank into the nearest chair and shouted “oh My God!

Grandma told the daughter that the teacher still has the guts to tell my sister to take it to any level and Immediately the daughter said ” waaaat”?

Do you know the school name is at stake here?

Do you know they are going to shut down the school and arrest everybody? bla bla.. and everyone Started yelling at the teacher to apologize.

Grandma’s daughter asked her for the last time. Did you beat him or not? She now said, ehn… She beat him on his back not his head.

Grandma’s daughter said, how can you beat a child on the back and his tooth fell off?. so, she told them to give her a few minutes. She went to my nephew’s class, came back and asked the teacher why?

That she just asked Georgewells classmates now what happened yesterday and they all said the teacher hit his head on the table and his tooth flew out and landed on another boys book.

Immediately she and other teachers began to beg my sister. Grandma was already crying that her school is in trouble. My sis said she became afraid for Grandma. Let the 98yrs old woman not go and give up. so she told Grandma not to worry that she won’t involve the school, only the teacher.

They continued to beg my sister and told her to take the son to the hospital that the teacher will fute the bill from her Nov salary. That they’ll deduct whatever the bill comes to from her salary before handing it to her. And my sister left.

That was how it all went yesterday.

Thanks guys for your love and support.

We appreciate.”