By Brenda Chidinma Imo-Eze
A 15-yr-old Senior Secondary School Student, Chukwudolue Chimobi has dragged her school, St. Theresa Catholic Church, Okpugwu, Abakaliki to Court demanding for 2million naira for mental and physical damage melted on her.
The student filed the suit after she was brutally flogged and expelled from school following her interference in the case of a junior student and her colleague.
In suit number MAB/821/2023, the student, represented by her mother, Mrs. Chukwuduloue Chinonso, claims that her daughter, who served as the school’s game prefect, was brutally flogged by her teacher, Chioma Mmuo, and the school’s Principal, Reverend Sister Uchenna Esther Nwoba.
Revealing that on Thursday, May 25,2023, a student reported his colleague to Chimobi, that while he was always sleeping in class, his colleague always put paper in his mouth.Chimobi intervened, leading to a confrontation and her subsequent punishment by the school authority.
The defendants named in the lawsuit include Principal Reverend Sister Uchenna Nwoba (1st Defendant), Chioma Mmuo (2nd Defendant), Augustine Awuro (3rd Defendant), and Okemiri Peter (4th Defendant).
In her summons, the plaintiff, Chimobi, alleges that on Friday, May 26, 2023, the 2nd Defendant, Chioma Muo, along with the junior student, came to her classroom. Without conducting any investigation, Chioma Muo allegedly summoned Chimobi and instructed her to lie on a table, where she was then subjected to 17 strokes of the cane by four male students, leaving her body covered in bruises.
When the plaintiff’s mother, Chinonso, inquired about the incident upon Chimobi’s return home, she alleges that she was also physically assaulted, dehumanized, and ridiculed by the 3rd and 4th Defendants, Augustine Awuro and Okemiri Peter.
Chimobi claims that her attempts to communicate with the school’s Principal, Reverend Sister Nwoba, were met with indifference. The Principal purportedly did not provide satisfactory explanations for the assault but instead suspended two of Chimobi’s classmates involved in the incident and expelled Chimobi, causing her to miss her end-of-term examinations.
The plantiff further alleged that the beating she got that day resulted in bruises and life-threatening scars, leaving her traumatized.
Consequently, she demands that the defendants pay her ₦2 million in compensation for the physical and psychological suffering, as well as the degrading treatment she allegedly endured.
Additionally, she is requesting that the 2nd Defendant be responsible for and continue to cover the ₦50,000 medical expenses incurred by the Plaintiff.
The case was brought before the Abakaliki Magistrate Court and has been adjourned to September 28, 2023 for further proceedings
That girl must be stupid u should abide by the rules and regulations guiding the school and not in your own way
That girl must be stupid u should abide by the rules and regulations guiding the school and not in your own way
Some of this Rev sister’s are very wicked, don’t have remorse and sympathy for children. I think someone who hasn’t a child shouldn’t head a school. Because only a Mother knows how it is to understand how to take care of children via training a d whataviews.
I think you didn’t get it right. You would have rather say that before someone is handed over the caring of children they should be well trained especially in how to safeguard the children and imbibe the rules of safeguarding. They should also know that every child has right and freedom like they themselves.
In all sincerity Sister didn’t handle the matter rightly but that doesn’t mean that all the Rev Sisters are like her. They should even pay more than the price demanded because emotional abuse cannot be undone easily like that except with the aid of a good psychologist. Thanks.