Teacher in Mitú, Vaupés, dismissed for the suicide of an indigenous student

For the suicide of an indigenous student in Mitú, Vaupés, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation sanctioned a teacher with dismissal and inability for ten years in a second instance judgment.

The ill-treatment and allegations occurred at the Pueblo Nuevo Community Educational Institution in Mitú, Vaupés, where Professor Elizabeth Montaña Hernández infringed mental suffering on a minor, as established by the Public Prosecutor's Office.

According to what the Attorney General's Office was able to establish, the teacher had verbally assaulted and punished her student, identified as Cristian David Arango Montaña. The above, due to an alleged theft of fuel that occurred inside the institution.

Apparently, without having any evidence or arguments, the teacher pointed to the indigenous student as a thief and also used other demeaning words. He also asked him to withdraw from the Pueblo Nuevo Community Educational Institution.

After that situation that occurred at the school where the minor was studying, he made the decision to take his own life.

According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, after the respective investigations it was possible to establish the teacher caused severe psychological damage to the minor, which led to the indigenous student subsequently taking the fatal decision.

“The watchdog demonstrated that the civil servant had a psychological impact on the young person, using discriminatory terms and inappropriate statements without any justification against him,” said the Attorney General's Office.

To jail teacher accused of abusing a child in the south of Bogotá

After the case of a five-year-old boy, whose mother reported that he had been the victim of sexual abuse by a teacher at the Nuevo Chile school, in the south of Bogotá, was heard, and which ended in a strong protest by students where there were disturbances and damage to the educational institution, a judge from the Republic sent the imprisonment of the person responsible.

The official also indicated that the arrest took place this week and that once he was placed at the disposal of the judicial authorities, the corresponding criminal proceedings were initiated in this case.

The director of the Public Prosecutor's Section in the Colombian capital added that there was enough evidence to prove that the accused had perpetrated these crimes, and that despite this, he did not accept his guilt.

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