A Ratchaburi mother has filed a complaint with the police, accusing a school director of smacking her sevenyearold son in the ear causing bleeding and injuries.
Sasiwimol Trakoolchokedee said that Chalerm Thepsawas, director of Jom Bueng school in Ratchaburi's Jom Bueng district, hit her son in the ear with his palm, and poked his chest hard with a stick three times before an assembly of 700 students.
The mother, 30, produced a doctor's checkup result saying her son bled in his right ear and could not hear clearly. He also sustained bruises to his chest.
She turned down Bt10,000 offered by Chalerm in compensation, out of a Bt300,000 he claimed she had demanded from him.
Speaking to police, Chalerm said he was investigating a complaint by other teachers that the unnamed boy threw a piece of rubber at a classmate's eye, and that he only pushed the boy's right shoulder.
"Perhaps he was not standing firmly and fell on the floor," he added.
When the boy stood up, Chalerm said he poked a stick lightly on his chest because his clothes were dirty, and gave him a lecture. The mother claimed that her son was poked hard three times, before Chalerm said loudly: "I don't like dirty kids."
She vowed to bring the case to an area education office and the Paveena Hongsakul Foundation, while Chalerm said he had no choice but to let the case proceed as, he said he had done nothing wrong.