A UK court has heard how a teacher struck a six-year-old pupil with a ruler so hard that it broke over his head.

 

Rina Khan was appearing before a court in Birmingham charged with physically assaulting the young child as well as calling him a ‘muppet’ after getting a math problem wrong during class.

 

The child’s representative in court, Peter Arnold, said that the incident had left the little boy feeling ‘sad and scared’.

 

In disturbing evidence given by a teaching assistant who had witnessed the shocking incident, she described hearing 41-year-old Khan shouting at the boy, before looking up to see ‘a piece of ruler flying across the room’.

 

 

Khan has denied the charge of child cruelty and common assault levelled against her, claiming that she only ‘tapped’ the boy on the head, and that the ruler breaking was not a result of force by her.

 

This latest story comes just weeks after it was reported that a teacher in the US was being charged with child abuse after a video emerged of him dragging a pupil into the school swimming pool by her arms as she protested.

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