An Egyptian court has sentenced a teacher to six years in prison for kicking a schoolboy to death after he failed to do his homework, according to a court official.

Haitham Nabil Abdel Hamid, the 23-year-old maths teacher, was convicted of manslaughter after kicking 11-year-old Islam Amro Badr in the stomach in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria in October.

The boy fainted and died shortly after in hospital, with several students saying they saw Abdel Hamid kick Badr.

A coroner testified in court that Badr had four broken ribs, Egypt's Al-Masry al-Yom newspaper reported earlier this week, amid emotional scenes in court from the boy's family.

The incident has attracted public attention to the failings of Egypt's state education system in which young, inexperienced and under-resourced teachers often struggle to control classes of up to 100 children.

The teacher's lawyer was quoted as saying that, "Hitting (a child) is not banned in schools and my client did not break the law."

Abdel Hamid said he only meant to discipline his pupil and did not mean to hurt anyone.

Comments (1)

barbarism!
written by m, August 07, 2009

this is ...... very very bad how can teacher beat student? you, arabians, are barbarians! in which centure live your country? this teacher must be all life in prison and must pay for this killing familys student... if not, will have more sa
me cases !
barbarians..... you are all is barbarians! let God help your kids and womans!

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