"Anna" <annaliddell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23618769-5012754,00.html
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> At least 16 schoolgirls were made to strip naked by their teachers in
> eastern India after one student complained she had lost her pocket
> money.
>
> Officials said the girls in Jharkhand state were taken to a room and
> strip-searched one by one at the weekend, while teachers looked for
> the missing money, which was a little over a dollar, Ratan Kumar, a
> senior police officer said from Dhanbad.
>
> "The order to strip and search the girls was not fair,'' Officer
> Kumar said.
>
> Many students were crying and begged for mercy, police said.
>
> On Tuesday, hundreds of people demonstrated in front of the school and
> students boycotted classes demanding immediate action.
>
> Five teachers and the school principal have gone on leave, police
> said.
>
> Although banned, corporal punishment is widely used to discipline
> children in Indian schools.
>
> Last September, a seven-year-old girl was made to strip naked and
> stand on her desk by her teacher in a New Delhi school for not
> completing her homework, while other students were asked to boo her.
>
> Last year, a government study backed by the United Nations Children's
> Fund said two-thirds of children in India are physically abused,
> mostly at home and in schools
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