Female teacher suspended for sexually harassing student

Protests held against child and sexual abuse in 2020 | Photo: Sun

Malé, Maldives — Education Ministry has informed that a female teacher from the north of Maldives has been suspended from school for sending nude pictures to a 16 year old student.

Speaking to local media outlets, Education Ministry informed that as soon as they were reportes of the issue, they ordered the teacher to be removed from school. After Police started investigating the matter, she was suspended from the school.

Sources inform that the teacher had previously also sexually assaulted several students from the school.

The accused teacher is a married woman from another island who was living at her husband’s island. However, as soon as the islanders learned that she has been sexually assaulting students, she was outcasted and sent off from the island.

The female teacher has not been arrested yet.