Teacher in court after whacking boy on the bare
TEACHER WHACKED SCHOOLBOY WITH SHOE
Trial hears Winifred Holtby tutor told pupil to
remove trousers before ‘corporal punishment beating’
A TEACHER indecently
assaulted a pupil during a “corporal punishment” beating, a trial has heard.
Kevin Shaw, 55, is alleged
to have “whacked” the boy with a shoe on his bare buttocks after ordering him
to bend over in a store room at Winifred Holtby secondary school in Bransholme
in the 1990s.
Mr Shaw, of Perth Street
West, west Hull, is on trial at Hull Crown Court and denies a single charge of
indecent assault.
Prosecutors say there was a
“sexual element” to the beating allegedly administered by the geography teacher
for bad behaviour.
Nigel Clive, prosecuting,
said when Mr Shaw was interviewed by police in February last year, he “denied
the sexual element but did accept he had administered some form of corporal
punishment to about five or six boys over his teaching career”.
He said he may have taught
the complainant, but “denied anything like this happened”.
Opening the case to a jury
of eight women and four men on Wednesday, Mr Clive said the alleged incident
happened after the boy had left a class for “misbehaving”, and was told to see
Mr Shaw “when everybody had gone”.
The prosecutor said Mr Shaw
gave the teenager “three options”.
Mr Clive said these were:
“Firstly, that he could be placed on report. Secondly, that his parents could
be informed.
“Or thirdly, this defendant
could deal with it in a more summary fashion, and strike him ten times across
his buttocks.”
Mr Clive said the boy chose
the third option, not wanting to be placed on report and because he “didn’t
want his parents to find out”.
“The defendant, upon
hearing this, locked the classroom door,” Mr Clive said. “Again, members of the
jury, the prosecution say this gives you an insight into what was about to
occur, an indication of the indecency that was about to transpire.”
The pupil was taken into an
adjoining store room and was “made to bend over at the waist”, the court heard.
Mr Clive said: “After two
strikes with a shoe to his buttocks, the complainant said it was far too
painful.”
He was dreading the
prospect of another eight strikes, Mr Clive said, so “agreed to remove his
trousers and underpants, because the defendant told him he could either have
ten strikes to his trouser bottom, or five strikes if the trousers and
underwear were removed”.
Mr Shaw is then alleged to
have hit the boy two strikes on his bare buttocks, but the second “was so
forceful the complainant fell to the ground, and the complainant at that point
begged for this defendant to stop, and he did”, the prosecutor said.
The boy then got dressed and
left the store room, with Mr Shaw telling him “it was all dealt with and he was
free to leave”, the court heard.
A video recording of the
complainant’s police interview was played to the jury, in which he said he had
been “causing trouble”.
The man said after Mr Shaw
had locked the classroom and told him to go in the store room, “He said he was
gonna hit me across my backside and said ‘You can have ten, or if you take your
trousers off you will have five.’
“I was embarrassed and
stuff, so I said ten. Then he started to hit me.
“He asked me to bend over
and then he hit me. It hurt and he hit me again and I kind of fell forward and
I wanted to stop. I was crying.
“He then said it will be
over quicker if you take your trousers down. So I stood up, turned round. He
made me face him.
“I took my trousers down.
He then said ‘And your pants as well,’ so I took my pants down.
“He asked me to turn round
and bend over again and he hit me again and again.
“I fell again and I was
crying. I asked him to stop. I couldn’t take any more.”
Mr Clive said the
complainant had told a friend and his wife before reporting the matter to
police in February last year.
He told the jury they would
have to decide if there was a sexual element to what happened, “if you are
satisfied some corporal punishment took place”.
The trial continues.
As reported in Hull Daily
Mail,29 August 2019.
Shaw was subsequently found guilty
and sentenced to 15 months in prison.
Picture credit: Darrien.
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