Felicia Wenn is accused of hitting a seven-year-old pupil at St Joseph’s special school in Montana with a plastic pipe.
|||Cape Town - A teacher accused of assaulting one of her pupils appeared briefly in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
Felicia Wenn, 54, appeared on a charge of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
The case was postponed until September 10 for a regional court date.
Wenn was scheduled to appear before a disciplinary hearing of the Western Cape Education Department on July 22, but resigned.
At the time, department spokesman Paddy Attwell said the teacher had allegedly hit a seven-year-old pupil at St Joseph’s special school in Montana with a plastic pipe on May 23.
She had been charged with serious misconduct.
The department regarded her resignation as a “deemed dismissal” in terms of the Employment of Educators Act. “In terms of the act, education departments may deem employees to have been dismissed if they resign after being charged and before the disciplinary process has been completed,” Attwell said.
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