Renuka Shahane put out a post on Facebook last night slamming schools, particularly international schools, for breaching safety rules. After a seven-year-old boy was murdered, with his body dumped in the school washroom by the school’s bus conductor, the actress called the whole incident “horrifying”.
On Friday morning, a seven-year-old boy was found dead with his throat slit outside the washroom of Ryan International School’s Sohna Road branch in Gurugram. The police arrested the bus conductor of the school, Ashok of Ghamroj village that evening. Reportedly, he was inside the washroom when he spotted the boy and pulled him inside in an attempt to sexually assault him. But he got nervous when the child raised an alarm, and thus slit his throat.
“How do we make things safe for our kids? Parents drop their kids to school with the trust that our kids will be safe, protected within these walls of learning. But incident after incident points to laxity about the security of our kids despite the high fees in many “International” schools,” Shahane wrote.
She further called out the school’s breaching of safety rules:
“1) That the bus conductor or driver were allowed to use the same washroom as the kids.
2) The accused was allowed to carry a knife inside the school.
3) There was no female attendant from the school outside the washroom.
4) When the child screamed there was no one to help immediately.
5) The school management tried to cover up the crime
6) There was a huge breach in the school wall; no doubt a huge risk to the security of the school”
She further asserted that the trustees of the schools should be held accountable considering they let the sexual predator to continue to work despite several complaints in the past. “Sexual abuse scars children for ever and a murder as foul as the innocent seven-year-old’s in Gurugram leaves the parents with a life full of pain & utter devastation!”
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