A pupil who was arrested for shooting his school's principal allegedly had intentions to also harm two other teachers.
The MEC confirmed the pupil's appearance in the Germiston Magistrate's Court on Monday.A pupil who was arrested for shooting his school’s principal allegedly had intentions to also harm two other teachers, says
The legislation also says that a child under the age of 14 years may not be sentenced to imprisonment, which “should only be used as measure of last resort and only for the shortest appropriate period fine”.@matomekopano “The child would has to go under a lot of rehabilitation where we are all comfortable because we have seen within our own research that children tend to have a repetitive behaviour.
“There’s need to be some form of authorisation or approval from one of the professionals, be it a social worker a psychiatrist, that actually gives us assurance as the department that this child has gone through a particular restorative process and they can be accepted back into the system as opposed to just moving the child from one school and then searching for another.
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