In Kamchatka, a speech therapist hit a child with Down syndrome during a lesson.
A video in which a 10-year-old To Dima Loginov the speech therapist slaps, Appeared On December 5th, on Kamchatka social media, Dima has speech difficulties and needs private therapy with a specialist.
The boy's parents noticed that he was refusing to attend speech therapy. His mother heard a slap outside the speech therapy room, after which the child began crying. The speech therapist attributed this to the child's tantrums. The parents decided to investigate what was really going on during the sessions and installed a hidden camera. It was then discovered that the speech therapist was being rough with the child, hitting him in the face.
The speech therapist tried to publicly justify herself: “It happened completely by accident, we were waving our hands and that's it. I got scared myself, apologized, and I feel terrible. I apologize.».
However, the boy's mother, Anna Loginova, She didn't believe her and didn't accept her apology. She had the child's injuries documented by a doctor and filed a police report.
The Kamchatka Investigative Committee has opened a case against a speech therapist and is conducting an investigation.
«According to preliminary data, during the provision of individual paid services under a contract concluded in February of this year, the 54-year-old suspect used violence against a 10-year-old child who, due to his speech impairment, was unable to communicate what was happening.», - says in the department's message.
The video of the slap quickly spread across Kamchatka social media, causing a stir, and even colleagues came to the aid of the speech therapist. have been named the boy was uncontrollable, in their opinion the slap did not cause any harm, but merely “shaked up” the child and brought him “into the proper learning state and mindset for the proper learning process.”
The boy's parents want to see the speech therapist punished so that "the city knows who children shouldn't be taken to for private lessons, who it's dangerous to leave them with, and so that such a story doesn't happen again."
Video: Region 41.