South Korea: Teacher fatally stabs eight-year-old in Daejeon

In a shocking event that has shocked the country, a teacher fatally stabbed an eight-year-old child at an intermediate school in South Korea.

The female instructor, who is in her 40s, confessed to stabbing the learner in the northern area of Daejeon, authorities said.

The girl was discovered on Monday at 18:00 local time ( 09:00 GMT ) with stab wounds on the second floor of a school building, and she was later declared dead at the hospital. The professor had stab wounds next to her that the officers said might have been self-inflicted.

On Tuesday, acting leader Choi Sang-mok of South Korea called for an investigation into the situation and forewarned the government to “implement required measures to ensure such incidents rarely happen again.”

Some neighborhood residents poured flowers and a placed doll at the school’s wall on Tuesday, which was closed.

The teacher requested a six-month leave of absence for depression on December 9 but, according to the Daejeon learning office, she turned in only 20 days after a doctor determined she was fit to work.

She did not have a connection with the learner, authorities said.

Weeks before the stabbing, the professor had displayed aggressive behavior, including putting another tutor in a chokehold, they said.

Two authorities from the education department visited the school on Monday, the day of the punching, to check that encounter.

The bus drivers informed the institution that the student had hardly arrived for pick up that night, and she was reported missing on Monday night.

After the professor recovers from operation, police said they would continue to question her.

The training office suggested that the teacher get taken off and actually separated from the other teacher after the attack on the coworker.

She was forced to sit next to the evil principal’s desk for the purpose of keeping her watch closely.

She had also not been teaching any lessons since her depart in December, and did not have any email with the eight-year-old scholar, the official said.

South Korea has strict weapons crontrol laws and is generally healthy. But in recent years, it has grappled with many high-profile crimes, including violence.

” Seeing this affair hurts me because a school may be our safest place,” said acting leader Choi. ” I extend my heartfelt condolences to the family of the victim, who went through a lot of horror and agony.”