Sexual Predation in Porn Punishment?

Yesterday I read in the New Straits Times about a teacher in a secondary school in southern Johor forcing 13-year-old students to watch a pornographic video as a punishment for failing to do their homework. He ordered the students into the school's audiovisual room, closed the curtains and told them to watch the porn movie.

What had caught my eye was not just that it was an unusual punishment but more strikingly, the 10 students were of both sexes. Today I searched unsuccessfully for the article in both New Straits Times and the Star Online, but after some googling I finally found it in a South African newspaper.

Well, Education Minister Hishammuddin Hussein was livid with rage about the incident, and swore to punish the teacher severely if the alleged incident is discovered to be true. He ordered an investigation into the incident.

He said: "If there is concrete evidence of misconduct, we will not hesitate to mete out the appropriate punishment, including the sack."

Hishamuddin said that there is no room in the education service for teachers who resorted to such immoral forms of punishment.

Assuming for one instant that the allegations have been true, KTemoc believes it’s more than merely resorting to what the minister termed as immoral forms of punishment. I see more sinister motives behind such an action. When female students are involved, there could well be a grubby intention to expose one or even more of them to such graphic lewd sexual scenes to stimulate, excite and certainly corrupt young minds, perhaps to prepare them for easier seduction.

It’s OK for adults to see what they like but to deliberately involve young 13-year old female students in the viewing of a porn movie smacked of the doing of a sexual predator.

I am glad that the teacher’s name has not been mentioned because if it has not been true, then he won’t be unfairly penalised or shamed. But if it’s true, the Education Ministry must look into the incident as a possible case of sexual predation, and not just a weird immoral punishment by a gungho teacher.