May 07, 2021
A handout photo. It took seven operations to remove the blood that had accumulated in the child’s brain after the incident.
South China Morning Post
A primary school teacher in central China has been arrested for allegedly pulling the hair of a nine-year-old boy so hard the child’s skull was partially scalped and left him with severe internal bleeding and swelling.
The teacher, surnamed Chang, violently pulled the boy’s hair after noticing him talking in class, news platform thecover.cn reported.
Police in Pingdingshan in Henan province placed Chang in detention last Saturday (May 1), the report said. Doctors said the boy’s scalp and skull were separated in the incident and that the bleeding had filled part of his brain.