Egyptian Math Teacher sentenced to six years for killing pupil.

An Egyptian court has sentenced a school teacher to six years in jail for beating a pupil to death because he had not done his homework. Maths teacher Haitham Nabeel Abdelhamid took Islam Amr Badr outside the classroom and hit him violently in the stomach. The 11-year-old boy fainted and later died in hospital of heart failure in the city of Alexandria. The court was told the boy had four broken ribs. Abdelhamid was convicted of manslaughter. He said he only meant to discipline the pupil and did not mean to hurt anyone.

(SOUNBITE)(Arabic) SLAIN BOY'S FATHER, AMR BADR IBRAHIM, SAYING: "He gets six years for killing my son? This is injustice! Those people are apostates in reality. I give these people over to God's judgement. I give these people over to God's judgement. If you want to get revenge for my son, he beat my son, I will go to beat. He killed my son, I go kill him. You want me to be a barbarian? The easiest thing is for me to be a barbarian. And I will get my son's rights. This failure of judiciary and this court doesn't bother me. But I will take my son's rights according to God's law."

... Egyptian teacher who killed child receives prison term Hitting [children] is not banned in schools and my client did not break the law. ... Egyptian teacher who killed child receives prison term —Lawyer for Haitham Nabeel Abdelhamid