KOTA KINABALU, Nov 3 — Police have confirmed they are investigating a primary school teacher for alleged rape of three of his students at a school in the east coast district of Beluran, Sabah.
Beluran police chief superintendent V. Sivananthan said the police were waiting for the lab results from the chemist department to see whether there was evidence of the suspect’s DNA found on the victims.
“If there is a DNA match found on the victims, then we can take further action and charge him,” said Sivanathan when contacted.
The suspect, has meanwhile been released on police bail, and has been immediately transferred from his post at the school.
Investigators believed that the teacher had been raping the students, aged between nine and 10 years old, since January in certain rooms in the school during their recess time.
The single teacher had allegedly told the students to enter a room one at a time to see him before he stripped and raped them. He also warned them against telling anyone.
A school staff member had lodged a report after noticing some peculiar behaviour from the children in July.
Sabah Education Department director Datuk Maimunah Suhaibul said she had the teacher transferred to a non-teaching post immediately after he was released by the police.
“We had him transferred out of the school in August, after he was released from police custody,” she said.
The students involved in the case are also undergoing counselling.
Recently, the headmaster of a school in Sabah was also investigated and transferred by the state education department for uploading pornographic content to a Whatsapp group.
The transfer was seen as too lenient and slammed by several groups who felt he should have been suspended and sacked immediately.
