Russian law enforcement agencies are looking into an incident in east Siberia's Irkutsk Region after videos posted on the web showed high school students beating up their old teacher during physical education classes, Russian media reported.
The woman, aged 73, suffered from sclerosis and the following day could not remember what had happened the previous day. Other teachers of the school in the town of Shelekhov said they had long known about the victimizing, but that the school director banned them from telling anyone.
One video even shows the students wrapping the teacher up with a volleyball net and kicking her around like a football.
As soon as the story gained publicity through journalists, the director was fired.
The teacher, Yelena Ivanovna, was shown the videos but could not believe her eyes. "Is that me?" she asked.
"Children could not do that," she said and burst into tears.
MOSCOW, March 24 (RIA Novosti)
