The Acquittal of a school supervisor who forced a student to walk barefoot

Sharjah Federal court of Appeal acquitted an Arab woman who worked as a supervisor in a private school due the lack of evidence against her, from the charge of forcing a student to walk barefoot during the afternoon which resulted in his feet being harm.
The Court of First Instance had penalized her an amount of AED10,000 for the charge of endangering the life of a student as well as obliged her to pay fees and referred the civil case to the competent court.

The defendant denied the charge while the lawyer Youssef Mohamed Ibrahim Al-Mazmi, requested the acquittal of his client and stated that the court of the first instance cited the statements of the victim’s father and his statements about facts that he did not witness.

Al-Mazmi stated that all the corridors and the yard inside the school and even the corridor leading directly to the bus are shaded and protected from sunlight and covered with heat-insulating plastic. The student’s father had filed a case against the school supervisor stating that she forced his son to take off his shoes, attended the last class barefoot, in addition to walking at noon without shoes, and that his son went to the supervisor after the class had ended to take his shoes, but she humiliated him, so he walked to the bus barefoot.