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Mum Furious After 12-Year-Old Daughter Shown Taliban Execution By Teacher

Mum Furious After 12-Year-Old Daughter Shown Taliban Execution By Teacher

A supply showed a film to a class of 12-year-olds.

Claire Reid

Claire Reid

A mum claims her 12-year-old daughter was shown violent videos of a Taliban execution, including a headless corpse and a prisoner being shot in the head.

Laura Ingham said she was horrified when her daughter Abigail came home from school and told her a teacher had shown the class footage of shootings and floggings during an English lesson.

Students at Beckfoot Oakbank School, Yorkshire, were shown a documentary about Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by Taliban on her way to school and went on to become a Pakistani female education campaigner and Nobel Prize winner. However, Abigail claims that the class were not warned about the film's graphic content.

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Abigail told her mum that when some students complained the supply teacher in charge, told them to look at the wall or write a letter explaining why they didn't want to.

Laura said: "I felt sick to my stomach when she told me what they'd watched.

"I wanted to see what she watched. Part of me thought she'd exaggerated it, but she really wasn't, it was sickening.

"Everyone was playing hell in the class. She said that students in her class asked the teacher to turn it off but he told them to look at the wall or sit and write a letter saying why they didn't want to watch it.

"Abigail mentioned it to her grandma when she stayed over after school that night.

"I think she was worried about having English the following day and having to watch that awful video of people being whipped and shot."

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Sarah Phillips, deputy head teacher, said the incident was investigated by the school and that the member of staff who showed the film no longer worked at the school.

She said: "Although the topic is relevant and important for young people to be aware of, we regret that the students viewed such images.

"We take our responsibility to safeguard our students very seriously and have updated a number of procedures within the school to ensure that such a situation is not repeated."

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Laura added: "I understand that people have to learn about other cultures but I wouldn't have Abigail, who is quite a sheltered child for a 12-year-old, watching anything like that with me, never mind at school.

"She has spoken about it quite a lot. We are quite open, I wanted to know that she was OK."

She also expressed concerns that as the teacher was a supply teacher, she could be at other schools, showing the film to other classes.

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