Teacher arrested for dating pupil

The Obuasi Police on Tuesday arrested a Junior Secondary School teacher for taking one of his pupils to a hotel, Mr Samuel Kofi Okyere, Adansi West District Director of Education (GES), has disclosed.

He warned that the GES would neither defend nor shield teachers, who harassed and sexually abused school children from prosecution. Mr Okyere, addressing a meeting of the district branch of the Conference of Heads of Basic Schools (COHBS) at Obuasi did not give his name nor details.

He said irresponsible acts such as sexual abuses tended to create image problems for the teaching profession and that everything should be done to check them.