CNDH Opens Investigation Into School Bullying After Teenager Locked in Cage dpera - Justice in Mexico
go to original July 19, 2014

Another bullying incident has led Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos, CNDH) to launch an investigation into the case. On June 30, Kevin de Jesús Calderón Díaz, a student at Carlos Pellicer Cámara secondary school in Emiliano Zapata, Tabasco, was allegedly thrown to the ground by fellow students, tied up with tape, and locked in a cage while at school.

According to the CNDH, Kevin (16) is a student with learning disabilities who is the subject of frequent bullying by his classmates, ranging from taunts and ridicules to physical aggression. Kevin’s parents said that the school’s director has not taken the necessary measures to stop the violence targeted against their son.

The CNDH has sent investigators to Tabasco to interview Kevin, his parents, and various teachers and administrators in the school. Visiting associates and psychologists have already interviewed the victim to investigate the abuse, as well as provide support to the teen. The school’s director is open to the investigation, and the CNDH has instructed the school to begin implementing precautionary measures against bullying to move forward.

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