MONROVIA – A six-year-old girl has been expelled from the Tyneceploh Education Foundation accused of being a witch.
The school is located in the Rehab community, a few minutes’ walk from the President’s residence.
The school stopped little Catherine Karma from attending classes on ground that she would initiate other students into witchcraft.
The Kindergarten student is among the first batch of students to enroll in the school when it was established last year.
“My friends lied on me to my teacher so they say I should not go to school again. Every day, when I see my friends going to school I can be crying. I want go back to school, I missed my friends and my teacher,” the six-year-old said.
“My friends in my yard can’t play with me again, they are afraid of me, only my small brother and me can play,” the child added.
Little Catherine commonly known as Nan is being bullied and referred to as a witch. Sources hinted that few parents in the neighborhood have stopped their children from associating with her.
Catherine’s grandma who sells boiled cassava and coconut to pay her school fees could not hold back her tears as she explained “How can this six-year-old child kill her teacher, principal and soak her classmates’ blood? I took care of this child from baby because her father is not working. I have never seen anything relating to witchcraft about my grandchild.
“I was on my way to the school on Tuesday morning, I received a call from my daughter’s teacher only known as Ruth that I should go on the campus. They want see me, so I passed on my daughter’s campus to find out what happened. Shockingly to me, I was told to take my daughter home,” Christiana Williams mother of the six-year-old explained.
She added, “When I got on the campus, I met my daughter’s class sponsor, the principal and the proprietor who told me that my daughter’s classmates told their teacher that Catherine said she will kill the teacher, the principal and soak them in the children’s blood. For this reason, she will not attend the school again. The next day, my auntie and I went on the campus to appeal for Catherine to end the school year but they told me that the decision is final.”
The proprietor of TYNECEPLOH Education Foundation, Napoleon Chattah confirmed that the child was expelled from the school for a reason but could not give details for.
He said, the principal was the rightful person to explain the expulsion but was not available to provide comments, even after three hours of waiting on him.
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