ALOR STAR: A seven-year-old girl suffered bruises on her left ear after she was allegedly pinched by her teacher.
The girl, a pupil at a primary school in Alor Mengkudu near here, is believed to have sustained the injury during a class on Monday morning.
Her mother Nadia Hamzah, 35, claimed the teacher pinched her daughter's ear because she failed to repeat a word that she taught.
"My daughter is a slow learner and has difficulty speaking. Such a thing should not have happened," she said.
The seamstress, who lodged a police report on the incident on Monday night, hopes such an incident will not recur.