The perpetrator of the rape at Aung Myay Thit Private School in Taunggyi has been arrested and that the school will be prosecuted under the Private Education Law and Regulations according to the National Defence and Security Council Press Office.
The perpetrator was arrested at Taunggyi No. 1 Police Station on January 18. The victim is scheduled to take the university entrance exam as an external exam at the request of the victim, and that Aung Myay Thit Private High School will be prosecuted under the Private Education Law and Regulations, the press office told the media.
The incident occurred at around 12:30 pm. on January 15. A Grade-12 student at Aung Myay Thit Private High School in Taunggyi Township, Thittaw ward, asked the teacher for permission to go back to the dormitory because she had a headache. At around 1 pm., the school principal’s son, Zarni Thway, arrived and raped the student against her will.
“It happened to my friend. It seems that my friend has been sick since she went to school on the 15th. Last night, we studied until 3 am, so when we went to school in the morning, she felt dizzy and uncomfortable. After lunch, she told me that she would go back to the dormitory and sleep for half the day. The icndident occurred that time. She was asked for 2 million baht by that man. She was also forced to take indecent photos and sexually assaulted. I can’t even describe how much she feels when something like this happens. When we came back from school in the evening, she hide under her bed and said she wanted to go home. She was shaking all over, saying the same things over and over again, and she was crying. Even though we didn’t know anything what was happened at that time, we felt really sorry for her,” a student at the school wrote on her social media.
There are approximately 400 students studying at Aung Myay Thit Private School, and local private schools there have announced on their social media pages that they will provide free assistance to students so that they do not have any difficulties in taking the exam.
