ACT PH: Raffy Tulfo should be held liable for harassment
Credit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 06:36:14 +0000
A group of teachers on Monday condemned Raffy Tulfo’s harassment and bullying of a public school teacher on national television over an alleged “child abuse” incident.
In a statement, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines said that Tulfo should be charged.
“The trial by publicity launched againt Ms. [Melita] Limjuco was unfair, malicious, and injudicious,” ACT Philippines said.
“As such, we demand that Mr. Tulfo be administratively and legally held to account for his actions,” the group added.
Limjuco, 55, was featured last week on Tulfo’s TV show after a student’s relatives complained of alleged child abuse.
The student’s grandmother sought Tulfo’s help after the teacher was seen on closed circuit television (CCTV) footage sending a boy out of a classroom. The child’s family claimed the boy “was traumatized” and “humiliated” because of the teacher’s action.
During the program, the staff called Limjuco who apologized, but the child’s family wanted her punished through revocation of her license.
Tulfo then asked the teacher to choose between facing a child abuse case – which is a criminal case – or resigning from her job.
The Department of Education pledged that due process will be given to both the student and the teacher.
“DepEd takes care to ensure that both the learner and the teacher are treated with dignity and respect through policies and processes already existing at all levels of governance of DepEd,” the department said in statement. Jan Arcilla