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Mother in China claims son suffers skin pigmentation loss after being slapped by teacher

Boy was hit in front of class for not completing his mathematics homework

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A mother in China has reported that her son experienced a loss of skin pigmentation after allegedly being slapped four times by a teacher. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/Douyin
Fran Luin Beijing

A mother in China claimed her son now has vitiligo, a chronic autoimmune condition that results in patches of skin losing pigment, after a teacher slapped the boy in the face for not doing homework.

The mother, surnamed Huang, said she took her son Liu, 11, to the hospital after noticing his face was swelling badly.

Liu, a pupil at Yifu Primary School in southwest China’s Yunnan province, told his mother that a teacher had hit him in front of the class.

The boy said the teacher brought him to the front of the classroom because he had not completed his mathematics homework. Then, the teacher slapped the right side of the boy’s face three times and the left once.

The boy’s face flushed bright red after the teacher slapped him three times on the right side, followed by a single slap on the left. Photo: Weibo
The boy’s face flushed bright red after the teacher slapped him three times on the right side, followed by a single slap on the left. Photo: Weibo

Three months after the incident, he began to lose pigmentation on parts of his skin. While the exact causes of vitiligo remain unclear, researchers suggest that environmental stress factors may contribute to the onset of the condition.

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