Teacher accused of gagging pupils
A Chilean teacher has been accused of silencing his nine-year-old pupils by taping their mouths shut.
Parents of five youngsters at a school in Barros Arana, Araucania, accused Salvador Veraga of gagging their children.
La Prensa online reports the parents claimed their children suffered sleeping problems and bed-wetting.
Vergara denies the charges and says he was just playing a game with the students by encouraging them to communicate through signs.
A police spokesman said: "That teacher is not very psychologically prepared to handle kids.
"We might think it is funny what he did, who wouldn't like to do that to kids sometimes?
"But it is a serious accusation and we are taking it seriously."
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