‘I was dragged by the hair, slapped in face, punched’

The teacher who was attacked by a parent at school last week is irked by what she claims to be a tamer version of events that emerged in court. A teacher for the past three years, Nadine Piscopo, 26, said she was dragged by the hair along the corridor, slapped in the face, punched in the tummy and pushed to the ground. “It was a humiliating experience,” the English teacher at St Ignatius secondary boys’ school in Tal-Ħandaq said. Ms Piscopo said the attack was so vicious she even found a bracelet charm belonging to the woman stuck in her dishevelled hair. “The police told me to bring the charm to court as evidence but I never got the chance to speak, let alone show the charm in court,” she added. Her attacker, Rosarita Galea, 36, from Siġġiewi, was charged in court a day after the incident occurred. Ms Galea admitted to slightly injuring Ms Piscopo by pulling her hair. She was conditionally discharged for two years. But the teacher is flabbergasted by the allegation made in court that she pulled her student’s hair, an incident that is supposed to have provoked the woman. Ms Piscopo completely denies ever pulling anybody’s hair. She explains that a day before the incident the...