Mother of boy, 7, who had surgery to remove eraser tip from ear after bullying incident, vows to transfer son to new school

The mother of a seven-year-old boy who had to have a pencil eraser tip surgically removed from his ear after a bullying incident vowed on Tuesday to transfer her son to another school.

Despite assurances from the management, the parent felt the school had been “beating around the bush” with respect to her complaints, and that she had been kept in the dark about its investigation into the incident.

Education sector lawmaker Ip Kin-yuen described the incident as serious but stressed that time was needed for the school to get to the bottom of the matter as well as counsel those involved.

Police were alerted on Friday after the mother claimed that her son, a primary one pupil at the Church of Christ in China Hoh Fuk Tong Primary School in Tuen Mun, had been the subject of repeated bullying.

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Apart from someone sticking a pencil eraser tip in his right ear canal, the boy also complained of being poked in the eye and slapped in the face.

Doctors had to perform surgery on Saturday to remove the eraser. The boy has since been discharged from hospital, but hearing in his right ear is still temporarily impaired.