Inappropriate relationship

Letters

IN 2018, a deputy principal of a school had sexual relationship with a female student who recently gave birth to a baby girl.
The teacher, when reported to police by the girl’s parents, paid compensation to the girl’s family.
The school authorities, the secondary school inspector and the division of education never took the case to the Teaching Service’s Commission (employer) but released the teacher on humanitarian grounds.
This is despite the TSC commissioner Baran Sori’s media statement that such teachers must be investigated and dismissed.
The teacher is now teaching at another secondary school, this time in Port Moresby.
What humanitarian grounds did the teacher use when having a relationship with the student and what guarantee is there that he won’t commit the same offence again?

Zual Mali,
Kavieng