Teacher drags attacker into police station only to see him go free

By JAMES GUMUNO
A primary school teacher assaulted by a policeman, took her assailant into the Hagen Police Station to seek help but was turned away without having the offender either arrested or charged.
The policemen on duty released the alleged offender without arresting and charging him, she said.
Cathy Willie, a teacher at Engnui Primary School in Hagen central, Western Highlands, said she was punched by a policeman on her right ear and above her eyebrow.
She told The National the incident happened on Friday between 1pm and 1.30pm in front of the Hagen Police Station.
Willie said she was walking on the footpath with her cousin when the policeman pushed her.
She said: “I asked the policeman why he pushed me but without saying anything, he turned around and punched my right ear and I fell down. When I got up, he punched me again on my forehead with a ring on his finger.”
Willie said she started to bleed from the wound on her forehead.
She grabbed her assailant by his shirt and took him into the police station.
“I pulled the policeman into the station where other policemen were working,” she said.
“They got my report and later released the offender.” She said she was not happy with the manner in which her case was handled at the police station.
A medical report from the Western Highlands Health Authority, dated March 5, said Willie suffered facial swelling and a black eye.
Senior clinician Peter Anjo said Willie also suffered transverse laceration on her upper eye brow, laceration on right ear with bleeding into the right ear canal and loss of hearing sense.
She sustained bruises on her knees and general body pain due to other blunt traumas.
She was referred to the ear, nose and throat clinic.
Police commander Chief Inspector Jacob Kamiak said yesterday that he had not yet received a report.
He said that investigation will start as soon as he has received the report.