Makkah Police are investigating a teacher of Arab nationality for punishing his six-year-old student with a wooden stick. The child named Ayoub suffered from severe bruising on his back and other parts of his body for not memorizing verses of the Qur'an. Doctors examined the boy and predicted it would take at least five days for him to recover. Lt. Col. Abdulmohsen Al-Maiman, spokesman of Makkah Police, noted that the child was beaten in a Qur'an memorization center in the Wadi Jalil neighborhood. In addition to the police investigation, the teacher was summoned by the mayor to explain his violent actions. Saud Muhammad, father of the child, said: “I was shocked at the brutality of the the teacher, and I immediately reported the incident to Al-Maabda police station.” __
