Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath is launch­ing a probe in­to al­le­ga­tions that a Form Two stu­dent was al­leged­ly abused and bul­lied by a fe­male Phys­i­cal Ed­u­ca­tion teacher at a school in the St Patrick Dis­trict.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the teacher al­leged­ly forced the child to pull down his pants.

In a Face­book post, the boy’s par­ent wrote: “My son is a stu­dent of Form 2:1. He was abused and bul­lied to­day by the phys­i­cal ed­u­ca­tion teacher of that form. He did not have his PE uni­form to­day be­cause of per­son­al rea­sons, so this teacher de­cid­ed she would hu­mil­i­ate him. He wasn’t the on­ly child who didn’t have the uni­form. She asked him what he had on un­der his school clothes. He said a t-shirt and box­ers. She then told him she want­ed to see. He told her a cou­ple of times he felt un­com­fort­able, but she in­sist­ed.”