http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/0...ideo-to-students-could-face-criminal-charges/ Montreal police are conducting an investigation into a teacher who showed the video of the alleged murder and mutilation of Jun Lin to his Grade 10 students. The unidentified history and citizenship teacher at Cavelier-De LaSalle high school in the borough of LaSalle screened the grotesque scenes during his class on June 4, reportedly after a show of hands on whether students wanted to see it. Police believe the video depicts the actual killing, dismemberment and cannibalism of Mr. Lin, 33, a student from Wuhan, China who was studying computer science at Concordia University. A police spokesman has described the content as so disgusting that seasoned detectives forced to watch it as part of their investigation were left shaken. Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, was arrested last week in Berlin and is facing murder charges in connection with the killing. He is awaiting extradition from Germany. Montreal police said criminal charges are a possibility. Were going to take a look at it now, Commander Ian Lafrenière told The Gazette. But he said he wouldnt say that someone will ultimately be charged. We dont know. Well be questioning people. Well be looking at different possibilities and well see, he said. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Facebook Jun Lin was brutally murdered and dismembered in Montreal last month. A video circulating on the Internet is believed to show his killing. A Montreal teacher has been suspended after showing the video to his students. The type of charge that Lafrenière said could result falls under the offences tending to corrupt morals in the Criminal Code. In a statement Wednesday, the Commission Scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys, the school board responsible for the school, said it and the schools administration condemn with a single voice the action of a teacher who showed his students a video with content as inappropriate as it is offensive. The teacher, described as being about 25-years-old, was suspended with salary as soon as the administration learned of the screening. The school immediately made a team of psychologists and counselors available to students traumatized by what they had seen. That same day, the board said, the teacher apologized to the school through an email. A decision on final disciplinary action will be made following Wednesdays hearing with the labour-relations officials from the school board. Umm, so, first there has to be a Labour relations meeting, when the public is outraged with this kind of act? Really??? You damage children's psyche, are supposed to be the responsible one, and yet, seem to miss the part that CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE EXPOSED TO MURDER!!!! http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/0...agnotta-murder-video-to-montreal-class-fired/ MONTREAL The teacher who screened a video that police allege depicts the murder of Jun Lin at the hands of Luka Rocco Magnotta has been fired, the Marguerite Bourgeoys school board announced Thursday. The unacceptable nature of the teachers action demanded an unequivocal response, school board chairwoman Diane Lamarche-Venne said in a statement. The 29-year-old teacher showed students in his Grade 10 history class the gruesome video on June 4 after they voted in favour of seeing it by a show of hands. The video shows a naked, bound victim being stabbed with an icepick, decapitated and dismembered. Students had circulated a petition demanding that the teacher keep his job, saying they were the ones who had asked to see the video. A protest was held outside the west-end Cavelier-De LaSalle High School around lunchtime today while much of the student body has signed a petition calling for the return of the teacher. Good job, hope he's charged too.
Is the teacher fired yet? Is the teacher charged with child endangerment yet? Is the teacher still allowed to be within 50 feet of children? He apologizes with an E-Mail? Really? What a tool.
Its ok for college but not kids in high school no matter if they want to see it or not. If teachers convince teachers to do what they want them to then there is no hope. "Hey teacher, we all vote by a show of hands that we want you to bring in dope so we can get high during class." This teacher is an idiot.
It was abhorrent when the story started with the teacher showing his students that video...now...We are to blithely accept that the students REQUESTED it? I'd expel the students as well if that is true.
10th graders, so they would have been about 16, and have probably killed more people in video games than Hitler. A reality check is probably a good thing, it's not like they're 5. They asked to see a video of a news item (odd that I hear this story about the teacher before I heard about the killing itself) which any of them could have pulled out their smartphone and viewed on the internet anyway. Is it the job of a teacher to conceal or suppress information? And the kids were just sooo traumatized that they are petitioning to have him returned. Grow up people, its 2012. They have seen worse things on MTV.
This was supposedly one of the most horrific and graphic killings posted online. What the OP article doesn't mention, is that the killer also had sex with the victim's corpse, then masturbated next to the body. Whether or not the students seen this portion of the video is irrelevant. This teacher should be banned from ever teaching again. WTF was he thinking?
How do you justify exposing anyone to that kind of violence, and then say it was probably a good thing? A reality check. What on earth are you thinking? So you want people to become desensitized? So numb to that kind of violence, that it becomes common place? If MTV starts showing videos with actual murders, they'd be pulled off the air. So how have they seen worse? In your ideology, kids can go to an abattoir, watch an animal slaughtered, and then immediately head to McDonalds...except that doesn't happen...they watched the movie "Super Sized Me" and never wanted to eat at McDonalds again.
