Former Teacher at Armenian Boarding School Pleads Guilty In

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A former teacher of a boarding school in Yerevan faced 18 months in prison on Wednesday after admitting @@@@ and physically abusing his students during his ongoing high-profile trial.

Levon Avagian pleaded guilty to corresponding criminal accusations following months of strong denial of any improper conduct. As recently as last summer, the Armenian police cleared Avagian of any wrongdoing and tried to prosecute instead a civic activist who had helped to trigger the @@@@ abuse scandal.
Mariam Sukhudian, a leader of the environment protection group SOS Teghut, worked, together with several other young people, as a volunteer at the school for children with special needs in April-June 2008. They said afterwards that some schoolgirls alleged abuse at the hands of Avagian.................
http://hyemedia.com/2010/05/12/former-t ... use-trial/
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