On September 29, the family of a 10-year-old boy who drowned in Yuncheng County, Heze, Shandong, said he was beaten by his homeroom teacher on 10 of his 12 school days; the procuratorate declined to approve the arrest of the teacher involved on the grounds that the facts were unclear, and the lawyer will report the case to the higher-level procuratorate.
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