“He dragged me into his office and slammed his door behind him and said, ‘I’m going to teach you a lesson.’ Then he slapped me across the face. I started crying. He pushed me by the throat and I fell back against the bookcase. He pulled me by the arm and pulled me over his knee. He was kneeling on the floor. He pulled my skirt up and hit me about twice. Then he pulled my knickers down. He hit me across my bare bottom. He kept hitting me until I said I’m telling my mum and dad about you. He put his hands on my shoulders and said, ‘I love you more than any other kid in this school. You need not tell your mum what happened.'”
Earlier, the court was told by a mother whose daughter was spanked in her presence that West seemed excited by the beating. “It was brutal,” she said.