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Barbados: School teacher shown in shocking video says it was only a prank
By Antillean, Monday, December 28, 2009

A video clip circulating on the Internet called "Barbados Flogging, Brutality, Coach Of St Leonard’s Boys’ Cricket Team Goes Wild On Bad Students" with a teacher brutalising two boys with a belt in a room is alleged to be a hoax.

According to the teacher, Michael Franklin, who was named in the video, as well as two parents, one of whom is the mother of one of the boys in the video, it was all a prank.

The video uploaded onto YouTube.com showed two boys receiving blows all over their hands, heads and shoulders with other voices in the background filming, talking and some chuckling.

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