Frequent Cases of Child Abuse by Kindergarten Teacher throughout China

• Author: China Law Digest

In the afternoon of October 15, at the Blue Skies Montessori Kindergarten located in a secluded building on Nanhai West Street in the Yingze District of Taiyuan City, a female teacher slapped a 5-year-old girl in the face tens of times within a dozen of minutes. A monitoring camera revealed that other children were also subject to varying levels of violence. Parents of the abused girl revealed afterward that the girl was slapped only because she had been unable to add 10 and 1.

On October 24, a teacher of a kindergarten run by local residents of Wenling City, Zhejiang Province lifted a child by his ears in the activity room. The abusing teacher even asked another teacher to take pictures of the...