'Group Abuse of 11 Children Including Disabled Kids'.. Incheon Daycare Center Director and Teacher Appeal

Childcare teachers who were sentenced to imprisonment for habitual abuse of 11 children, including those with disabilities, and the director who neglected their abuse have filed an appeal. The photo is unrelated to specific expressions in the article. [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyun-joo] Childcare teachers at a daycare center who were sentenced to prison for habitual abuse of 11 children, including children with disabilities, and the daycare center director who neglected their abuse have appealed the first trial verdict.

According to the Incheon District Court on the 8th, three childcare teachers, including A (21, female), who were arrested and indicted on charges of violating the Special Act on the Punishment of Child Abuse Crimes, were recently sentenced to 1 to 1.5 years in prison in the first trial and have appealed. The then director of the daycare center, B (46, female), who was indicted without detention on charges of aiding and abetting the childcare teachers' abuse (violation of the Special Act on Child Abuse) and sentenced to 4 years in prison, was also detained in court and submitted an appeal to the court.

Another three childcare teachers who participated in the abuse have not appealed as of this morning. However, since the appeal period of one week after sentencing remains, the other defendants may also appeal.

Six childcare teachers, including A, are accused of habitually abusing 11 children aged 1 to 6, including six children with disabilities, at a public daycare center in Seo-gu, Incheon, from October 30 to December 28 of last year. They committed abuse about 200 times, including both individual and joint offenses, by physically assaulting the children.

B, who was the director at the time of the incident, was indicted on charges of aiding and abetting the habitual abuse by the childcare teachers.

The childcare teachers hit the children’s thighs or forearms with fists or palms and sometimes grabbed their hair, citing reasons such as not taking naps or crying during their meal times. Closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage from the daycare center showed childcare teachers pushing a child into a blanket cabinet and closing the door, or swinging a cushion in the air at a child with disabilities.

Among the children with disabilities, a 4-year-old child had a severe brain lesion disability, and the other children suffered from speech and developmental disabilities or autism spectrum disorder. Among them, a 5-year-old child with speech and developmental disabilities was abused 115 times over two months by their homeroom teacher.

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